The Journey To Recovery Program

A unique, one-on-one counseling program for individuals:

beginning sobriety
feeling stuck in recovery
looking for a deeper, more meaningful way forward.

The Journey To Recovery Program

A unique, one-on-one counseling program for individuals:

beginning sobriety
feeling stuck in recovery
looking for a deeper, more meaningful way forward.

A different kind of counseling experience

With recovery, each person’s path is uniquely their own. The Journey To Recovery is a one-of-a-kind counseling program that helps you understand where you are right now — and clarifies what your next step in recovery looks like, based on your experience, needs, and goals.

A plan based on your needs, drawing on the following approaches:

Clinically grounded approaches

evidence-based addiction counseling
motivational and behavior-change strategies
practical reflection and recovery planning
relapse prevention

Creative and experiential tools

music as a pathway to insight and emotional connection
storytelling and metaphor for personal growth
guided meditation and mindfulness practices
practices for personal and spiritual exploration

Whether you're just beginning your recovery journey, or have already begun, but would benefit from additional support, The Journey To Recovery provides a roadmap for making recovery a transformational experience.

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“I'm not sure I ever would have survived my addiction if it hadn't been for what I got through this program.”

RACHEL E., FORMER CLIENT, NOW IN LONG-TERM RECOVERY

A Flexible Program for Every Stage of Recovery

The Journey To Recovery Program is a flexible support pathway that adapts to you — typically ranging from 1 to 3 sessions per week and lasting anywhere from 3 to 12 months, depending on your goals and stage of recovery.

It can function as:

A higher-structure support track for people who are newly sober, struggling to maintain sobriety, or returning to recovery
An ongoing growth pathway if you’ve completed treatment and want steady accountability, momentum, and support
A transformational coaching process for people in long-term recovery who feel stuck, want deeper work, or are ready for “recovery 2.0”

Your level of support expands or relaxes depending on your needs, your goals, and the pace that feels right for you.

What Your Journey Includes

A Supportive Process That Meets You Where You Are

Your recovery work with me blends clinical insight, symbolic work, practical recovery skills, and guided self-examination. Together, we build the internal foundation that supports sustainable recovery and real personal transformation.

Here’s what the Journey typically includes:

Weekly one-on-one sessions designed for clarity, insight, and personal transformation (Delivered entirely through Zoom.)
A robust curriculum for in-depth study and processing.
Experiential activities that accelerate insight and bring your experience to life
Daily recovery skills and support
Support between sessions
A pathway that adapts as you grow

PLUS

a complete music-based recovery program — videos, audio lessons, and a dedicated workbook
a complete meditation program — guided imagery, relaxation practices, and musical meditations for emotional balance

A Truly Unique Program

Where Clinical Recovery Meets Transformational Work

The Journey To Recovery Program integrates evidence-based clinical modalities from substance use treatment — including the Stages of Change and core relapse-prevention principles — with deeper work grounded in story, symbol, and psycho-spiritual development.

This approach draws on:

Decades of addiction counseling and lived recovery
Jungian and spiritual psychology
Music, storytelling, and symbolic imagery
Grounded, practical tools for real life

The creative work isn’t separate from the clinical work — rather, it’s how insight, motivation, and meaning become personal and lasting.

In many cases the program is designed to complement the work you’ve already begun in treatment or 12-Step recovery, giving those gains a place to grow through tools you can actually use beyond the therapy room.

The result is a recovery process that is both practical and genuinely transformational.

Your Journey, Your Way

Every person’s recovery unfolds differently.
That’s why The Journey To Recovery Program adapts to your needs, your pace, and the practices that resonate most with you — whether that’s storytelling, music, meditation, or studying alternative spiritual traditions.

An integrated experience

The most effective approaches for personal growth are those that include both a solid identification of goals, and a meaningful and productive way of reaching those goals. The Journey To Recovery acommpishes just that through an intentionally structured two-part process:

a. A Clear Clinical Foundation Comes First

We start by identifying what actually needs attention right now — whether that’s early recovery stabilization, relapse-prevention skills, family-of-origin patterns, emotional growth, or reconnecting with purpose and meaning.

This gives us a grounded, evidence-informed foundation to build on, and ensures we’re working on the right things at the right time, and creates motivation to move forward.

b. Then We Choose the Path — or Paths — That Resonate With You

Once we know what needs to be worked on, we tailor how we do the work — using the practices and modalities that speak to you most.

