What Does It Mean to Get Squared Away?
Recovery is often described as stopping the use of alcohol or drugs. That matters—but it is only the beginning.
Addiction can affect the brain and body, mental health, relationships, identity, purpose, work, finances, and the ability to manage everyday life. Recovery therefore requires more than removing a substance. It requires rebuilding the person and the life around them.
Getting Squared Away is a framework for that rebuilding.
The Four Dimensions of Recovery
Recovery involves four interconnected dimensions. Each is essential, and growth in one strengthens the others.
Substance Cessation & Neurobiological Stabilization
Mental Health Stabilization
Grief & Identity Reconstruction
Developmental & Functional Restoration
Who Is Getting Squared Away For?
Recovery affects more than the person struggling with addiction. Getting Squared Away is designed to help individuals, families, and professionals understand recovery as the rebuilding of the whole person.
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Individuals in recovery
Families &
Supporters
Professionals
For people working to understand addiction, stabilize recovery, rebuild identity, and create a life that can support long-term change.
For the people walking beside someone in recovery who want to understand the process, provide meaningful support, and maintain healthy boundaries.
For clinicians, peer specialists, educators, clergy, and other professionals looking for a whole-person framework they can apply in their work.
LEARN • REFLECT • REBUILD
The Getting Squared Away Recovery Academy™
Recovery is not something you simply understand. It is something you learn to live.
The Recovery Academy brings the principles of Getting Squared Away to life through short, practical conversations designed to help you understand recovery and begin applying it to everyday life.
Practical Recovery Conversations
Understand the Why
Build the Skills
Keep Moving Forward
Learn what is happening beneath the surface of recovery.
Turn recovery principles into practical decisions and daily habit.
Apply what you learn one decision, one day, and one step at a time.
THE BOOK
Getting Squared Away
Rebuilding the Whole Person After Addiction
Getting Squared Away presents a whole-person approach to recovery that goes beyond stopping substance use. Through practical guidance, clinical insight, and stories of rebuilding, the book explores what it takes to restore the areas of life addiction can interrupt.
Recovery isn't about getting your old life back.
It's about building the life addiction tried to steal from you.
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Rev. Dr. Paul Klaverweiden
Clinician • Educator • Author
For more than eight years, Dr. Paul Klaverweiden has used the principles behind the Squared Away Recovery Framework™ in clinical practice, working with people whose lives have been affected by addiction, mental health challenges, and the difficult work of rebuilding.
His approach grew from a simple observation: stopping substance use is essential, but lasting recovery often requires rebuilding much more—the mind, relationships, identity, purpose, and the practical structure of everyday life.
Getting Squared Away brings those lessons beyond the clinical setting to individuals in recovery, families, and the professionals who walk beside them.
“Recovery is not simply about what we stop doing.
It is about what we begin building.”
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PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR RECOVERY
Resources to Help You Keep Building
Recovery happens between the conversations, appointments, meetings, and chapters. These resources are designed to help turn what you are learning into practical steps you can use in everyday life.
Recovery Tools
Family Resources
Professional Resources
Practical worksheets, reflection exercises, and tools designed to help you apply the principles of whole-person recovery.
Guidance for families and supporters who want to better understand recovery, offer meaningful support, and maintain healthy boundaries.
Tools and materials for clinicians, peer specialists, educators, clergy, and others supporting people through recovery.