Love and Recovery New Heights takes a bold step by welcoming re overing couples
Aside from the brotherly and sisterly relationships fostered within the co-ed component at New Heights, owner Greg McFarlane has opened the home up to another approach, the prospect of couples living together, growing in their commitment to recovery and to one another. It started as a simple suggestion from a resident, Lance Latourneau, whose fiancée, Tiffanie Pearson, was set to graduate inpatient treatment in December 2014. Latourneau brought up the idea of her moving into New Heights to continue her recovery. He never pushed the subject, says McFarlane, but opened it up for consideration. Eventually McFarlane warmed up to the idea through meditation, prayer and personal interaction with Latourneau. “Everything I saw in him was a man deeply in love and deeply respectful of a woman,”McFarlane says, “a man who got sidetracked by drugs.” And despite some outside skepticism, everything went smoothly. Latourneau and Pearson continued their relationship, became active in their church and remained diligent to the principles of recovery. It went so smoothly, in fact, that McFarlane asked the two to help manage a second New Heights location, and later a third house as the community grew. “Each day I watch them continue to work a program of recovery and grow,” says McFarlane, “and then continue to help somebody else.”
Bryan Braddy and Bethany Draheim
“Each day I watch them continue to work a program of recovery and grow, and then continue to help somebody else.” -Greg McFarlane owner New Heights Sober House, LLC
Tiffanie Pearson and Lance Latourneau
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