What the talk is about.

My Stable Life was born from firsthand experience with the gaps and heartbreak in our mental health system.

During a recent journey as a peer offering advocacy and support, through locked facilities, emergency rooms, and residential programs, I witnessed how the system rewards crisis, not recovery — people either don’t qualify for care until it’s too late, or they’re kept in beds long past what’s healthy. I saw how isolation perpetuates illness and individuals and families struggle not for lack of treatment, but for lack of supportive community. 

My Stable Life is reimagining recovery through community and innovation.

In 2023, California’s Proposition 1 passed with promises of new housing and mental health facilities — largely extending an outdated model of institutional care. 

My Stable Life tackles the same crisis from a fundamentally different angle: community-based recovery. Our approach combines stable housing, purpose-driven living, and peer-supported mental health services within a tiny home village framework.

This relatively low-cost, high-impact model allows residents to live with dignity and independence while remaining closely connected to professional care, peer mentorship, and community living.

Each village functions as a living ecosystem of recovery — reducing hospitalization rates, homelessness, and recidivism, while supporting families as they support their loved ones.  Here the great work of recovery can be completed, restoring people to self-supporting, connected, lives worth living.

We are building a scalable, sustainable model for mental health recovery.

Senate Bill 803 passed in 2020 and California joined almost every other state that already had a Peer Support Specialist program. State health insurance is finally recognizing the powerful difference peer support can make in helping people recover and build stable lives. 

Inspired by this movement, echoing the great successes of Alcoholics Anonymous, and informed by modern therapeutic practices, My Stable Life integrates equine-assisted therapy, vocational training, and holistic wellness programs into a replicable network of residential communities. 

Our vision is to partner with local governments, healthcare systems, and mission-aligned investors to pilot the first “Stable Life Village” in California — a cost-efficient alternative to institutional expansion. By blending the accessibility of tiny homes with the effectiveness of community-based treatment, we can redefine recovery and demonstrate that healing doesn’t need to be done in isolation.

Our mission is to build communities where recovery is not a phase, but a way of life.

My Stable Life envisions a nationwide network of such residential communities — scalable, peer-supported, and grounded in lived experience. Within each community, those who have achieved stability mentor those still on the path, supported by accessible therapies, meaningful work, and connection to nature and her creatures.

“Are these extravagant promises?  We think not…”  

Have you asked yourself why after all the progress we have made, people are on the streets and dying in epidemic proportions?

Why not institutionalize healing communities that can be built in city after city like IKEA, Costco or Disneyland? Trust me, it will be cheaper and more effective than our failing, broken system.  Let’s build on the great gains we’ve made and transform the way our society supports mental health recovery, sustaining mental wellness, one stable life at a time.