The WatershedReviews of thewatershed.com

It has been more than 7 1/2 years since I have leaned on my own Watershed experience. Since then, I have referred even more. To this day, I can still make a call, text, internet message when in need.... I am here because of them! My family has me because of the Watershed....

I entered The Watershed a broken person. I think I literally crawled in the doors. Scared and alone I needed help. This program is NOT easy. It is NOT vacation!! This is a place that understands where you are at and does everything possible to help you out of the life you need to give up. The Watershed gives everyone all the knowledge they need to live a life of recovery. Without The Shed I most definitely wouldn't be alive today. I took every bit of the suggestions that was given to me. I have 2 clean and a life I would not have ever imagined. The Watershed helped me save my life. They helped me save my children's mother. My time at The Shed is priceless and I am so blessed to have been there, and even more blessed that I never HAVE to go back. The Watershed is the BEST decision I have EVER made.

Initially it was me that did all the work!!! however if it wasn't for the consistency with the intake crew I truly believe I would not be alive today so thank you !! Not to mention The daily treatment program of workshops, therapists, medical professionals ... Top notch! Alumni Saturday's !!! Rock! Peace Love Respect, Still sober JoanJoan 11-1-2007

This was a life changing experience for me. One that'll I'll never forget. I owe this facility everything. They completely helped me find ME, gave me the self esteem and drive I so desperately needed. This wasn't just a drug rehab. This was an all-around life-improvement, self-improvement, career focused adventure. I am sober over one year now thanks to the knowledge I received at the watershed an d the coping skills I obtained. I also gained life long friendships with some really incredible people. It was a beautiful place. Comforting, just gorgeous. The Palm trees, the rooms inside the facility was so clean and organized. The staff was extremely intelligent, caring and wonderful.This is a time in my life I will never forget and I owe it all to the watershed. Thank you so much!!

I came into the Watershed May 23, 2013, and I've been sober ever since. I highly recommend the Watershed to anyone trying to recover from this horrible disease of drug addiction and alcoholism. This program has taught me responsibility, accountability, and how to be a productive member of society. I owe my recovery to them

The Watershed helped save my life and now I know how blessed I am. I struggled for half of my life w drug addiction and once I injected that very first time I had finally found the numbness I longed for. Heroine took my life and my soul away and the person I was became simply unreachable. Then I made the decision life or death and it so happened I chose life and was so worth the fight. Without the Shed and the friends I made there my life I know would have been gone and lost forever . Thanks with all of me! I am greatful and blessed beyond measure today. A little more than 3 years later I know I dont need that needle and that life anymore! For today I am thankful and truly blessed!!

August 15th 2015 was the day I made the call to the Watershed from Phoenix AZ and I checked in to Boca that evening. I was confused, lost and sick when I got there but the staff help make it as good as possible. Over the next week they got me over the withdrawals that come along with the stoppage of heavy alcohol use and things began to clear up. My brain was still cloudy and I was in rehab but there was nowhere but up to go. I really don't think that any patient is going to be terribly excited about whatever facility they end up in and neither was I but it wasn't the Shed I had an issue with, it was the fact that I earned my ticket there and everyone else in there did too. I would have been happy staying at the Boca hospital, eating awesome food and hanging out on the patio with the smokers even though I didn't smoke. But the program and the insurance company had plans for me to go to PHP to continue my healing the process. It was unconformable moving to PHP and I wasn't that excited. It felt like the first day of high school, you don't know what's going on and you fumble around but after a day you get used to it especially regaining contact with the outside world via your cell phone. It might seems a little crazy but being able to talk with my wife and kids when I wanted without an audience gave me strength, because I was there for them too. A simple "I love you and we are proud of you" is all the fuel I needed to get things on track. Everything is what you make of it and although I wasn't a huge fan of sitting in class all day but I took the stuff away from it that I needed (after all I did earn my trip there so it was time to take the medicine), The key staff members were awesome, I really appreciate my therapist both at Boca and PHP. Dominique and Larisa were two angels who helped me than I probably will ever have the chance to tell them. One year later I'm sober, happy and have don't some amazing stuff that was not possible before I got help. I opened 2 different businesses which are doing amazing, I moved my family across the country back to a place that makes us all happy. Some may think happiness is a fairy tale and the stuff we create during our addiction will keep you down forever but that is not the truth. When you are sober, you have the power to affect change of all sorts, good, bad and insignificant. One thing I never lost was my dreams, when I got sober I found the fire and NEVER looked back. I work my program, I made my mends with those who I needed to but I don't wear that guilt and junk like I did. Life is different, people will treat you different because they think you are fragile when you get home. I called all of that my "tackling fuel", success despite peoples opinions and obvious failures. I still have alcoholic friends, many opened up and talked to me to ask for help after I help myself, it was them who I feared the most when I got home but instead if your lucky like me, you inspire change in some of them too. In February Alcohol killed one of my very best friends, A man, when looking the outside ran his own business, married to an amazing woman and had what looked like the American dream. Jess was closer to me than my brother and we had that bond that brothers have. We even talked about his drinking and he had asked about the Shed but didn't know how or when he could leave his company to get sober. He sent me a picture about the middle of January from the ER and it was just his eyes which had turned dark yellow. A day later the diagnosis of cirrhosis. They put him on treatment and he vowed to change. It was to little to late, God needed a good man and my best friend back in heaven. I wake up every morning thinking of my friend Jess and how he wanted what I got. The reality is I would have shared his fate had I not taken care of myself. That's a heavy weight to bear and my wife and kids are constant reminders of what kind of real damage I could have done AND what I did do to fix it I will always consider the Watershed to be the place that saved my life. I won't lie, its sucks when you are there but once you get some distance and reflect, it's an amazing place. Thank you

my experience is that the watershed is an honest program that works. the staff actually cares and ahows support. its an amazing program and would recommend anyone struggling with addiction to go there