N’ The Spirit Homes

About N’ The Spirit Homes

N' The Spirit Homes, based in Chicago, Illinois, is a recovery housing provider in Cook County offering holistic sober living for women.

N' The Spirit Homes and Its Approach

N' The Spirit Homes provides holistic recovery support services for women, combining spirituality, recovery coaching and life skills inside a single program rather than treating them as separate services. Holding those strands together under one organization means a resident is not assembling her own support from several providers at once.

Certification on the Illinois Register

The Illinois Association of Extended Care lists N' The Spirit Transformational Living as certified, a marker families can weigh alongside the operator's own description of what it does. Certification through the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences is something an operator applies for, so a place on the register reflects a step the organization chose to take and a family can verify.

What the Program Covers

The published program runs across spirituality, 12 step meetings held weekly as speaker or book study sessions, life skills, recovery coaching, aerobics and sober fun, which the operator describes as essential to the recovery process. Naming sober fun as a component of the program is unusual enough to be worth noting, because it treats the social side of a week as something to be organized rather than left to chance.

A Residence Designed Around Transformation

Inside its Chicago residence, N' The Spirit Homes gives each room the name of a spiritual attribute, and the program's emblem is a butterfly representing transformation. A house that carries its theme into the rooms themselves is making the program visible in the building a resident lives in.

Partnerships Across Chicago's South Side

Community partners named by N' The Spirit Homes include UMARC, the Illinois Department of Human Services, Healing Illinois, the Chicago Community Trust and the South Side Task Force, connecting this sober living operator to a wider set of South Side organizations. The Illinois Department of Human Services is the state agency responsible for behavioral health and recovery services, which places one of those partners inside state government rather than in the voluntary sector.