Ep 04: Taste Recovery App, KEYSTONE Sober Livings, and Higher Purpose RecoveryEp 04: Taste Recovery App, KEYSTONE Sober Livings, and Higher Purpose Recovery
Peji's Recovery Corner
Breezy and Wren share how their lived experiences in sober housing led to the Taste Recovery app and carefully run Keystone sober homes, stressing structure, honesty and reviews as vital tools. The conversation highlights how clean, accountable environments can support people leaving treatment and trying to stay sober.
42:51•15 Mar 2021
Taste Recovery, Keystone Sober Living, and Building Real Recovery Homes
Episode Overview
- Well-run sober livings focus on structure, safety and cleanliness, not just filling beds.
- The Taste Recovery app lets people search sober livings by location, gender and recommendations, and read or leave reviews.
- Guest reviews and owner responses help expose unsafe homes and highlight genuinely supportive environments.
- Staying longer in sober living with rules, chores, meetings and sponsorship can strengthen recovery and reduce relapse risk.
- Strong house management and clear consequences for breaking rules keep sober livings from turning into flophouses.
“You have to taste recovery. You have to feel it. You have to experience every part of your being into recovery in order to fully…”
How do people find strength in their journey to sobriety? Peji’s Recovery Corner answers that by shining a light on sober living done properly and the tools that can make it easier to stay clean. This time, Pej sits down with Breezy, creator of the Taste Recovery app, and long-time sober living owner Wren Goolsby of Keystone Sober Living and Higher Purpose Recovery.
Breezy shares how her own alcohol use and a string of unsafe, chaotic “sober” homes pushed her to create something different. After watching friends die from overdoses and surviving a Florida house where “the house manager was using” and residents constantly relapsed, she eventually found a structured women’s home in Dana Point that she calls a “complete 180”.
Out of that experience came Taste Recovery, an app Breezy describes as “very similar to like a Yelp meets Airbnb” for sober living, listing over 200 homes across 30 states and sorting them by location, gender and recommendations. Crucially, guests can leave reviews and owners can respond, making it harder for dangerous flophouses to hide behind a glossy sales pitch.
Wren adds the perspective of a former meth user who faced a seven-year sentence, found his way into Keystone One, and stayed long enough for “magic” to happen through structure, chores, meetings and accountability. His stories about clean beds, curfews and consequences show how simple habits—like making your bed—can rebuild a life from the ground up. Together, they lay out a clear message: safe, well-run sober living and honest information can literally be the difference between life and death.
If you or someone you care about is considering sober living, what kind of structure and honesty are you really looking for?
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