Recovery Life

Lived experience. Earned resilience. Raw story.

Heavyweight gear for people who did the hard part and are still standing.

Heavyweight gear

Built by weight, not by season

The founder

Clean since 1998. Still telling the truth.

Recovery Life comes from Michael Barrett Fields — waterman, chef, single father, and author of the memoir The Big Who?. Born in the Bahamas, raised between South Florida and Costa Rica, he survived an addiction that took him to the edge more times than he can account for.

That’s the story stitched into every piece. Not a slogan someone bought.

"I've had this hoodie for eight months of daily wear and it still looks new. The weight of it is genuinely comforting on hard days."

Danielle R. — verified buyer, Portland OR