Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4RysJspGE4 Starts at: 01:15:09 (jump to 01:15:09)
Sarah (Glass House Co-Founder) — Glass House Recovery Introduction
[01:15:09] Thank you so much. [01:15:15] I didn’t want to… I know you guys take your role seriously. [01:15:19] You got an H in your diagnosis. I know you wanted to introduce people. [01:15:24] So, yeah, who I’m bringing up right now is my partner, Sarah. [01:15:35] She had no idea she was going up there until two seconds ago. [01:15:38] Yeah? [01:15:39] You don’t want me to rap at all, so I won’t. [01:15:42] So, yeah, I guess I’ll introduce Glasshouse. [01:15:45] So, you know, as an adult, we have the normal level of chaos in our brain of, like, bills and stress and job and work and life balance and, you know, all that kind of stuff. [01:15:57] And then you throw substance use disorder into the mix, and then there’s a whole other level of stress, whether it’s that or addiction, something else. [01:16:06] So then you’ve got a second conversation. [01:16:08] And I… [01:16:09] And what Steve and I and our team found is then throw, like, creativity, hyperintelligence, independent thinking, problem solving into it. [01:16:18] And now you’ve got, like, yet a third level of conversation. [01:16:23] So when we created our facility, it was really to address that. [01:16:26] And so what that might look like as an artist or creator is, hey, I am just trying to get clean and sober, but my whole career is playing in bars. [01:16:36] My whole career is staying up all night. [01:16:39] I’m just trying to get this painting out of my system. [01:16:41] It looks like I’ve got to get out on the road and write and write and write. [01:16:45] But, like, how do you balance that with people saying, be responsible or get a full-time job or stay out of places with alcohol, but also that’s how I make my money, or stay out of places that have you ride a manic wave to get an entire exhibition up in time, but also that’s how you feel alive. [01:17:07] Right. [01:17:08] And so we… [01:17:09] We look at our curriculum and our facility and all of our therapeutic approaches by trying to speak somebody’s native language. [01:17:17] And sometimes that native language is color. [01:17:19] Sometimes that native language is music. [01:17:21] Sometimes it’s writing. [01:17:23] Sometimes it is meeting people where they’re at on an energy and a diagnosis. [01:17:28] And it’s really not about treating somebody who is getting newly stabilized, newly clean, newly sober, and pushing them into a hospital-like facility. [01:17:39] But it’s about creating an environment, an approach, and a schedule that really meets who they are. [01:17:46] The idea is we’re not the facility for everybody, but for a certain group of people. [01:17:50] And honestly, this is a treatment facility that I wish existed when I got clean a long time ago, when all I knew is that the only thing that made sense was me, like, going through a recycling bin and collaging pieces of Coca-Cola boxes, because art still made sense. [01:18:07] Nothing else did. [01:18:08] Work scared me. [01:18:09] Normal people scared me. [01:18:10] My family scared me. [01:18:11] Recovery scared me. [01:18:12] All of that. [01:18:13] But, like, art still somehow in there made sense. [01:18:16] That was one part left untarnished, unmarred by my addiction. [01:18:21] And so we’ve created a house that’s safe for those people. [01:18:24] We’ve created… [01:18:25] We’re starting to create halfway housing that’s safe for those people. [01:18:28] And so that’s Glass House. [01:18:31] We couldn’t be more proud to be here, to be part of the mental health community, to be part of the conversation about, like, what stigma means. [01:18:39] What somebody in recovery looks like. [01:18:41] What this diagnosis looks like. [01:18:42] What this condition looks like. [01:18:44] What we’re capable of. [01:18:46] And what it looks like to support an artistic community that has all of these different diagnoses within it. [01:18:52] So, I will do nothing artistic up here other than smile at you. [01:18:58] You guys look great. [01:19:00] This is super cool. [01:19:01] I’m happy to be here. [01:19:02] And thanks for giving me a chance to talk about Glass House. [01:19:09] Wow. [01:19:16] Incredible, right? [01:19:17] Round of applause again. [01:19:19] Again. [01:19:21] Okay. [01:19:26] GlassHouseRecovery.com. [01:19:28] That’s the CEO of me. [01:19:29] I forgot to plug the website. [01:19:32] You had way too much time, sir. [01:19:35] Hey, give it up for him one more time, y’all. [01:19:37] Give it up for him. [01:19:38] Yes, yes, yes. [01:19:39] Here’s your sheet, Michael.