Fairview Housing

06/04/2026

We have a new crisis line number!

06/02/2026

06/02/2026

Save the Date!

We’re excited to announce the 3rd Annual Reviving Hope in Our Backyard, taking place on September 17, 2026, at the historic Lincoln Theatre in Marion, Virginia.

This event brings together community leaders, professionals, advocates, individuals with lived experience, and neighbors who share a commitment to strengthening recovery, fostering resilience, and creating healthier communities across our region.

Each year, Reviving Hope in Our Backyard serves as a reminder that hope grows when people come together with purpose, compassion, and a shared vision for the future.

More details, speakers, and registration information will be announced in the coming months. Learn more at https://ac4hope.org/reviving-hope-in-our-backyard/

05/27/2026

📢 It’s GROW time!! We are hiring a full-time Registered Peer Recovery Specialist to join our Peer Initiatives team at Bristol Lifestyle Recovery! 🏞

REQUIRED:
• Active registration with the Virginia Board of Counseling as a Registered Peer Recovery Specialist (one step beyond certification) 💎
• Minimum 1 year of peer support experience
• Strong professionalism, boundaries, and teamwork skills

✨️ Schedule needed: Thursday–Sunday, 10am–8pm 📅

We are proud to offer a developing and highly sought-after peer support implementation model within our Clinically Managed Residential Levels of Care, with strong emphasis on collaboration, mentorship, recovery culture, supportive supervision, and person-centered care. 💯

If you’re passionate about recovery, supporting others through lived experience, and want to be part of a unique, supportive, research-informed team model, apply today!! ❤️🖤

We are looking for a Peer Recovery Specialist (PRS) to round out our team! The Peer Recovery Specialist uses personal lived experience with mental health and/or substance use recovery to provide strengths-based, person-centered, trauma-informed, and culturally competent peer support to participants....

05/22/2026

🍝 A huge shout out to the Johnson City Junior Council for treating our residents to an amazing homemade Italian meal! 🇮🇹

These incredible young role models Amy and Owen prepared, served, and shared supper this week with our women at Susan's House. They were an absolute joy to have with us ⭐💚

Thank you for your kindness, compassion, and willingness to give back to the community in such a meaningful way!!

05/22/2026

Alexis Stanley joined us this week at Mended Women Lifestyle Recovery for our "Lived Experience Speaker Series" alongside our very own Randy Carrier. Alexis shared a deeply personal story of addiction, recovery, healing, forgiveness, and hope. Their journey together began in the chaos of active addiction, where they experienced incarceration, instability, pain, and hopelessness. Although their relationship ultimately ended, their recovery journeys became forever intertwined in a powerful and unexpected way.

Six years ago, Alexis made the decision to fight for a different life for herself and her children. Through the 12 Steps, recovery community support, and an unwavering determination to change, she began rebuilding her life from the inside out. What Alexis likely did not fully realize at the time was that her recovery would become a beacon of hope for someone watching closely: Randy.

When Randy was released from incarceration in 2021, he shared that seeing the transformation in Alexis gave him hope that recovery might actually be possible for him too. With nearly a year sober at the time, Alexis introduced Randy to the 12-step recovery community, and from that point forward, the trajectory of both of their lives changed forever.

Together, they shared openly about surviving trauma, addiction, incarceration, separation, and the difficult work of rebuilding trust and healing. Most powerfully, they showed our ladies what healthy co-parenting in long-term recovery can look like, proving that healing does not always mean reconciliation of relationships, but it can mean restoration of respect, peace, forgiveness, and shared purpose. 💙 Randy and Alexis believe that through recovery any couple can learn how to co-parent and be present for their children in a healthy way.

Recovery has a ripple effect. We truly never know who may find hope simply by watching the way we choose to live our lives. Just as hopelessness can spread, healing and forgiveness can spread too. One spark of recovery can ignite hope in countless others.

There was not a dry eye in the room last night. Thank you, Alexis, for your courage, your honesty, your example, and for continuing to carry the message of recovery throughout our community. You are a role model as a mother and an incredibly strong woman in recovery!! ✨

05/21/2026

Our IOP participants at BLR have been hard at work 💪 creating a beautiful new “Serenity Garden” as a space for healing, reflection, teamwork, and growth. 🌱🌻

Residents shared meaningful reflections throughout the project, including:

“Whenever I see things grow it makes me happy.” 🥰

“It shows a renewal in life and in recovery. Growth is so important.” 💯

“It brings people together through workmanship and teamwork.” 🤝

“It provides a place of peace and relaxation.” 🧘‍♂️

Emily, one of our amazing IOP counselors shared - “We are making our recovery beautiful for ourselves and others, and practicing leaving something better than how we found it.” 💙

We are incredibly grateful to Appalachian Resource Conservation and Development Council for providing grant support for plants, garden boxes, and tools, and to Blountville Hardware for helping with generously discounted supplies!

The first addition to the garden was an awesome rain barrel that will help support sustainable watering for the space 💦🛢

This project is a beautiful reminder that recovery, much like a garden, requires patience, care, connection, and hope! 🌿

Bristol Lifestyle Recovery is still gladly accepting donations of garden/landscaping related items for meaningful outdoor projects such as this. Send us a message if you'd like to help!