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How Neurofeedback Can Help You Beat Addiction

The idea behind neurofeedback is simple and powerful: When you can actually see what your brain is doing you have much more control over your mental states. Learning new skills requires immediate feedback. When you learn to write your name it’s much easier when you can see where the pencil is going and make corrections.… Continue Reading How Neurofeedback Can Help You Beat Addiction

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How Swimming Can Help You Stay Sober

Exercise is one of the best things you can do for yourself in recovery. Exercise strengthens willpower and executive function. It improves your mood by increasing serotonin, endorphins, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor, or BDNF, which actually grows brain cells in certain parts of your brain. Exercise also makes you healthier and repairs some of the… Continue Reading How Swimming Can Help You Stay Sober

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Sensory Integration Therapy A Paradigm Shift for Substance Abuse Treatment

“There is no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone—which is not, in some form or degree, in every heart.” –GEORGE MACDONALD   There is a new paradigm of healthcare and wellness that is qualitatively different in the approach to the interaction of the mind, body, spirit, and environment.  When it… Continue Reading Sensory Integration Therapy A Paradigm Shift for Substance Abuse Treatment

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Does the Substance Abuse Treatment Treat the Whole Family?

Addiction is often referred to as a “family disease,” this is because it affects the family and friends of the addict. Often, we are only thinking of getting help for the person who is struggling, but substance abuse treatment goes much further than just treating the addict. One of the most critical questions anyone who… Continue Reading Does the Substance Abuse Treatment Treat the Whole Family?

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Rehab is an Experience, Utah Addiction Treatment Centers that Focus on Education are Missing the Point

I came across a Huffington Post article the other day that shook me to my core.  The author started the article by asking, “Have you heard what’s going on with drug addiction in this country? No, not the who are dying from it every year, or the tripling of heroin overdose deaths. Not the 23.5… Continue Reading Rehab is an Experience, Utah Addiction Treatment Centers that Focus on Education are Missing the Point

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Dual Diagnosis Counseling in Salt Lake City

Dual diagnosis is also referred to as co-occurring disorders. This refers to individuals who are struggling with both a mental illness as well as a substance addiction. Dual diagnosis can be a challenge and will take time to overcome. Treatment can be harder for patients with mental illnesses, because it can become a struggle to… Continue Reading Dual Diagnosis Counseling in Salt Lake City

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