For some people, that’s working through story — using narrative and archetypal themes to make sense of their experience.

For others, it’s music, meditation, symbolic work, or exploring alternative spiritual traditions. We follow the pathways that help you feel inspired, reflective, and excited about your future.

"Many paths lead to the top of the same mountain."

— Chinese proverb

Your Journey, Your Way

An Integrated Experience

a. A Clear Clinical Foundation Comes First

This gives us a grounded, evidence-informed foundation to build on, and ensures we’re working on the right things at the right time, and creates motivation to move forward.

b. Then We Choose the Path — or Paths — That Resonate With You

Once we know what needs to be worked on, we tailor how we do the work — using the practices and modalities that speak to you most.

For some people, that’s working through story — using narrative and archetypal themes to make sense of their experience.

For others, it’s music, meditation, symbolic work, or exploring alternative spiritual traditions. We follow the pathways that help you feel inspired, reflective, and excited about your future.

"Many paths lead to the top of the same mountain."

— Chinese proverb

Finding Your Path

The Journey To Recovery is made up of an innovative array of approaches to personal growth and self-examination. Each module is guided by a clear intention, and we’ll work with the ones that resonate most with where you are right now.

Finding Your Path

Finding The Spark

Successful recovery is about motivation.

"He jumped up in the air, and when he did, off in the distance—he saw the Sacred Mountains..."

That line is from a story we use in The Journey To Recovery, where a "glimpse of the Sacred Mountains" becomes the spark that inspires the mouse in the story "go to to the Sacred Mountains.

The purpose of the Journey To Recovery is to help light a spark—that gets you fired up about moving forward on your own journey.

When you begin The Journey To Recovery, recovery becomes more than just “not using.” It becomes a path of meaning, inspiration, and transformation.

From taking the first steps toward sobriety to finding purpose in life, The Journey To Recovery offers a process that gives you what you need for real, lasting transformation — including:

✔️ Clarity & Insight
Understand your story, your patterns, and what your recovery is really asking of you.

✔️ Inspiration & Momentum
Reconnect with the spark — the part of you that wants growth, excitement about personal growth, and a life that feels like your own.

✔️ A New Way of Seeing Yourself
Shift from shame and struggle into meaning, strength, and personal truth.

✔️ Tools You Can Actually Use
Grounded practices for real life — reflection, ritual, music, meditation, story-work.

Finding The Spark

Successful recovery is about motivation.

"He jumped up in the air, and when he did, off in the distance—he saw the Sacred Mountains..."

That line is from a story we use in The Journey To Recovery, where a "glimpse of the Sacred Mountains" becomes the spark that inspires the mouse in the story "go to to the Sacred Mountains.

The purpose of the Journey To Recovery is to help light a spark—that gets you fired up about moving forward on your own journey.

A Clear Path Forward

When you begin The Journey To Recovery, recovery becomes more than just “not using.” It becomes a path of meaning, inspiration, and transformation.

From taking the first steps toward sobriety to finding purpose in life, The Journey To Recovery offers a process that gives you what you need for real, lasting transformation — including:

✔️ Clarity & Insight
Understand your story, your patterns, and what your recovery is really asking of you.

✔️ Inspiration & Momentum
Reconnect with the spark — the part of you that wants growth, excitement about personal growth, and a life that feels like your own.

✔️ A New Way of Seeing Yourself
Shift from shame and struggle into meaning, strength, and personal truth.

✔️ Tools You Can Actually Use
Grounded practices for real life — reflection, ritual, music, meditation, story-work.

Meet Your Guide

Jim Savage, LCDC, CADC

I’ve been helping people navigate addiction and recovery for more than thirty years — as a counselor, educator, program creator, and someone who has walked this path myself.

Early in my career, I relapsed into my own addiction. It forced me to reevaluate everything I believed about recovery. The Journey To Recovery grew out of that turning point — discovering, firsthand, what actually works, what doesn’t, and how real transformation happens from the inside out.

Over the decades, I’ve blended clinical skill with creative work — music, storytelling, symbolic depth, guided practices — to create programs that help people experience their own breakthroughs, not just talk about them. I’ve used The Journey To Recovery with clients for more than three decades, continually refining it as I learn from the people I work with.

I take recovery seriously. There’s nothing I love more than sharing this work with clients and watching you find the spark that moves you toward your own transformational journey.

And I also like to have a lot of fun doing this.

Ready to begin your own journey to recovery?

Let’s talk about what moving forward could look like for you.

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