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Two weeks is the right window. Earlier than that and your motivation drifts. Later than that and you're rushing the parts that actually matter — the supplements that need to be out of your system, the food that needs to be in it, the home that needs to be ready when you walk back through the door.

After more than seven years of welcoming patients from all over the world into Recovery House Medellín, we've noticed something. The patients who heal smoothly — who feel more like themselves at week three than they ever expected — share five things in common. None of them are random. We call them the five pillars of recovery. When all five are in place, the body does its work and the mind stays calm. When even one is missing, recovery still happens, but it feels harder and s