Eden Hill Recovery Retreat

Laina Okin
2 Star
Please read this in entirety, Eden hill is a nice clean home offering small group discussions, big book readings and art. We did not have a nutritionist on staff which I was originally told nor Equine therapy. The mandatory IOP program was late at night and most of us were too exhausted to really get what we should have. We had to eat and clean up dinner in 30 minutes on these nights and leave by 5:20 and not return till after 930 pm. This was three days per week. Also the guests are responsible for their own transportation, so if you bring your vehicle be prepared to drive your fellow residents without being compensated. We also take turns cooking and responsible for cleaning the entire home Most of the rooms are large enough but could use updating. . There are a few that are very small and the pricing is the same. There is a minimum of three people per bathroom and some have four. They have a psychiatric nurse and not a Psychiatrist who prescribes the medication, . lovely but doesn’t have the training or experience of an MD. I was only able to have a meeting with her on one occasion in two months as she was overbooked. They are owned /operated by High Watch Rehabilitation Center which highly encourages their residents to go there after rehab and a reason they are mostly full. I will say however our psychologist Dr. Diane Dillon was excellent and I benefited from her DBT therapy. I was in the program including High Watch Rehabilitation for a total of 3 1/2 months. ($45k out of pocket) Their plan for me was to stay until January 15 , go home 4 days for Christmas, returning Dec 26 but toward the end of December I felt ready to return home to my husband and children. When discussing this with staff learned I would not be reimbursed due to my contract for the remaining days (till Jan 15) I was upset and after arriving home felt it would be foolish not to benefit from the therapy I paid for. So, on Dec 22 I requested to return Dec 26 as planned . I was denied on December 23. My bed was unoccupied but I was flatly denied. This is unfair and unethical treatment after the long-term relationship I had built with the staff /fellow residents plus the extent of effort I put into the program including driving them far distances to meetings at my expense, which I never uttered a word, (i was also selected resident of the week by staff and also my peers 5 times) . Heres the scary part... In the first month of my residency, the staff informed me my personal toiletries were tampered with! All 3 staff members told me not to use any of my hair products for my own safety. What?? How could this happen or why?? I felt safe there, but not any more. I trusted this home This I heard is unusual for Eden Hill but frightening , potentially dangerous and unsettling for all of the residents.
Friday 21st January 2022

suzanne brady
5 Star
This was one of my lifetime BEST decisions I've made. When I stepped in the front door I felt a spirit that welcomed me home. Eden Hill always felt like my home and it still does. I cannot give enough praise to the women who run Eden Hill. Such a beautiful, compassionate, wise, selfless group who were always reliable. HighWatch Recovery and Eden Hill should be very proud. Thank you for such a wonderful recovery experience. I've learned so many coping skills and truths about the disease of addiction. I'm not ashamed anymore.
Wednesday 23rd June 2021

Tonya Jakubowski
5 Star
Phenomenal. Professional, personal, tailor-made individualistic programming. Very much a family atmosphere. Once you settle in, you will never want to leave. If I could live at Eden Hill, I would do it in a heartbeat. The term “staff” doesn’t adequately do justice to the Team of people who run and work at , Eden Hill in all capacities.They are personable, accommodating in anyway possible and loving. It is not possible to leave Eden Hill without feeling like your family has gained a few unofficial members. The accommodations are fabulous and newly renovated. Therapeutic communal living helped me to increase individual personal responsibility while at the same time learning to live with and compromise (perhaps for the first time) With my housemates. The clients form a bond that is therapeutic and supportive. We learn to hold each other accountable for their actions in recovery and other communal living issues in a kind and, if necessary, mediated way. Some of the tools I left with we’re effective communication, the development and use of boundaries, healthy confrontation (or “care-frontation”) and how to be a part of the solution instead of the problem. Most importantly I learned humility. I learned the world does not revolve around me and that to be successful in recovery and life, I need a support network which required working on my relationship skills. My circumstances did not allow me to participate in the family recovery events; however, I witnessed my peers and their families participate with what appeared to be excellent results. The Town-of Canaan is small, safe, charming, and has a large recovery network suitable for all ages. I have known many people that have gone through Mountainside treatment center in Canaan and then followed treatment at the extended care facility of Eden Hill Recovery Retreat in Canaan that have decided to remain in the area due to the Active and varied recovery community. Additionally, many of these individuals are still clean and sober and moving on with their lives. I myself am considering relocating to the Canaan area at some point in the near future for the above stated reasons. I cannot recommend this place more highly. Eden Hill is like a second home to me which I will forever remember as a very necessary, nurturing, and healing time. I have met some of the most wonderful, loving women in situations much the same as my own that I will forever treasure as sisters and friends On a journey you couldn’t possibly understand unless you’ve been on it too.
Friday 5th February 2021