Behavioral Health Workshops

Source Link: Rio Retreat Bunkhouse

The Rio Retreat Bunkhouse is designed to be conducive to the process of healing and recovery. Book your stay at The Bunkhouse when you register for your workshop for added convenience, and more immersive healing environment.
Bunkhouse lodging is available on a first come, first serve basis; early registration is recommended.

Rooms and Accommodations

The rooms at The Bunkhouse are purposely free of the distractions that often accompany hotel lodging such as TVs and phones. Rooms are very simply furnished with two twin beds, storage space, an alarm clock, and luggage stand. All rooms have their own private bathroom.
Bunkhouse occupants will have access to the swimming pool during certain hours. Modest bathing suits are required.
A Sunday evening snack will be provided. Meals will be provided from Monday morning through Noon on Friday.

 

Cost

$565 including tax in addition to the workshop cost. This includes lodging in a Double-Occupancy Room.
If you’d like to request a single occupancy room, the cost is $1,000 for the length of stay.
Individuals will be paired with another workshop attendee of the same sex except for instances where couples attending a couple’s workshop are allowed to room together. (Couples are not allowed to room together for the Discovery to Recovery workshop.)

 

Check-in and Check-out

Length of stay is from Sunday evening through Friday morning.
Check-in on Sunday is from 5:00 p.m – 9:00 p.m.
Check-out is on Friday in the morning before the workshop sessions.
On the day of check-out, participants will be asked to bring a lock for their suitcase which can be left in the room while they finish the workshop. The lock is required as rooms will be serviced during the day on Friday.

Finding Real Joy This Christmas

Source Link: Retreat Center Arizon
By Laura Parrot Perry
Note: The following post originally appeared on the blog In Others’ Words. The author, Laura Parrott Perry, is a mother, an art teacher, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, and an advocate for fellow survivors. It is reposted here with her permission.

We careen through a season built for stillness and reverence.
We have a tendency to judge those people who manage eschew the madness. I mean, most good holiday movies have a character like that, right? We tend to chalk it up to being a grouch, or miserly, or having lost the meaning of Christmas.
I don’t know… I’ve always had a soft spot for His Grinchiness. I do love a curmudgeon. I think in many ways, the Green One was onto something. Listen closely to what he says- he’s not ranting about Christmas at all. He expresses dismay over “packages, boxes, and bags” and extravagant feasts. He rails against the “noise, noise, noise, noise.” None of that is Christmas. All of that is hustle.

We have a tendency to judge those people who manage eschew the madness. I mean, most good holiday movies have a character like that, right? We tend to chalk it up to being a grouch, or miserly, or having lost the meaning of Christmas.
I don’t know… I’ve always had a soft spot for His Grinchiness. I do love a curmudgeon. I think in many ways, the Green One was onto something. Listen closely to what he says- he’s not ranting about Christmas at all. He expresses dismay over “packages, boxes, and bags” and extravagant feasts. He rails against the “noise, noise, noise, noise.” None of that is Christmas. All of that is hustle.
‘Tis the season, all right. The season of HUSTLE.

I really began thinking about this a few weeks ago, in the lead up to Thanksgiving. This season is a particularly challenging time for survivors of childhood trauma. So much of our abuse happens within the family, and holidays often mean going home to the scene of the crime. Literally.

Are You Still Facebook Friends with your Ex?

What’s one of the first things people do when they break up with someone?
These days the most common answer is, “Check his or her Facebook page,” right?

So why do we do this? Why do we torture ourselves? Why is it so hard to delete them and start working on healing and moving forward?

Long, long ago, in the ancient olden days before Facebook, texting—even before the internets—when two people broke up the only way to remain in touch was to…

A) Ask their friends about them,
B) Call (and often hang up—until Caller ID was invented) or
C) Drive by their house (also known as “stalking.”)

There were no “check their status” or “see who posted on their wall” options. (Technically, this could also be called “stalking.”) Unfortunately, what modern technology can do is cause us to obsess more, feel jealous more, and stay stuck in the past.

So let’s review.

Facebook with your ex = Fear.

Deleting and moving forward = Faith.

The letting go, grieving, healing, and moving forward parts? Let those who want to help you do so. Seek support. Find healthy people and healthy activities to stay busy with. Go on a trip. Practice self-care. And whatever you do, don’t check your ex’s Facebook page. Delete it and block it. Treat it like detox from a drug. One day at a time. You can do it. Have some faith.

For more information call 866-835-5431 or visit.

