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Alcohol Awareness Month: “Changing Attitudes: It’s not a rite of passage”

April 11th, 2018 // Dr. Georgia Fourlas, LCSW, LISAC, CSAT-S // Tags: addiction, alcohol, therapy, treatment

The National Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependence (NCADD) is promoting their 32nd Annual Alcohol Awareness month this April. The theme for this year encompasses the idea...

“Eating Disorder Relapse Prevention” Twitter Chat

March 5th, 2018 // The Meadows Ranch Team // Tags: anorexia, bulemia, eating disorder treatment, eatingdisorders, featured, treatment

Eating Disorder Hope: Good afternoon everyone! Welcome to our Eating Disorder Hope Twitter Chat! Eating Disorder Hope: Today, we are featuring our special guest, James Runyan, Executive Director of...

How to Create Your Own Meditation Space in Your Home

January 29th, 2018 // The Meadows Ranch Team // Tags: Eating Disorders, meditation, mental health, therapy, treatment

What if you could create the perfect meditation space in your home? Carving out a private enclave for meditation doesn’t have to be tough, whether you’re living...

Healing the Roots of Women’s Sexual and Relational Struggles

January 25th, 2018 // The Meadows Ranch Team // Tags: abandonment, healing, therapy, trauma, treatment

Is it any wonder why girls and women struggle with feeling comfortable in their own skin? There is such a deep and contradictory connection between the messages...

A Treatment Plan for a Horse Called Nip

January 24th, 2018 // The Meadows Ranch Team // Tags: anorexia, bulimia, eating disorder treatment, equine therapy, therapy, trauma, treatment

One particular adult patient named Jill came to equine therapy for an individual session soon after arriving on campus. Like Nip, she too was new to the...

Reality! Who needs it?

January 18th, 2018 // The Meadows Ranch Team // Tags: mental health, therapy, treatment

What is your reality anyway? As a baby, your brain was in a receptive mode and you downloaded and duplicated everything around you. As you grew up,...

Healing Through Experiential Therapies

November 20th, 2017 // The Meadows Ranch Team // Tags: eating disorder treatment, Eating Disorders, healing, recovery, treatment

By providing a relaxed and non-judgmental environment, even individuals who are unfamiliar with an art room and proclaim to have no artistic talent, soon find themselves engrossed...

For Family Advocate Jerry Law, Freedom is Recovery’s Greatest Gift

October 11th, 2016 // The Meadows Ranch Team // Tags: addiction, addiction help, addiction recovery, help for alcohol addiction, recovery, treatment, treatment for addiction

DAN: What is the greatest gift recovery has given you toward being the man you always knew you could be? JERRY: Really, there’s a one-word answer for...

An Eating Disorder Survivor Shares What She’s Learned

August 19th, 2016 // The Meadows Ranch Team // Tags: anorexia, eating disorder, recovery, treatment

In her pre-teen years, her anorexia was so severe she had to be hospitalized. While she was in the hospital, she had a heart attack brought on...

Accepting the Past as an Asset in Recovery

May 2nd, 2016 // The Meadows Ranch Team // Tags: acceptance, addiction, Eating Disorders, recovery, treatment

What is Acceptance? Acceptance is defined as "the act of taking or receiving something offered." Sometimes I really have to stop and take inventory of the things...