The inspiration for Four Little Birds comes from Bob Marley's song Three Little Birds.
We had been together for only a few months when my husband was going through recovery from addiction. In the middle of our hardest arguments, when it felt like there was no way out, that song would somehow show up, and almost always managed to make us smile.
We would hear it from a cassette player outside the town hall, in a bar, on the car radio. It came back so many times, and so often exactly when things were hardest, that we stopped seeing it as a coincidence. We began to believe that, somehow, everything would be alright.
Later, we no longer waited for the song to find us. When things got really hard, we would play it ourselves. On repeat. In a way, it held our hand.
More than ten years later, my husband is still abstinent, and the two of us have become four.
That is how Three Little Birds became Four Little Birds.
That is why this name is not a brand we came up with afterwards. It is part of our story, a story that existed long before Four Little Birds was born.
Recovery is not about controlling people or telling them what to do. It is about understanding the person, creating connection, building awareness, and helping a sustainable life in recovery take shape.