Break free from avoidance patterns and build an empowered life.

A coaching-based recovery program for individuals ready to break old patterns and build a life that feels aligned, empowered, and sustainable.

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150 clients
trained

1500+ sessions
coached

98% client
retention rate

Certifications
& specialties

Lasting change happens when your life aligns with who you’re becoming.

Our 3-Step Empowered Recovery Process

Turn disconnection patterns into clarity, confidence, and self-leadership

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Pattern Awareness

Understand what’s really driving your behaviors.

We help you identify the emotional, neurological, and values-based patterns behind disconnection behaviors like overuse, avoidance, emotional numbing, and self-sabotage. Instead of judgment, we build awareness — because your behaviors were once solutions, not failures.

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Nervous System & Insight Integration

Learn how your body and brain shape your choices.

You’ll learn how your nervous system, stress responses, beliefs, and past experiences influence urges, reactions, and habits. We translate neuroscience, emotional regulation, and mindset work into clear, usable tools so insight becomes embodied understanding — not just information.

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Aligned Action & Identity Shift

Create sustainable change that matches who you’re becoming.

We guide you in building daily practices, boundaries, and decisions that align with your values and future self. This step transforms recovery from “trying not to relapse” into living with clarity, confidence, and personal authority — so change feels natural, not forced.

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The Approach

Empowered Recovery is built on the understanding that lasting change doesn’t come from willpower alone. It comes from learning how your nervous system, identity, and daily choices work together — and building a life that supports regulation, clarity, and self-leadership.

This is not about fixing yourself.
It’s about creating conditions where healthy choices become natural.

The method


Understand the pattern

Identify the emotional and neurological patterns behind disconnection behaviors — without judgment.

01

Support the nervous system

Learn regulation tools that create safety, clarity, and real choice.

02

Live in alignment

Build daily practices and boundaries that support confidence, direction, and sustainable change.

03

The Empowered Recovery Course Book

A guided framework for clarity, regulation, and aligned change

The Empowered Recovery Course Book is the written foundation of the Empowered Recovery framework. Designed as both a learning guide and a practical workbook, it walks you through the core principles of nervous system–informed recovery, identity-based change, and sustainable, values-aligned living.

This is not a passive read.
It’s a companion you return to as you build awareness, strengthen regulation, and integrate new ways of living — one chapter at a time.

What’s Inside the Book

The Empowered Recovery Course Book offers clear, accessible guidance through a nervous system–informed approach to recovery, combining education with practical application. Inside, you’ll find guided reflections, journaling prompts, and tools for emotional regulation, boundaries, decision-making, and values-based living. Each section is designed to support identity shift and self-leadership, helping insight move beyond information and into embodied, real-life change. The book anchors each course module, providing structure, reflection, and integration — and can be used alongside the digital course or as a standalone resource for continued growth.

Choose Your Path

Whether you’re here for your own growth or to support others, Empowered Recovery offers clear pathways designed to meet you where you are.

Self-Study Course

For individuals

A self-paced, coaching-based recovery program designed to help you understand your patterns, regulate your nervous system, and build daily practices aligned with who you’re becoming.

Nervous System–Informed Education
✔ Practical Tools for Clarity, Confidence, and Consistency
✔ Self-Led, Flexible, and Real-Life Applicable ✔ 6 In-Depth Course Modules

1:1 Calls with an Empowered Recovery Coach. ⓧ Access to Our GROUP COACHING sessions

$997

Certification

For professionals

A certification pathway for coaches, peer supporters, and wellness professionals who want to ethically facilitate the Empowered Recovery framework with clients or groups.

✔ Trauma-informed, coaching-based curriculum
✔ Facilitator tools, worksheets, and group guidance
✔ Clear scope, ethical boundaries, and support

Work With a Coach

1:1 + Group Support

A guided Empowered Recovery experience for individuals who want personalized support, accountability, and deeper integration alongside the core curriculum.

✔ Six 1:1 coaching sessions with an Empowered Recovery Coach (Prairie Francia, Founder)
✔ Weekly guided group sessions for shared learning and integration
✔ Nervous system–informed coaching and values-based guidance
✔ Support with regulation, boundaries, and aligned decision-making

$2,997

Couples option $3,997

For Treatment Centers

Licensing & program integration

A structured, licensing-based version of the Empowered Recovery Curriculum designed to complement clinical treatment in residential, outpatient, and alumni settings.

✔ Psychoeducational, non-therapy framework
✔ Facilitator guides and client workbooks
✔ Scalable for groups, alumni, and continuing care

Facilitator Guide’s and Client Workbooks

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What People Are Saying

“I learned more about how to stay sober in one group about linking recovery to my values and identity than I have in over 20 years of attending AA. The 12 Steps have been an important support for me, but this group was life-changing. For the first time, recovery actually made sense in a way I can work with in my daily life. Thank you.”

— Former Client

“I’ve never thought about things this way before. I’ve been so stuck in blaming others — and myself — for everything. I never stopped to consider how I could reframe these experiences in a way that isn’t so self-destructive. This helped me step out of the blame cycle, and I finally feel ready for real change.”

— Former Client

“Thanks to you, I feel like I’ve been given a second chance to be the husband and father I was before the trauma and fear took over my life. I’ve learned tools that help me regulate myself, slow down my reactions, and process things before they get out of hand. This work has changed how I show up for my family.”

— Former Client

Get Started

We offer a recovery framework
designed for alignment.

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This is where understanding replaces struggle
and sustainable change becomes part of daily life.