A Recovery Community That Honors Your Whole Journey

Recovery’s Remedy is a supportive, trauma-informed community for people navigating recovery in a way that’s uniquely their own.

Whether you're abstinent, exploring harm reduction, working with psychedelics, or somewhere in between—you're welcome here.

We’re exploring a model of recovery that feels aligned and resonant for us—one that honors the complexity of our lived experience and feels sustainable.


Rather than rejecting or glorifying substances, behaviors, or altered states, we’re curious about how to be in right relationship with them. Many of the plants, chemicals, and coping strategies that have shaped our lives have brought both harm and insight, wounding and wisdom. We don’t ignore that complexity—we turn toward it with curiosity and interest.

Right relationship is not about control or avoidance. It’s about opening up, clarity, reciprocity, yielding and shared vulnerability. It invites us to become more available to trust—both in ourselves and in community. It supports the loosening of rigid frameworks that keep us locked in shame or false certainty and lead to suffering. It’s where healing and connection emerge.

Is abstinence the same as recovery? Can healing include altered states?

These are the kinds of questions that live at the heart of our inquiry. We don’t claim to have final answers—but we do believe they’re worth asking, together.

A Different Way of Understanding Addiction

At Recovery’s Remedy, we explore what it means to be in right relationship—with substances, behaviors, expanded consciousness, people, ourselves, the land and other-than-human beings.

This isn't about controlling or eliminating aspects of us.

It’s about listening more deeply.

We ask:

  • What is this behavior trying to protect?

  • What’s underneath the craving, the fear, the shut-down?

  • What relationship might I build with this part of me instead of trying to override it?

Right relationship invites compassion over control.

Curiosity over judgment.

Connection over isolation.

When we practice this together—in our nervous systems, in our words, in our community—we create the conditions for change that honors the wisdom of our experience.

  • Right relationship centers mutual respect.

    Between parts of self, between people, and with other-than-human beings (substances, emotions, creatures, land, spirit).

  • It is rooted in consent, attunement, and boundaries.

    Not domination, suppression, or denial.

  • It allows for complexity.

    Acknowledging that parts of us may have contradictory needs or longings.

  • It invites us to listen to symptoms as messengers.

    Not problems to be erased.

  • It makes space for repair and renegotiation.

    Knowing that rupture is natural and repair is possible.

  • It encourages dialogue over control.

    Curious questions instead of commands.

  • It honors agency and interdependence.

    We are both sovereign and relational.

  • It shifts the frame from “Is this bad?” to “What is this trying to tell me?”

  • It respects the sacredness of timing.

    That healing unfolds in its own rhythm, not on demand.

  • It reclaims relationship as the medicine.

    —not the obstacle.

Our group supports people on their recovery path by diving into topics like :

Addictive behaviors and patterns

Risks of relapse

Cravings

Harm reduction

Substance use, misuse and dependence

Sobriety vs moderation

Various recovery models and programs

Systemic pressures leading to overconsumption and addictive tendencies

Dissociation and checking out

Being in relationship with ourselves, substances and altered states

What you’ll walk away with:

A deeper relationship with your body & emotions through somatic check-ins.

Community connection that normalizes recovery and reduces shame.

Tools for integration—whether processing cravings, shame, or psychedelic experiences.

A renewed sense of ownership over your recovery journey.

Curious?

Join our next gathering.

Whether you’re near Portland or anywhere online, step into a community where your recovery is held—without judgment.

Not ready to join the group?

That’s okay. Healing unfolds in its own rhythm.

Sign up for reflections, practices & invitations from Recovery’s Remedy — a space where recovery meets compassion, complexity, and connection.

Upcoming Meetings

  • First Tuesdays

    7:00-8:00PM PST

    This meeting is held in person at the Rhizome located in Portland. For more information and directions click below.

    Attend

  • Second Mondays

    4:00-5:15PM PST

    This meeting is held online via zoom. Click below to register and get access to zoom link. We look forward to seeing you!

    Register

  • Third Fridays

    5:15-7:00PM PST

    This meeting is hosted through Portland Psychedelic Socieity. Click the link for directions and more information.

    Attend

Meet Your facilitators

Elizabeth and Julio have been collaborating at the intersection of addiction recovery and psychedelics since 2021. Together they have offered continuing education to clinicians, taught at graduate school programs, and created community spaces for people to experience support around psychedelics and addiction. Their vision is to continue growing the movement of people in recovery who use plant medicines to further their healing process.


  • Co-Creator

    Elizabeth Hoke is a person in long term recovery.  She is a mother of three and a therapist who has spent over a decade supporting people personally and professionally while they navigate addiction challenges.  Elizabeth began her own addiction journey at a very early age, and had a hard time staying in recovery, never feeling belonging in the treatment groups available.  She helped co-created Recovery Remedy to give people a non-judgmental place they could go that would allow them to design and share their recovery journey without shame or guilt and without being ostracized for not doing what others do for their recovery.  Elizabeth has also spent many years co-facilitating ketamine-assisted psychotherapy sessions at Rainfall Medicine where they specialize in addiction treatment, and currently teaches psychedelic education classes that focus on addiction and recovery at the Center of Community Engagement at Lewis and Clark College. 


  • Co-Creator

    Julio specializes in working with people navigating addiction recovery. He has served in community mental health centers, residential treatment centers, and has over a decade of experience supporting people in all stages of recovery. His approach is informed by somatic therapies, nervous system regulation, and the development of right relationship.

This gathering was created to offer support for people who already have an active healing process around their addiction and are looking for a community to share it with and get support from.

While it's not required that everyone be sober or abstinent from all substances, it is asked that everyone attending the group not be actively engaging with whatever substance that triggers the addictive behavior.

The intention for this monthly meeting is to give everyone a confidential and safe space to discuss their personal recovery path openly and build community.

This group is not a substitute for early sobriety support or crisis care.