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Should You Consider Alternative Treatments for Your Anxiety Disorder and Panic Attacks?

Should You Consider Alternative Treatments for Your Anxiety Disorder?

Should You Consider Alternative Treatments for Your Anxiety Disorder and Panic Attacks? A million adults in the US struggle with some type of anxiety disorder, making them some of the most common mental health issues in the country. Those with severe anxiety may even suffer from panic attacks – episodes of intense fear that can […]

How Meditation Helps Us Move Beyond Addiction

How Meditation Helps Us Move Beyond Addiction

How Meditation Helps Us Move Beyond Addiction. By now, most of us well know that meditation can promote positive brain change. But did you know that it also holds huge advantages for addiction recovery? Among its bountiful benefits, mindfulness holds the key to reversing substance dependency, trauma, anxiety, and depression. Here, we examine how. Proven […]

Why Suboxone is Not the Solution to Getting off Heroin

Why Suboxone is Not the Solution to Getting off Heroin

Buprenorphine (more commonly known by its brand names, Suboxone, Subutex and Zubsolv) is one of just three federally approved medications to treat opioid addiction. But because of its intense narcotic effects, many people who are initially introduced to it as part of their tapering program end up misusing it by snorting or injecting it to […]

Breaking Free From Old Routines: Alternative Treatments for Marijuana Addiction

Escape Old Routines: Alternative Treatments for Marijuana Addiction

Understanding Cannabis Addiction Breaking Free From Old Routines: Alternative Treatments for Marijuana Addiction. Marijuana legalization initiatives swept the states in recent years, where recreational marijuana is legal in 10 states and medicinal marijuana is legal in 33. Yet, even though increasingly legal, it’s alarming that the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) reports that 18 […]

Energy Medicine: Releasing Frozen Trauma to Restore Balance

Healing trauma holistically requires a deep understanding of the relationships between your physical, emotional, spiritual and energetic selves. Cultures around the world have long practiced healing techniques that center on the flow of life force, based on the premise that all human beings are made up of energy. At The Sanctuary, we apply this healing […]

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Energy Psychology: How the Mind-Body-Energy Connection Treats Trauma

Therapeutic techniques that go beyond conventional talk therapy to fully address the mind, body, and spirit are gaining popularity as effective methods for healing trauma and PTSD. Here, we take a look at proven energy psychology techniques that can help you move past trauma that’s manifesting as undesirable outcomes in your life, so you can […]

Codependency and The Need to be Needed

Sometimes it’s nice to feel needed – knowing that your partner, family or friends can rely on you can be rewarding and strengthen the bonds of your relationships. But needing to be needed is highly toxic to your mental health and your relationships. This need, known as codependency, is defined as “an excessive and pervasive […]

A Coherent Life - At The Heart of Sustainable Addiction Recovery

A Coherent Life – At The Heart of Sustainable Addiction Recovery

HeartMath at The Sanctuary A Coherent Life – At The Heart of Sustainable Addiction Recovery. HeartMath is a therapeutic modality founded in well-documented research from the field of neurocardiology. Informed by the heart’s critical role in our overall health, HeartMath sessions are conducted with simple, user-friendly technology through which our clients can access, monitor, and […]

How Trauma Can Result in Codependency

How Trauma Can Result in Codependency

Trauma causes extensive damage to one’s emotional well-being, physical health and relationships. A person living with trauma may be more likely to feel completely and destructively dependent on another person, which is called a codependent relationship. Codependency can develop in families and platonic and intimate relationships. It is essential to identify the central problem responsible […]

Benefits of Superfoods and The Sanctuary Food Paradigm

Benefits of Superfoods and The Sanctuary Food Paradigm

More and more people are learning about the benefits of superfoods. We live in a time of unprecedented abundance bursting with incredible opportunities for healing at record-breaking speed and efficiency! We are currently the inheritors of a vast encyclopedia of traditional medicinal systems developed over thousands of years from many diverse regions across the planet. […]