RCA | What is Recovery Coaching
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What Is Recovery & Recovery Coaching?

Our Foundation. Our Values. Our Global Approach.

We Are All Recovering From Something

Recovery is human. It’s the process of rebuilding, realigning, and reclaiming life after challenge, stress, or transition.

Recovery is not limited to addiction or illness, it’s the capacity to grow, reconnect, and contribute. Recovery Coaching is a strengths-based, culturally adaptable approach that walks with individuals, families, and communities as they move from where they are to where they want to be.

Recovery Is a Journey, for All of Us

It’s about health, hope, purpose, and community.

Recovery is the process of building a healthy, meaningful, and purposeful life. It’s personal, cultural, and nonlinear.

Global Definitions:

  • CCAR: “You are in recovery when you say you are.”
     

  • SAMHSA: “A process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential.”
     

Recovery Includes:

  • Health – Informed choices and wellbeing

  • Home – A stable, safe place to live

  • Purpose – Daily meaning, contribution, and goals

  • Community – Connection, support, and belonging

What Recovery Is Built On

These values apply across cultures, systems, and sectors.

10 Guiding Principles:

  • Hope

  • Self-direction

  • Many pathways

  • Holistic care

  • Individual & community support

  • Empowerment

  • Respect

  • Cultural responsiveness

  • Service & contribution

  • Integrity & relational connection

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Coaching That Walks Beside You

 Not a therapist. Not a sponsor. A trusted guide.

Recovery Coaches support people across all walks of life, from prevention and resilience to long-term wellbeing.

They meet people where they are and walk with them, without judgment.

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Core Roles:

  • Build trust

  • Foster hope

  • Help people navigate choices

  • Promote growth and purpose

  • Respect all cultural and spiritual pathways

  • Encourage service, dignity, and giving back

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Common Titles Include:
Community organiser, advocate, mentor, motivator, companion, resource broker, role model

Recovery Coaching Is for Everyone, Everywhere

It works across borders, cultures, and contexts.

Recovery is the process of building a healthy, meaningful, and purposeful life. It’s personal, cultural, and nonlinear.

Recovery Coaching strengthens:

  • Prevention & early intervention

  • Emotional literacy & self-leadership

  • Family, workplace, and community resilience

  • Workforce development & capacity building

  • Systems transformation and relational care

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From the clinic to the classroom, the family to the boardroom,  recovery principles create change that lasts.

From Individuals to Institutions

RCA applies Recovery Coaching across:

  • Prevention & education programs

  • Leadership & workforce development

  • Community & systems transformation

  • Health, justice, business, and youth sectors

We adapt our work to reflect the cultural, regional, and organizational context, ensuring relevance, safety, and integrity.

Support That Serves People, Teams & Communities

  • Individuals seeking wellness

  • Families supporting loved ones

  • Educators and healthcare teams

  • Leaders shaping healthier organizations

  • Communities working toward resilience

Recovery Coaching works because wellbeing is universal.

Backed by Evidence. Rooted in Relationship.

  • Improves health and wellbeing outcomes

  • Strengthens service engagement

  • Reduces crises and justice involvement

  • Builds stronger family and workplace relationships

We combine global research with personal and professional experience, tailored to each culture, system, and story.

Global Standards. Local Wisdom. Human-Centered Care.

Training People. Strengthening Systems. Supporting Change.

At Recovery Coach Academy, we train individuals, families, communities, and organizations to create cultures of trust, wellbeing, and possibility.


Our work is grounded in human dignity and shaped by cultural intelligence. Whether you’re leading a team, supporting a loved one, or building systems of care, we help you integrate values-based practices that foster connection, resilience, and long-term impact.


We are providing more than training, we are supporting transformation that lasts.

Rooted in Family. Built on Care. Focused on What’s Possible.

We Lead With Legacy, Build With Heart

Recovery is the process of building a healthy, meaningful, and purposeful life. It’s personal, cultural, and nonlinear.

At Recovery Coach Academy, we see recovery as a universal human experience. Whether someone is navigating change, growing through transition, or rediscovering purpose, recovery is part of how we heal, connect, and move forward.


Recovery Coaching gives people the tools, language, and support to do that, in families, in communities, in workplaces, and across systems.


Our work is grounded in lived experience, family leadership, and a deep belief in human potential. As a mother-daughter team, we’ve witnessed how shared values, compassionate support, and relational care can transform lives and strengthen entire systems.


What guides us is simple: we believe in people. We believe in their capacity to grow, to lead, and to thrive, especially when given the space and support to do so with dignity and purpose.


Recovery Coaching is more than a method, it’s how we choose to lead. We meet people where they are, honor every story, and build structures that reflect care, clarity, and long-term vision.


Across all cultures, what unites us is our shared capacity to reconnect, rebuild, and grow, personally, professionally, and collectively. That’s the future we’re building, together.


What we do is professional. How we do it is personal.

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