From Struggle to Strength: Self Recovery Success Stories

Discover real stories of breaking free from addiction and reclaiming a healthier, more fulfilling life.

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Suspicious About AA and Traditional Rehabs? You Are In The Right Place.

It’s not you who is broken, it’s the outdated model. Only 1 in 15 people are still sober 1 year after completing a traditional recovery treatment.

12-Step/AA and other traditional programs often fail because they focus on surface-level symptoms without addressing the deeper reasons behind your behavior. They put you in a box, micromanage your every move, force you to publicly declare that you’re an addict, and kick you out if you relapse.

Your choices shouldn’t be this bad.

Traditional Treatments Are Complicated and Don't Work

Focus on surface behavior
Shame and blame around mistakes
Major financial cost
Leave job and family to attend
Uncertain progress in a closed setting
Rigid and micromanaging
Require public confessions
Low success rates with lifelong relapses
Count days of abstinence
Often undertrained providers
Accountable to sponsors and groups

Self Recovery Makes The Process Simple and Works

Focus on root causes of addiction
Curiosity and acceptance around mistakes
<1% the cost of rehab
Easy to fit into real life schedules
Confident changes while in your real life
Respects your dignity
Private, you tell what you want to tell
Proven results built on true changes
Fundamental shifts in character
Led by an nationally recognized physician
Accountable to yourself for lasting change

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Meet Some of Our Participants

John R.

“I always thought it was: quit doing the drugs, get off the drugs, and everything would go back to normal. Sure enough [Self Recovery] did work, because now I’m sitting here years later and I’m doing… great.” – John R.

Sam S.

“My life before treatment, I felt like I was being buffeted by unseen forces. I think that [Dr. Hochman’s] approach to dealing with issues is quite insightful. How to understand what forces are compelling you to behave in certain ways.” – Sam S.

Sarah T.

“I lost hope because everybody lost hope in me. I could definitely tell that [Self Recovery] was going to be different. I had the feeling right away. It has you asking questions to yourself so that you want to understand yourself.” – Sarah T.

Clint S.

“I didn’t feel like I was judged at all. I didn’t feel humiliated. Dr. Hochman’s system is able to take different aspects of all your life and really put them together in a way to where you can really get to the root of the problem.” – Clint S.

Read What Addiction Professionals Are Saying About Self Recovery

“We have a large population of patients that are part of our country’s opioid epidemic. Dr. Hochman has already been incredibly helpful to his individual patients. I am excited that he offers his approach through Self Recovery as an inexpensive tool for anyone to get back onto the road to recovery.”

“Dr. Hochman is a rare bird. He is extremely bright and yet also very empathetic… You will quickly notice he is not the type of psychiatrist who is pushing pills to fix a problem but rather the type who helps you build skills and insight to practice so you may not need a medication in the future. In talking with him, you may notice an IBM Watson type brain that is filled with research and best practices – which he is able to put into very simple and actionable points.”

“Dr. Hochman and I have worked closely together for a while and he has always shown such talent in treating addiction patients. My clinic turns to him and trusts him with complex addiction cases since he understands and can deal with the full range of causes of addiction, including the emotional aspects underneath it. I am excited he has created Self Recovery as a way for more of our patients to get his help. The program covers a way of looking at addiction from start to finish, and can be used for any type of addiction, whether it’s a substance or a process like gambling or sex.”

“As a family medicine physician and the medical director of a Community Health Center, I see first hand the challenges that face my patients who are affected by addiction. When a patient is motivated to access treatment for their addiction, the options available are often exceedingly expensive and disappointingly ineffective, leading to low rates of initiating treatment and high rates of relapse. Self Recovery is an innovative program that motivates patients to actively participate in their own care, an element of chronic disease management that has been recognized as a mechanism to improve outcomes in many other chronic diseases. Dr. Hochman has developed an evidence-based, self-paced, inexpensive, easy-to-follow curriculum which is unique in the field of addiction. I continue to be impressed with selfrecovery.org and am happy to recommend it to my patients.”

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Self Recovery’s program transformed their lives. Now you deserve your chance.