What People Say About Our Healing Center and Non 12-Step Recovery Programs

I was broken. I had been to several conventional treatment centers, rehabs that used the social model, The traditional treatment center type 12 step model, and I continued to suffer from my addictions. I followed all of the advice that was given to me. I went to meetings every day for years. I had a sponsor, I sponsored others. I completed the steps several times. I knew deep down that I needed more but I had the hardest time accepting the truth of my life. When I found The Sanctuary I was at my wits end. I had recently suffered from a horrible relapse with real and dire consequences and I knew that I was on the precipice of a huge turning point in my life. My experience at The Sanctuary was more than I could have ever imagined. The mysteries of my behaviors were revealed to me in a gentle, loving way, but a powerful and deeply impacting way. There was a simple path that I could follow, it was not easy, and the program at The Sanctuary required all of my focus and energy, but for every ounce of energy I put in, the experienced and professional staff at The Sanctuary put in so much more. It was through the real care for my well-being, and the acceptance without judgment that I was finally able to release the years of pain and just become the person that I knew I was. I no longer consider myself to be “an alcoholic and an addict”. Today I am simply completely free from all addictive behaviors. I know I can never go back, but from here, I would never want to go back. The life I have before me is finally a reflection of all the best parts of me, and I will be forever grateful to those that referred me to The Sanctuary, to myself for taking the chance, and to Dean and Kelley particularly for creating such a masterpiece. If you are on the fence, please, feel the truth of my words and consider reading them again. I wish for you all the freedom that I have found through my experience at The Sanctuary.

Multiple visits to rehab and jail had not relieved me of my obsession to stay as numb as I possibly could. In a matter of just 30 days, I was completely relieved of the deadly obsession and compulsion for any drugs! Two and a half years later, I can honestly say, I have never again experienced the desire to use them either. I will forever be grateful for the grace of the staff at The Sanctuary who helped me receive the miracle of healing!

I recommend The Sanctuary to anyone looking for inner peace and fulfilling your highest purpose. It has changed my life forever.

I came to The Sanctuary lost, looking for something but not sure what. I found healing at The Sanctuary. I found what I was looking for; spiritual wholeness, a deeper connection with my higher power and a sense of joy - a hope for a better tomorrow.

At The Sanctuary I got to the core of my issues; to my heart. To have relief at the deepest level of my being from things I carried around with me for so long is priceless and profound.

After decades of unsuccessful trips to therapist, church counseling and going in and out of codependent relationships all while building a successful career climbing the corporate ladder, I was miserable. My life was lost and empty with an overwhelming feeling of hopelessness. It took the courage of letting go of old scripts, broadening my belief system and allowing myself the blessing of trusting a true connection to something so much greater than i could have ever imagined and restructuring who I was on a cellular level.

It required letting go of fear and unplugging from my old life and plugging into four weeks at The Sanctuary that accomplished what paying tens of thousands of dollars for professional treatment and searching outside of myself for a solution could never have accomplished. I live each day with a new level of understanding, living in the present with a new feeling of purpose and knowingness of who I truly am.

My experience at The Sanctuary was extremely enriching. The Sanctuary provides a full healing environment in which to work through problems and patterns we are ready to let go of.

It is difficult to explain what The Sanctuary did for me as I can still feel my new self slowly morphing everyday into the person I was always meant to become.

I think the worst side of depression and addictions is the fear of a lifetime of struggle. We are taught that somehow, some of us were born broken or broke beyond repair at some point. We are taught that the best we can hope for is a life of coexistence with our struggles were all we can do is manage the symptoms of our brokenness. Those beliefs were always contradictory to what I believed us, as humans, are capable of and yet I couldn't find a "program" that taught otherwise until I found The Sanctuary.

The Sanctuary didn't heal me, it taught me how to heal myself.
The Sanctuary didn't teach me how to live with my addictions; it taught me a path to COMPLETE recovery.
The Sanctuary didn't save me, it taught me how to save myself.

And for this I will forever be grateful.