Our calling is to shine light on the parts of you that need healing, and to guide you into the life you were destined to be living. We are a team of caring, experienced professionals and guides, whose highest priority is creating a safe space for you to begin your journey.
“The power to change your life lies in the simplest of steps.”
Steve Maraboli
At the core of our radically transformational wellness program lies an underlying philosophy and approach to healing.
Aptly named, Therapeutic Life Changes is the guide from which we design and implement all therapies and services in our holistic healing curriculum.
We believe, and research shows, that the heart of wellness is composed of these 6 core concepts:
Integral to our transformative recovery program is the inclusion of 12 step recovery options. Depending on your specific needs for recovery, each day will hold various types of participation in one or more of the 12 step recovery programs we have available. In addition to providing a solid step by step guide to recovering from addiction, 12 step recovery groups and literature is a wealth of ongoing support, wisdom, and opportunity for friendship and growth throughout your lifelong journey of wellness and healing.
The reason we are committed to a holistic therapeutic approach in the treatment of addiction and trauma is because it works.
It is because your struggle was never about just the drugs and alcohol. Your struggle has always been about so much more than the substances that have controlled you.
To treat the addiction only, to focus solely on removing the alcohol or the drugs, would leave you with an entire lifestyle that is killing you, a history that is haunting you, and habits that are harming you. It is the reason many addicts and alcoholics will relapse. Because your story is not just about removing one thing. It is about healing everything.
And you deserve to be treated as one.
“You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be.”
– Marianne Williamson
Everything we have implemented here, falls under the philosophy of Therapeutic Life Changes. Each medical intervention, each outdoor adventure and breathwork class, each cold plunge, meditation and yoga session, each meal…it is all specifically designed to bring you back to center. And by the time you leave, you won’t be the same person that entered.
You can do this. You are capable. You are worthy.
And let us remind you of something else: you are not broken.
You are wounded. And wounds need the proper care to heal. And healing doesn’t happen alone, friend. It happens with support, guidance, and compassion. We are here, waiting, to walk with you every step of the way.
Thousands upon thousands of studies conducted on the epidemic of depression show that the human brain was designed with a special protective mechanism called the “Runaway Stress Response”, a defense strategy designed to protect early humans from impending danger. You might know it better as “Fight or Flight”. The mechanism is a costly one to both the brain and nervous system, but it is meant to be short-lived and is easy to recover from under normal circumstances. However, in modern day society (one far different from the days of our hunter-gatherer ancestors) none of us are living under “normal” circumstances, are we? What with its consistent levels of high stress, highly irregular diets, sleep deprivation, lack of connection, and sedentary work, it puts many people into this stress response state for weeks or even months at a time.
You know this place. You’ve been living here for years.
While the stress response may be acceptable in the short term, as it was intended, science has proven that in the long term it is responsible for causing the most extreme forms of harm. Modern day lifestyles are responsible for causing:
All of this adds up to one broader, and often fatal, result: Depression & Anxiety
Whether or not you have been diagnosed with depression or anxiety, the reality is that as an addict you are likely experiencing many if not all the effects of these illnesses. The symptoms, while not only painful and difficult to live with, are also physical, emotional, and mental barriers to living the life you crave, which is why our treatment approach is both revolutionary and necessary to achieving lasting wellness.
In summary, our lifestyles are killing us. And living in a world that has us operating under a constant stress response has an even more important implication for the alcoholic and addict who is seeking recovery:
Abstinence alone will never solve the problem…
the toxic mode of living ,and the traumas you’ve endured, have created very real wounds.
If lasting recovery is desired, it depends on healing the whole self:
Mind, Body, & Spirit.
So what is to be done about it? We can’t quit the world, it’s true. Unless you are independently wealthy, you will need to work and attend functions, and all of the fast food restaurants and media and addiction-worthy pursuits will continue to surround you.
But here’s what we can do.
We can make new decisions.
We can learn new ways and pick up new tools.
We can let go of what no longer serves you, and commence a new way of living that opens you to all the joy, wellness, and health that you were meant to experience.
You’ve been living in a stress response state for years. Maybe you have even tried making changes on your own, tried medications, or been to rehab, but then for one reason or another you didn’t experience the results you hoped for.
It’s ok.
Because the truth is, you weren’t meant to do it alone. You were never meant to do any of this alone. That’s why we exist. Because these changes are not just doing one thing differently.
Our program is a complete and total overhaul, a restructuring of the mind, body, and spirit. Designed to normalize your nervous system, to return you to a state of equilibrium, and guide you through each practice, each change, while you find your way back to your true self.
We created this place for you.
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