Healing Your Relationship With Food: Part 1: Understanding the Mental Ties Part 2: The Physical Aspects Part 3: Emotional Eating Part 4: Restricting Food Due to Anxiety/Depression or for Weight Loss Part 5: Restricting Food Because of Busyness or a Fear of Pain Our relationship with food is deeply ... Read More
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Healing Your Relationship with Food: Part 3, Emotional Eating
Healing Your Relationship with Food: Pt. 2, The Physical Aspects
Healing Your Relationship With Food: Part 1: Understanding the Mental Ties Part 2: The Physical Aspects Part 3: Emotional Eating Part 4: Restricting Food Due to Anxiety/Depression or for Weight Loss Part 5: Restricting Food Because of Busyness or a Fear of Pain If you've ever felt disconnected from ... Read More
Medical Massage Therapy in Mental Health Rehab: A Q&A with an Expert
Therapeutic massage is an ancient practice, having evolved over thousands of years to comprise a range of techniques and modalities. “Medical massage therapy," the application of massage therapy to treat medical conditions, is a more recent concept. The practice first gained ground in the mid 20th century. Since then, ... Read More
Healing Your Relationship With Food: Pt.1, Understanding the Mental Ties
Healing Your Relationship With Food: Part 1: Understanding the Mental Ties Part 2: The Physical Aspects Part 3: Emotional Eating Part 4: Restricting Food Due to Anxiety/Depression or for Weight Loss Part 5: Restricting Food Because of Busyness or a Fear of Pain We rarely think about where our ... Read More
The Challenges of Returning to Civilian Life: An Expert’s Insights
The transition from active military duty to civilian life can be challenging on multiple fronts for veterans. Raymond (“Ray”) McDaniel knows. As a clinical therapist and a program lead for Shatterproof FHE Health, our specialized treatment program for first responders, McDaniel has come alongside many people who in ... Read More
Peer Support for First Responders: Insights from an Expert
First responders with addiction or mental health needs face many barriers that keep them from seeking treatment, from stigma and lack of time to a fear of being perceived as weak or unfit to serve. This reality helps to explain why, when at least 60 percent of first responders report they need treatment, less than half ... Read More
The Benefits of Integral Breathing for Relapse Prevention
Relapse prevention is an important conversation for anyone in recovery. Ideally, it starts during treatment. The goal is to learn and practice new coping skills for managing stress and other triggers in life after rehab. Many of these tools, (exercise, therapy, support groups, etc.), are well-known for their ... Read More
What It’s Like to Respond to an Overdose Emergency
Trigger Warning: This article contains language about overdose that could be triggering for some people. The overdose epidemic in this country has continued to outpace itself. Drug overdose deaths, most of which were opioid-related, hit a new high in 2022. For every one of these 109,000 deaths, there were many ... Read More