Source Link : Internet Addiction

Eating Disorders Workshop Arizona

Food – everyone’s first love. Nobody could survive without food as we talk, but can you imagine food harming us? Scientifically, food pumps blood, produces energy and keeps our body healthy but it has flipside too like everything else. It could ruin us physically and mentally if it is abused. Just ask following questions to yourself based on your body type:

Do you feel you are getting fatter even if you are eating less – anorexia?

Or do you feel you are not getting fat even if your food intake is sufficient – obesity?

Or you think you have a problem of binge eating disorder?

  Thus, Rio Retreat Centre brings you Eating Disorder Workshop. Suffering from eating disorder, this Workshop for Eating Disorders is open to men and women at Remuda Ranch. Here, we provide workshop therapy for every kind of disorder. Be it overeating, under eating, fluctuate back and forth, or do both at the same time. This workshop helps you see your current struggles with food through the lens of your personal history. By participating in together meals, you learn to identify and separate your emotions and thoughts.

Thus, Rio Retreat and Remuda Ranch brings you Eating Disorder Workshop to cure every kind of disorder and to be free from it for life.

 every kind of disorder read more...

Six workshops for Personal growth…

Personal Growth workshop Arizona

Growth and development are two strong words as they can be in a life of an individual. Many of you must be still unaware about your own mental, physical, social and emotional health. It is very necessary for you to have knowledge about your own needs, wants, desires and places for improvement. Rio Retreat Centre at The Meadows brings you six different types of Self-Improvement Workshops and Personal Growth workshop to know your inner self. They are:

1. Men’s Sexual Recovery
   
   Men suffering from sexual addiction are often ashamed and embarrassed. Thus, we help them overcome their embarrassment and help them heal. This workshop is for active people who want their recovery faster and prevent relapse. Positivity is instigated in them such that they are taught to have productive experiences as well as to maintain positive relationships.

2. Spirit: A Somatic Equine Workshop

This workshop is held in rustic ranch near Wickenburg, Arizona. This program is very interesting as it consist of experiential activities with horses, and focusing on self-esteem, needs, desires, emotional regulation, and spontaneity.

3. Mind & Heart: A mindful path to wholehearted living

This workshop helps you maintain balance between mind and heart. We often get confused what to do and what not to do because of rationality of mind and correctness of heart. Thus, this workshop at Rio Retreat Centre helps in improving decisions and continues taking them correctly.

4. A Man’s Way™ Retreat

It is said that a man cannot be taught HOW TO BE A GENTLEMAN? Here, at Rio Retreat we teach them to be. We assist men to recover from trauma, with the help of curriculum by Dan Griffin. This five day intensive workshop is based upon books A Man’s Way through the Twelve Steps and A Man’s Way through Relationships by Dan Griffin.

Source Link : Personal Growth Workshops

The Meadows Alumni Rio Retreat

The Meadows Alumni Retreat is your opportunity to reconnect, reunite, recharge, and reignite.

This retreat is only for those who have participated in one of our 5-day intensive workshops, an intensive outpatient program at The Meadows Outpatient Center, or family week or inpatient treatment at The Meadows, Claudia Black Young Adult Center, Gentle Path at The Meadows, Dawn at The Meadows, Dakota House, or Mellody House. We look forward to creating an unforgettable weekend and reuniting you with your peers!

Early bird registration fee: $250 (prior to November 19, 2016)
Regular registration fee: $300 (November 19, 2016 and after)
The registration fee includes meals and program activities.
Please contact us for any dietary or special needs at alumni@themeadows.org.

Address : 1245 Jack Burden Road,
City : Wickenburg
State : Arizona
Zipcode : 85390
Country : United States
Phone: +1 800-244-4949

Referral Link : Grief Counseling Arizona

Tending the Garden of Our Souls

The girl was anxious, wanting to get back to the rose bush and save it from being ravaged by the beetle that was just doing what a beetle does. Already the pattern of codependence was set up. There I was at such a young age trying to stop the destruction that seemed an inevitable pattern of my family. As though the hunger of my fearful unhappy parents were just doing what they did to survive and the child was the rose. The analogy was daunting.

Tending to the garden of our soul is not something we think about often. But Spirit, in it's divine wisdom, set up a situation for me to heal the foundation of my roots as well as protect how I bloom.

A few months ago I was getting ready to set course with a production company on a project when Spirit told me, "We want you to heal some of your history." Hum, well, of course I wondered how that would happen, but our agendas or what we think about how such a thing can transpire is often contrary to what we WANT to have happen. I like to have things be loving and copacetic so that communication can be resolved in a harmonious way. But this time I could not make that happen because Spirit had a different idea.

Source Link : Relationship Therapy Workshop

Autumn Is a Time for Letting Go

I live in Arizona so I do not get the benefit of seeing the beautiful fall foliage colors that some of the other parts of the nation enjoy. However, I see plenty of pics of autumn colors posted all over social media from friends across the country.

