We are in full swing of the hustle and bustle of the holidays. Every year at this time I contemplate the past year and think about the upcoming year. The idea of a New Year’s resolution always crosses my mind and it causes a wave of emotions: excitement, hopefulness, defeat, being overwhelmed, pressure to succeed… Continue Reading New Year’s Resolutions? Let’s Make a Change!
We hope that you had a wonderful holiday weekend and got to share the gifts that recovery has given you with others. That’s exactly what our Gift2Give promotion has been about! We are excited to announce that we received quite a few videos, from you, letting the world know how recovery is helping you change… Continue Reading The Recovery Community Sharing Their Gifts
Over 2,500 years ago, a man named Siddhartha Gautama revolutionized the spiritual world with the philosophy he called, “the Middle Way”. This new spiritual approach discarded much of the dated and stale spiritual practices of his time, while preserving revising much of the good pieces. Siddhartha, in his moment of awakening, discovered that all that… Continue Reading Refuge Recovery: “The Middle Way” of Recovery
The first week of our Gift2Give campaign has been going well! Here a few shares:
Recovery can give you a lot! It can give you a new lease on life. It can give you the chance to reclaim and mend broken or damaged past relationships. It can even give you your life back. In short, recovery is the gift-giver OF ALL gift givers. We all have gifts that recovery has… Continue Reading What is the gift you give? Let’s share that gift!
Behavioral health is an industry that cares. An industry that saves lives, gives hope, and builds connections. These connections with our prospective customers and existing clients is more important, and also easier to maintain, than ever before. This is largely due to the ever-evolving landscape of mobile technology. Those in search of help have instant… Continue Reading A Caring Industry: A Conversation with Behavioral Health Tech Company, CaredFor
In last weeks blog I shared the experience one of my clients had in writing an Anger letter to release the pain from past experiences and find healing. Through the letter writing process the client was able to free herself from pain and past trauma and move forward towards health and healing. The client brought… Continue Reading Fire Breathing and the Anger Letter: Therapeutic Letter Writing Part 2
The great William White states in Recovery Support and Connection to Community, that “Recovery is not durable until it is firmly nested in the community.” Let this serve as a call to action. The Native American Wellbriety Movement speaks of the Healing Forest Model. The parable used is that of an attempt to save a… Continue Reading The Healing Forest: Recovery Community
Haven’t we all had at least one experience where we question “why me?” Why am I faced with this difficult challenge? Why did they do that to me? Why was I harmed? What have I done to deserve this? Haven’t we all had at least one experience where we question “why me?” Why am I… Continue Reading The Write Way to Find Meaning: Therapeutic Letter Writing Part 1
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