You've Mastered Success. Now Master Living.
I'm Chris Leston. Sober since 2006. I know what it's like to have everything together on the outside while feeling empty inside.
I built a career, handled responsibilities, overcame addiction and depression. But I was just managing my life—not living it. That's why I created Away Recovery.
When success on the outside doesn't match what you feel on the inside, it's time to step away and do the deeper work.
The Real Patterns We See:
Relationship Erosion Through Betrayal
Infidelity becomes a way to feel alive again, but it fractures the foundation of trust you've built. The thrill masks deeper issues of disconnection and authenticity.
Numbing Through New Dependencies
Even years into sobriety, you find yourself dependent on work, shopping, or other behaviors that recreate the same cycles of shame and secrecy.
The Great Emotional Transfer
You've shifted intensity from substances to controlling, perfectionism, or people-pleasing. The underlying emotional patterns remain unchanged.
Erosion of Personal Truth
Small compromises in honesty compound over time. You find yourself living multiple versions of yourself—none feeling completely genuine.
The Comfort of Low Expectations
You've become comfortable being functional rather than flourishing. High performance in narrow areas masks the reality that you've stopped expecting depth from your life.
If you recognize yourself in these patterns, your Breakthrough Awaits…
I offer concentrated breakthrough experiences that create authentic transformation through rigorous self-searching, somatic practices, outdoor experiences, and empowerment practices.
One-Day Workshops
Break through limiting patterns with other committed men.
Exclusive One on One Private Retreats
Confidential, customized one-on-one breakthrough work.
Men’s Multi Day Retreat Workshops
An intensive breakthrough experience designed to help you step away from daily demands and do the deeper work that creates lasting change.
Fire-Walking Empowerment
Face your fears and step into your full power. → Information COMING SOON!
Why This Works
Confidential - No risk to your professional reputation
Efficient - Breakthrough work in concentrated time frames
Integrated - Tools that enhance your effectiveness as leader and father
Authentic - Move from performing your life to truly living it
I've walked this path from functional to thriving. Let me guide you on yours.
Ready to step away and do the deeper work?
You're Not Just "Getting By" Anymore—You're Ready for More
Intensive Experiences That Create Lasting Change
Away Recovery isn't traditional treatment or weekly therapy. We offer concentrated breakthrough experiences in and around New England where successful men step away from daily demands to do the deeper work that creates authentic transformation.
Rigorous & Honest Self-Searching
The foundation of transformational work that goes beyond surface-level insights to create genuine change.
Somatic Practices
Reconnect with your body and emotions to break through years of disconnection and numbness.
Outdoor Experiences
Nature-based challenges that provide perspective, grounding, and a break from the artificial environments that fuel dysfunction.
Empowerment Practices
Including fire-walking and other breakthrough experiences designed to shatter limiting beliefs and create new possibilities.
The Result
You return to your life with practical tools, renewed purpose, and the kind of authentic presence your family and community deserve. No more managing—start creating the life you actually want.
Breakthrough Experiences for Men Ready to Transform
Four Intensive Options for Authentic Change
Multi-Day Retreats
Intensive White Mountains experiences for men ready to step away from daily demands and do the deeper work. Rigorous self-examination, outdoor challenges, brotherhood, and breakthrough experiences that create lasting transformation.
For men who know something fundamental needs to change.
One-Day Intensive Workshops
Concentrated breakthrough sessions with other committed men. Group process, authentic sharing, experiential exercises, and practical tools for emotional regulation. Perfect for men ready to break through limiting patterns with the support of brotherhood.
When you need immediate breakthrough but can't step away for days.
Private Retreats
Completely confidential, customized experiences for men who need privacy or want to go deeper without group dynamics. Intensive one-on-one breakthrough work with flexible scheduling around your commitments.
For men who require complete discretion or have specific challenges to address.
Corporate Leadership Intensives
Multi-day or single-day experiences for executive teams and leadership groups. We address the real issues that limit organizational effectiveness: authentic leadership, communication breakdowns, toxic dynamics, and innovation paralysis.
For companies ready to move their leadership from functional to transformational.
Optional Add-On: Empowerment Breakthrough Experiences Powerful breakthrough experiences including fire-walking for men ready to shatter limiting beliefs, build confidence, and step into their full power through supported risk-taking.
All experiences combine rigorous self-examination, somatic practices, outdoor elements, and practical tools that create measurable change in how you show up in your relationships, work, and life.
Why Successful Men Choose Away Recovery
Chris Leston, Founder - Sober since January 2006, Chris has walked the path from functional success to deeper fulfillment. He understands the unique challenges facing professional men who appear to have their lives together on the surface while struggling with authenticity and connection underneath.
Through his own experience with addiction, depression, and the isolating cycles that come with maintaining professional success while struggling internally, Chris founded Away Recovery to offer what traditional approaches often miss: intensive experiences that go beyond managing problems to creating genuine transformation.
Our Approach Works Because:
Confidentiality - No risk to your professional reputation
Efficiency - Breakthrough work in concentrated time frames
Integration - Tools that enhance your effectiveness as a leader and father
Authenticity - Move from performing your life to truly living it
We've Been Where You Are
Away Recovery is guided by professionals who credit a holistic, connection-based approach with their own transformation. We know what it's like to be successful externally while feeling stagnant internally—because we've been there.
