The Mindful Alcoholic: How Meditation Helps Maintain Sobriety
Mindfulness is simply a regular practice that allows individuals to cultivate awareness, manage emotions, and build resilience – all vital skills for a lasting recovery.
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Mindfulness is simply a regular practice that allows individuals to cultivate awareness, manage emotions, and build resilience – all vital skills for a lasting recovery.
Obsessive thoughts can feel like a relentless cycle, particularly for those battling addiction. These intrusive ideas repeat endlessly, often fueling the very behaviors you’re trying to change. Mindfulness and meditation offer practical tools to help you step back from obsessive thinking and build a stronger foundation for recovery.
Renewal Lodge has teamed up with the Mindfulness In Recovery® Institute to provide an in-depth online course designed to empower individuals from all walks of life to cultivate resilience, reduce stress, and live with greater purpose and connection through mindfulness.
Mindfulness-Based treatment offers a transformative approach to addressing the complexities of personality disorders and addiction.
Anger is a funny emotion. It’s natural to feel antagonism when you have been wronged. Expressing anger can even be a positive thing–it allows you
Emotional intelligence is a guiding force that helps you succeed in all areas of life. To better understand how it can help with your mental
Your emotions are intricately linked with your mental health. In fact, we often describe the symptoms of different psychological conditions by using words that describe
Emotional intelligence is a necessary skill for managing your recovery. It helps you understand the sources of your addictions, respond constructively to your triggers and
Developing your emotional intelligence in recovery can help you thrive in every aspect of your life. This skill increases your resilience in the world. It
What is Mindfulness? “Mindfulness is not just being present in the moment. Mindfulness is how am I present in the moment in a way that
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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,