Our Lifelong Mission And Values

Our goal is to provide our clients with the structure and life skills needed to transform themselves into a life free from addiction. The Chambered Nautilus Shell is a metaphor of our clients’ evolution to that life of freedom and upon successful completion of our recovery program, each client is given a Nautilus Shell necklace to remind them of how far they’ve come and that growth, in the right direction is a necessary part of life.

These fascinating seashells are spiral in shape and consist of a series of ever-larger chambers in each of which the sea creature lives for a season until it outgrows that particular space. The Nautilus then enlarges its shell by the addition of a new chamber suitable for the next stage of its life.

The spiral shape of the Nautilus shell suggests that it can keep growing forever. There is no design for a “final” chamber. The creature must keep building new chambers as long as it lives. It cannot go back to the previous ones; they no longer fit. It cannot stay in its present space or it will die. It has no choice but to move on— and on.