Fellowship House

Big thanks to TPALS and Point Balance Center for hosting another great night of recovery volleyball. Recovery isn’t just meetings and therapy—it’s fellowship, movement, healthy competition, learning to handle conflict, celebrating victories, and doing life together. Everyone had a blast tonight, and while we’re grateful for the community spirit, I should probably mention that Fellowship House is still undefeated. 🏐🔥

Matt Quinn has been a friend, mentor, and someone I’ve relied on for guidance both professionally and personally for many years. Few people earn that kind of trust over decades.

In this article, Matt offers valuable insights into prolonged dependency, developmental milestones, executive functioning, and why some young adults struggle to launch into independence. Parents especially may find it helpful.

https://mainlineparent.com/failure-to-launch-main-line-matthew-quinn-helping-young-adults-move-forward/

Failure to Launch on the Main Line: How Matthew Quinn Is Helping Young Adults Move Forward Failure to launch therapy on the Main Line: licensed counselor Matthew Quinn explains what's really driving the pattern — and what helps families move forward.

Worth a read. Matt Quinn has been a friend, mentor, and someone I’ve relied on for guidance both professionally and personally for many years. Few people earn that kind of trust over decades.

In this article, Matt offers valuable insights into prolonged dependency, developmental milestones, executive functioning, and why some young adults struggle to launch into independence. Parents especially may find it helpful.

https://mainlineparent.com/failure-to-launch-main-line-matthew-quinn-helping-young-adults-move-forward/

Failure to Launch on the Main Line: How Matthew Quinn Is Helping Young Adults Move Forward Failure to launch therapy on the Main Line: licensed counselor Matthew Quinn explains what's really driving the pattern — and what helps families move forward.

A big thank you to and Point Balance Center for hosting the first night of the Recovery Volleyball Tournament. The Scranton recovery community continues to prove that recovery is built on connection, fellowship, and people who genuinely care. Fellowship House was proud to be represented, and our boys had a blast.

🏐💙

Oldie but goodie.

A little over a year ago, I wrote a blog called Backrooms exploring liminal spaces, dissociation, trauma, technology, and the strange feeling of being psychologically “between worlds.”

Fast forward to today, and Backrooms just became a cultural phenomenon, breaking box office records and turning an internet myth into one of the biggest horror films of the year. The film opened at No. 1, setting records for A24 and becoming the biggest debut ever by a first-time filmmaker. (The Guardian)

Maybe the reason the concept resonates isn’t just horror. Maybe it’s because so many people recognize the feeling.

The endless hallways.
The fluorescent lights.
The sense of being disconnected, displaced, and searching for a way back.

Check out the blog and let me know what you think.

Backrooms - Fellowship Houses There’s a haunting internet myth called The Backrooms. Maybe you’ve heard of it—a liminal, uncanny dreamscape made up of endless yellow hallways, stained carpets, and flickering fluorescent lights. It’s what happens when you “noclip” out of reality, the story goes. You’re trapped in an...

“Psychosis Lite” isn’t a clinical term. It’s something I like to describe as the socially acceptable forms of disassociation we drift into every day. The looping self-talk. The curated identities. The constant stimulation. The subtle separation from embodied reality. Not full psychosis. Something quieter. More normalized. More culturally rewarded.

New blog in The Mandala Room

https://www.fellowshiphouses.com/staging/9983/psychosis-lite/

Psychosis Lite - Fellowship Houses Psychosis is typically defined as a severe disruption in perception, cognition, and reality testing. It can include hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, disorganized thought, and impaired insight. Psychosis is not one thing...

Yesterday’s lecture focused on anxiety, a condition that often exists long before the first drink, pill, or needle.

More than 40 million American adults live with an anxiety disorder each year, making it one of the most common mental health conditions in the United States. 

What can confuse people outside the experience of addiction is this:

Sometimes substance use disorder is not the origin of the suffering. Sometimes it’s the attempted solution.

For many alcoholics and addicts, substances initially functioned as relief. A way to quiet panic. Slow racing thoughts. Escape dread. Regulate sleep. Feel normal. Feel safe. Feel something.

Over time, the medicine becomes the catastrophe.

Understanding this distinction matters. Because if we only treat the behavior and never explore the pain, fear, trauma, or anxiety beneath it, people often return to the very thing that once gave temporary relief.

Recovery is not simply removing substances.
It’s learning how to live inside your own nervous system again.