One of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.”

-Bell Hooks

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Sovereignty in Sobriety is a reclamation. A returning to yourself, your body, and the wisdom that lives within you. Each person's journey through recovery is intimate. And yet there is something profoundly powerful about witnessing and being witnessed by others with shared lived experiences, all walking their own path. Community and connection become medicine in themselves. This circle exists to show you the options available to you in your recovery, and to reconnect you with the innate wisdom, healing, and resilience that already lives within your being and body.

Trauma Release Exercises (TRE) is the rooted offering in this circle, guiding people into their innate wisdom and  healing in an accessible way.  TRE is a somatic practice, created by Dr. David Bercelli which is described as a body or body awareness practice to bring healing. “TRE® is an innovative series of exercises that assist the body in releasing deep muscular patterns of stress, tension, and trauma. Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises (or TRE®) is based on the fundamental idea, backed by research, that stress, tension and trauma is both psychological and physical.”  It is in engaging with this practice that clarity, connection, and an overall sense of peace is embodied.  Through the release of the muscular patterns of trauma, TRE elicits deep muscular relaxation and induces the body to activate the parasympathetic nervous system (the relaxation response).

Sovereignty in Sobriety is now held at FREE Recovery on the third Sundays of each month at 3:15 PM.


Program Outline

  • Opening Introduction and grounding techniques for a soft space  

  • Open discussion and community shares guided by topics and teachings based in,
    body awareness practices and root causes and solutions of addiction.  

  • Trauma/Tension/Stress Release Exercises

  • Reiki and AcuDetox are practices that will be in rotation and integrate the
    somatic or body awareness therapies. These holistic modalities create deeper self awareness and connection.

  • Closing shares with each other and the group for people to connect on their experience.

    We can provide this curated circle in schools, youth programs, residential treatment centers and sober living homes.

    Click here to learn more about our 10 week online immersive recovery journey.

  • "Lex taught me TRE a few years ago, and it changed my relationship with my body. I don’t think I had ever taken a full deep breath before doing that work with her. TRE unlocked emotions around feeling out of control that eventually softened into a grounded fierceness I didn’t know I had." -E.F

  • I would highly recommend Lex to any and all navigating this life and seeking a place of calm. She can help you get there." - C.B

  • As someone who continues to unwind and unravel/move through CPTSD to achieve deeper healing and restoration, I could not have been more grateful to stumble upon Lex & her offerings." -P.J