Learning to flow with life is a game of letting go of control and beginning to allow yourself to feel present and safe in your body. If control is something that feels incredibly familiar, and uncertainty feels scary, letting go… Read More ›
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The Power of Visualization
Sometimes, usual practices in your life can stop feeling like they are working. It may feel like you know something needs to change, but you do not know what. Visualization can help you slow down and get in contact with… Read More ›
Healing Through Art Therapy
There are many different treatments out there to heal anxiety. Depending on you and your preferences, one type of therapeutic approach may work better than another. One type of therapy for the treatment of anxiety is art therapy. What Is… Read More ›
Learning How to Be Human
Healing is a process of beginning to feel safe in allowing yourself to be more human. Experiences of trauma often produce the desire to be perfect through control over your environment, emotions, thoughts, and actions. Perfectionism can give you a… Read More ›
Tapping Into Your Healthy Self
Healing is a process of tapping into your healthy self and beginning to make decisions from this part of you. This is done with acceptance of unhealthy parts of you that may have kept you stuck in ways that were… Read More ›
Putting Your Recovery First
Putting your recovery first can be challenging, especially on the days when healing feels particularly hard. Sometimes healing makes you feel on top of the world, and other times it can leave you feeling as if you are hanging on… Read More ›
The Power of Allowance
Allowance is the amount to which you permit something into your experience. In the absence of allowance, you may find yourself meeting resistance and feeling stuck physically, relationally, emotionally, or spiritually. Noting What You Are Resisting To have allowance, you… Read More ›
The Power of Self-Forgiveness in Recovery
Self-forgiveness is essential not only for intentional healing journeys—like those from substance abuse or mental health issues—but in life in general. Even if you often allow yourself to forgive other people, sometimes it feels like forgiving yourself is off-limits, especially… Read More ›
Trusting Your Internal Compass
Self-trust can feel like learning a foreign language, especially if you have spent most of your life searching for answers through external validation, comparison, and doing what you “should” do. Perhaps you have never even asked yourself the question, “What… Read More ›
The Power of Fear in Addiction & Recovery
Fear is a powerful emotion that can significantly impact the type of decisions you make. If you are thinking about getting treatment, you may be struggling with your fears about the future. Learning to think about your fears differently can… Read More ›