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I’ve met mentors here who have “walked my walk” and understood what it took to live a clean and sober life. For the first time in my life, I felt there was hope for me. I’m slowly gaining trust back from family and friends that I have hurt in the…
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Animal assisted therapy is an emerging therapy option that helps promote calm and healing in treatment. For centuries,
animals have helped people heal physically and psychologically.
There are several opportunities on this site to hear a resident expert discuss the details and therapeutic benefits of AAT.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a therapy developed in the late 1980s by California psychologist Francine Shapiro. It is used primarily in the treatment of patients who suffered a single traumatic event, such as rape, or are currently suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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Do you think that this does not apply to you?
Read on! What is post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? Who gets PTSD? And many more questions.
Of course! Embracing recovery pluralism is not an embrace of opinions and preferences that completely dominate facts. To be tolerant of the varieties of recovery experience is not to say we must blindly accept all proffered approaches to recovery as equal. Read more about recoveryism!
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Racism, dogmatism, and sexism are the judgments that one race, set of beliefs, or sex are superior. Today we define and discuss “recoveryism:”
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