New Rehabilitation Center For Abused Opens in La Jolla

On Sept. 22, Practical Recovery opened a women’s-only rehabilitation home in San Diego.

The Restoration Inn offers specialized treatment surrounding relationship abuse (including domestic violence, sexual assault and childhood sexual abuse) and substance use disorders.

The women’s-only rehab is one of the few facilities of its kind in the country to offer trauma informed treatment for women from a self-empowered perspective.

Jessica Yaffa, author of the recently published Mine Until: My Journey Into and Out of the Arms of an Abuser, helped open the facilities.

Yaffa is committed to providing education, training, resources and community development to help eliminate the stigma surrounding relationship abuse and sexual assault.

What does domestic violence have to do with alcoholism, addiction and recovery?

Women who are in abusive relationships often turn to alcohol and drugs to self-medicate, thus the spiral downwards accelerates. The new facility teaches women skills to identify behavior patterns and set boundaries so that they don’t revert back into an abusive relationship.