Our Vision

Discover and Connect With Your Core Values
OUR VISION STATEMENT
Our vision as a clinical team is to educate our clients on the root cause of their problems: substance use disorders, mental health issues, and behavioral issues; as well as the solutions for these problems and conditions. Our vision is to help our clients discover and connect with their core values, while being guided by our core values of love, kindness, compassion, honesty, dignity, and excellence. Our overall vision as a clinical team is to enable our clients to live a more authentic, mindful life of excellence that is in alignment with their core values.
OUR VALUES
OUR MISSION STATEMENT

Our mission as a clinical team is to provide individualized, supportive, nonjudgmental, and compassionate care to those who suffer from substance use disorders and other mental health and behavioral issues. Our clinical team members believe in treating our client's underlying core problems, helping them connect with their values, and helping them heal mentally, emotionally, behaviorally, and spiritually. As a clinical team, we strive to instill the skills and tools needed to help our clients discover and connect with their values, achieve and sustain long-term recovery, and live a more authentic, mindful life of excellence.

OUR GOALS
Create a safe, caring environment for our clients to heal and do the work that they need to do to gain insight about themselves and to engage with the solutions to their problems.
Help our clients identify any attachments that are causing them dissatisfaction and taking them away from their core values and goals.
Help our clients discover and connect to their core values.
Help our clients learn about the 12 Step program of recovery and how to live it.
Help our clients learn about the skill of mindfulness and how it can aid them in their recovery.
Educate our clients on how mindfulness practice and the program of the 12 Steps complement one another.
Utilize ACT and REBT concepts and skills to help our clients identify where they have been psychologically inflexible and engaged in unworkable action.
Utilize ACT and REBT concepts and skills to educate our clients on how they can be psychologically flexible and commit to engaging in workable action.
Help our clients learn how to live an authentic, mindful life that is in alignment with their core values.

Help our clients identify any barriers to them living by their core values.

Help our clients heal mentally, emotionally, behaviorally, and spiritually.
Help our clients be aware of any inconsistencies between their values and their thoughts and behaviors.
Help our clients identify those beliefs, thoughts, and behaviors that align with their core values and move them towards their goals.

Educate our clients and families on the importance of aftercare to help them achieve success in establishing and maintaining long-term recovery.

Dear Renewal Lodge Visitors,

My name is John Bruna, co-founder of the Mindfulness in Recovery® Institute, and more importantly, a grateful member of the recovery community. I am incredibly fortunate to have found my recovery in 1984. Of course, I did not achieve continuous recovery through willpower or my own efforts, but through the guidance and caring support of countless others that selflessly taught me how to live through the 12 Steps.

My journey of recovery brought this once homeless, shame-based, traumatized, insecure young man to a life far beyond anything I could have ever imagined. I discovered self-worth, the joy of helping others, the gifts of parenting and grandparenting, and most importantly the ability to live a meaningful and purposeful life with integrity.

One of the greatest gifts of recovery is that I have the opportunity to give back and help others discover their self-worth, dignity, and the skills to fully live lives that they find truly meaningful. This is the inspiration for developing the skills of Mindfulness in Recovery® (MIR) to meet the needs of new generations struggling with alcohol and other substance use disorders. MIR is a set of evidence-based skills designed to help people fully integrate their tools of recovery in ways that are personalized, practical, and in alignment with their deepest values.

While we train counselors and therapists throughout the United States and abroad, I personally have chosen to work directly with the amazing team and clients at Renewal Lodge to develop the model MIR 12-step program for the nation. I choose Renewal Lodge because of the vision of its mission and the dedication of its team. Renewal Lodge is an extremely rare environment in which the staff embodies the very mindfulness and 12-step practices and skills they offer their clients. The results have been beyond my expectations. It is an honor to be here and I treasure my personal time with every client I meet.

With Gratitude,

John Bruna
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John Bruna
Director of Mindfulness
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