The Adult Highchair: Learning How to Grow🌻 in Recovery

As adults, we’re expected to have it together.

We’re supposed to know how to manage our emotions.

Navigate relationships.

Set boundaries.

Care for ourselves.

Make healthy choices.

Handle stress.

Keep moving forward.

But here’s the truth most of us carry quietly:

Many of us were never taught how to grow up emotionally, spiritually, or relationally. Especially those of us walking the path of recovery.

Instead of learning how to regulate, connect, and trust — we learned how to survive. Instead of being guided, we coped. Instead of being supported, we adapted.

And adaptation kept us alive…but it doesn’t always help us thrive.

Just like a child doesn’t go from sitting to running overnight, healthy adulthood doesn’t happen automatically with age.

It happens through:

• practice

• support

• structure

• repetition

• grace

You don’t shame a child for wobbling when they first learn to walk. You don’t rush them into running before their legs are strong. You don’t expect independence before safety is established.

Yet as adults, we often expect that of ourselves.

Why “The Adult Highchair”?

A highchair isn’t a punishment. It’s a place of safety, nourishment, and learning. It’s where we’re fed. Where we learn how to sit still. Where we build coordination.

Where we begin independence — one bite at a time.

The Adult Highchair is a space to return to the basics we may have missed. Not because we are broken —but because we are 🌻growing.

This program is designed to help adults in recovery:

• slow down

• get supported

• learn foundational skills

• practice consistency

• build strength safely

So that over time, we can walk — and eventually run — toward what is healthy.

Healthy relationships.

Healthy boundaries.

Healthy coping.

Healthy faith.

Healthy self-trust.

From Sitting… to Walking… to Running

Recovery is developmental.

Before we can run toward a full, healthy life, we must first learn how to:

🪑 Sit

– tolerate emotions

– stay present

– accept support

– tell the truth

– regulate our nervous system

🚶 Walk

– practice boundaries

– make daily commitments

– follow through imperfectly

– respond instead of react

– choose support over isolation

🏃 Run

– live with purpose

– maintain healthy relationships

– navigate stress with tools

– trust ourselves and God

– move forward with confidence

The Adult Highchair focuses on the sitting and walking — so running becomes possible.

A Different Approach to Change

This is not about New Year’s resolutions. It’s not about willpower. It’s not about fixing yourself.

This is about learning how to:

• make daily commitments instead of big promises

• build success one day at a time

• grow without shame

• be accountable without punishment

• include God in the process, not just the outcome

When we commit to ourselves daily, we begin to trust ourselves. When we trust ourselves, we stop abandoning ourselves. When we stop abandoning ourselves, healing begins.

Introducing:

The Adult Highchair Program

The Adult Highchair is a 12-week, weekly coaching experience offered through Pursuit of Recovery.

There is both a standard track and a faith-based track, designed to meet you where you are.

This program is for adults who:

• feel stuck in old patterns

• are early in recovery or returning after relapse

• want structure without rigidity

• want accountability without shame

• want to grow emotionally, spiritually, and relationally

• are ready to stop surviving and start living differently

You do not need to have it all together. You do not need to be “strong enough.” You do not need to be fixed.

You just need to be willing to sit down, receive support,

and 🌻grow.

💌An Invitation💌

🌻Growth is not rushed.

❤️‍🩹Healing is not forced.

🎓Maturity is not shaming.

It is learned — slowly, safely, and together.

If you’re ready to stop trying to run on unsteady legs…

If you’re ready to build a foundation that lasts…

If you’re ready to grow up gently and intentionally…

The Adult Highchair may be for you!

More details will be coming soon…..

Until then, know this:

You are not behind.You are becoming.

With care and belief in you, Amy Pursuit of Recovery 💚