One thing I always think about in the fall is, “What do I need to let go of? What do I need to address so that I can grow more next year?”

I was thinking about that last week as I facilitated a group that included a number of brave participants. Each had long-term, successful recovery in one area, but were still working to overcome issues that had presented themselves in other areas of their lives.



Are You Holding on to Your Pain?
The more insight we have into ourselves, the more likely we are to notice additional things that we need to work on. It is not uncommon for people in recovery to find other areas of their lives unmanageable.

Sometimes, the issues are just part of everyday life; but, for people in recovery, everyday life issues can increase the risk of relapse and bring more challenges to recovery. Some of these unresolved issues might include other addictions, relationship or family issues, unresolved childhood or adult trauma, unavoidable grief and loss, money and work issues, long-held resentments, or simply complacency that has halted their growth in recovery.

We may think we need to hold onto some of our pain because we are not sure who we would be without it. We might also feel that we need certain behaviors to cope or survive. At times, we compare our current issues to those we already addressed and deem them “less serious.” Then, we procrastinate on the additional emotional work that we need to do. Regardless of what the additional issues are, it is important to address them.

Living in Abundance: Balancing Work, Money, and Relationships is a five-day didactic, experiential, and psychodynamic intensive that will help you develop insights into your relationship to money and work.

Understand The Issues

Living in Abundance is a five-day intensive that will help you develop insights into your relationship to money and work.

Living in Abundance is a didactic, experiential and psychodynamic intensive lead by a facilitator trained in the area of financial and work disorders.

During the workshop, you will address a myriad of disorders including money obsession, work addiction, under earning, spending addiction, gambling, hoarding, deprivation, and codependence related to work and finances. The goals of this workshop are to help participants:

• Discover how your behavior related to money and work developed
• Recognize the rewards and costs of your behavior to one’s self and others
• Obtain a treatment plan which intervenes on existing behavior and fosters a healthy relationship with money and work that will also enhance your relationship with yourself and others, more about

Healing Heartache: A Grief And Loss Workshop

When you’ve experienced a loss ─ the death of a loved one, the loss of your health, the loss of a relationship, the loss of an opportunity, etc.─ it can be helpful to take time out to lean into your grief. It’s often difficult, if not impossible, to initiate the healing process in this way while also managing the day-to-day obligations of your life.

That’s why we offer “Healing Heartache: A Grief and Loss Workshop.” This 5-day workshop creates a safe and sacred space for exploring losses you’ve experienced throughout your lifetime. The program will help will help you understand and normalize your feelings through teachings on the cycle of grief and the patterns of destructive behavior. You also will participate in experiential exercises which will allow you to release words and feelings that have not yet been expressed. At the end of workshop, we’ll offer you the resources you need to move continue moving forward with hope and dignity.

We look forward to seeing there, and to helping you on your journey to stronger relationships and a brighter future.

Fear and Self-Doubt - Rio Retreat Center

I spent the rest of my week Rio Retreat Center at The Meadows—and the rest of the past year—returning to this incident and wondering why I had such a strong emotional reaction after only a few minutes of equine therapy. I still am not sure I fully understand, but I do know this—that one brief experience with that horse, drew into sharp focus many of the self-defeating beliefs I have and have always had about myself. It made me realize how often I face a challenge or difficult situation in my life by...

•     Assuming that I will fail.
•     Assuming that others will be embarrassed on my behalf or ashamed  
     of me if they see me failing.
•     Assuming that showing emotion equals failure.
•     Assuming that others will not understand if I need help.
•     Assuming that others will not forgive me if I need help.
•     Assuming that needing help equals failure.

I wish I could tell you that these realizations have eliminated all the fear of being vulnerable I’ve carried with me throughout my life—a fear that I think is closely tied to my bouts with depression. But, as they often say Rio Retreat Center at The Meadows, “It’s a process.”

Rio Retreat Bunkhouse

The Rio Retreat Bunkhouse is designed to be conducive to the process of healing and recovery. Book your stay at The Bunkhouse when you register for your workshop for added convenience, and more immersive healing environment.

Bunkhouse lodging is available on a first come, first serve basis; early registration is recommended.

Rooms and Accommodations

The rooms at The Bunkhouse are purposely free of the distractions that often accompany hotel lodging such as TVs and phones. Rooms are very simply furnished with two twin beds, storage space, an alarm clock, and luggage stand. All rooms have their own private bathroom.

Bunkhouse occupants will have access to the swimming pool during certain hours. Modest bathing suits are required.

A Sunday evening snack will be provided. Meals will be provided from Monday morning through Noon on Friday.