Mindfulness in Treatment: Getting to Know Yourself The other area that's important that's come into the treatment field, when we're looking at kind of how to recover and become whole and become healthy, is what I would say the Eastern practices and I'll lose the categorize them as mindfulness and of yoga Mindfulness is around intention and attention If I meet s...
Read MoreRead MoreThe Spiritual Element of Recovery In many programs, that you would go to, to engage in recovery from addiction, there's a spiritual element to that program So we have a spiritual program or something like this And the most common spiritual traditions that they drawn are these Eastern traditions, Buddhism, the yoga, the mindfulness, meditation, these kinds of things And honestly, I don't...
Read MoreRead MoreOne of the things I don't talk about as much--but it's so important--is the physical aspects of treating addiction Now this doesn’t necessarily pertain to people who are already “fitness freaks” There's a whole group of people that come into treatment and their primary coping tool is the gym and eating well For those people, they're not gonna get the same kind of relief from t...
Read MoreRead MoreWhen I'm working as an addiction or spiritual counselor, clients want to climb the ladder of treatment They want to move forward in their lives, which is understandable We all want that direction And that idea of moving forward in treatment--that's a therapeutic issue I don't mean that as an evasion Our conception of what it means to move forward is a therapeutic issue ...
Read MoreRead MoreLet’s face it, the media has an impact on our opinions and how we view the world Unfortunately, seeing the world through the eyes of the media isn’t alwayswell, reality Take substance abuse treatment Popular culture believes a person successfully completing treatment will stay away from drugs or alcohol for the rest of his or her life As a result, life gets better Sure this idea o...
Read MoreRead MoreComing to treatment has always been a hard threshold to cross - but more so now… Working in treatment for a long time, I’ve experienced greater consumer wariness People are more hesitant to send their loved ones to treatment and people who are looking for treatment are more hesitant to come I think one of the reasons is the discourse about addiction, treatment and recovery has hit...
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