About
Root to Rise grew out of Inspiration is Everywhere — a Mashpee and Falmouth effort to make sure neighbors could get the care that actually fit. The work got clearer. The mission got smaller, on purpose.
Inspiration is Everywhere was a wide door. Root to Rise is a specific one: people in recovery, the families standing with them, and the Cape Cod towns they already live in. We kept the hospitality. We sharpened the offer — coaching, meals, work, and a human being who knows how to find the rest.
The Upper Cape is generous and stretched at the same time. Treatment exists. Meetings exist. Food pantries exist. What often does not exist is someone who will sit with you long enough to make a plan and then still be there on Thursday. That is the gap we fill.
Mission
Root to Rise walks with people in recovery on Cape Cod — offering coaching, meals, work, and a clear path to the resources that make a life possible.
We talk to adults like adults. Recovery is hard enough without being managed.
A breakfast table that is actually set. A coach who actually calls back. Consistency is the intervention.
The opposite of addiction is not abstinence. It is connection — in two small towns that still know each other's names.
Meals, rides, job leads, a warm introduction. Hope without a plan is just a speech.
President
Michael is a longtime Mashpee and Falmouth community member who has spent years building rooms where people can get stronger — in body, in habit, and in each other's company. As president of Root to Rise he keeps the mission tight: train coaches, feed people, and make sure no one in recovery has to figure the Cape out alone.
Vice President · Author
James helps lead the Recovery Breakfast Program at Cape Island Cafe in Falmouth and the day-to-day work of showing up for neighbors. He is the author of The 7 Pillars of Resilience — a weekly practice for building a life you do not want to escape from — and the reason a coach is in the room when someone walks in for the first time.
Read The 7 Pillars of Resilience
