Field notes
Newsletter.
Notes from the work — performances, clinical experiments, and writing on the things we actually do here.
Treatment that understands the audition room.
Outpatient addiction treatment for actors and performers — the audition grind, rejection, performance anxiety, and an identity built on being watched.
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When the substance felt like focus.
For a lot of creative, ADHD brains, stimulants and alcohol felt like focus or an off-switch. Why self-medication backfires, and what dual-diagnosis care does.
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Does insurance actually cover rehab? Usually more than you think.
Whether insurance covers PHP and IOP outpatient rehab in Maryland — commercial plans, Maryland Medicaid, and how to find what you'll actually pay.
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You can't want it more than they do. But you're not powerless.
What actually helps when someone you love is using and won't admit it — beyond ultimatums, guilt, and waiting for rock bottom.
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Perfectionism is a drug too.
Perfectionism and control can run the same circuit as a substance — relief, then more. Why high-achievers burn out into using, and what helps.
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PHP, IOP, OP: how to tell which one you actually need.
PHP, IOP, outpatient — what the levels of care actually mean, who each one is for, and how to tell which fits where you are right now.
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Relapse isn't a moral failure. It's information.
Relapse doesn't erase your progress or prove you can't recover. What it actually means, and the next move that matters more than the shame.
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The high-functioning alcoholic nobody worries about.
High-functioning doesn't mean fine. Why the drinker who's holding it all together is often the last to get help — and what finally changes it.
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Why it feels worse before it feels better.
The flatness, the bad sleep, the irritability of early recovery aren't signs it's failing. What's actually happening, and why it passes.
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What actually happens in your first week.
The intake, the groups, the awkwardness, the relief — what your first week of outpatient addiction treatment actually looks like.
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Most treatment isn't built for the creative mind.
If generic rehab has always felt like it was built for someone else, you're not wrong. What treatment looks like when it's built around the creative mind.
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Treatment that understands the gig.
Outpatient addiction treatment that understands the working musician's life — touring, the bar economy, performance anxiety. PHP and IOP in Maryland.
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Not a craft hour. Clinical work.
What art and music therapy actually are in addiction treatment — not a craft hour, but clinical work that reaches what talk therapy can't.
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High-functioning is not the same as fine.
You hold the job and hit the deadlines — and quietly need the substance to do it. Why 'high-functioning' delays help, and what actually works.
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Shadow work and the addicted self.
Carl Jung's shadow — the parts of us we bury — and why turning toward them, instead of numbing them, is some of the realest work in addiction recovery.
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The fear that getting clean will flatten you.
The fear that getting clean will flatten your art keeps many creative people from treatment. What's actually true about creativity and recovery.
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Something happened in that room.
Our first sound bath landed harder than we expected. Why somatic and sound-based work are now a permanent part of our outpatient addiction recovery program.
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Glass House does more weird stuff.
An open meditation and sound bath at Glass House — stilling the mind with sound, silence, and the space where they meet.
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Glass House plays the Kennedy Center.
Our admissions director and founder perform at the Kennedy Center — on music, recovery, and the artists behind Glass House.
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Shadowboxing.
Carl Jung's shadow, the inner critic that builds cases against you, and what shadow work looks like inside addiction recovery.
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Glass House X Carl Jung: Shadow Realm
Bringing Jung's shadow, the unconscious, and depth psychology into real addiction treatment — a month built around it.
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Coming soon
This is glass house.
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