How Love Addiction Keeps You From Finding True LoveArticlesBy The RanchMay 22, 2017 Love addiction is a tricky thing. You can convince yourself that you just love love. But if your love of love, romance, dating and a bad partner start to interfere with your life, you have to admit that you have a problem. Perhaps the saddest thing about having a love addiction is that it… Details
Efforts to Avoid Porn Can Actually Promote Cybersex AddictionArticlesBy The RanchMay 19, 2017Recent evidence from a team of German scientists indicates that purposeful attempts to avoid pornographic material on the Internet can potentially promote the onset of cybersex addiction, just like a tendency to actively seek out pornographic material. People with cybersex addiction have a form of behavioral addiction centered on the use of modern Internet technology… Details
PTSD and Personal Trauma Taught Me How to Help OthersArticles, From Our Experts>TennesseeBy The RanchMay 18, 2017By Timothy L. Hook, LMSW, CSAT-C, Primary Therapist at The Ranch Trauma and PTSD can devastate individuals. It also pulls families apart. I know this all too well, not just as a counselor at The Ranch, but as someone who’s been exposed to it through childhood trauma and military deployments. You’d think that 14 deployments… Details
6 Transformational Lessons of Addiction TherapyArticles>Addiction Treatment, From Our Experts>TennesseeBy The RanchMay 17, 2017By Alisha Irby, MS, Primary Therapist, Men’s Co-Occurring Disorders Program at the Ranch Sometimes people do not succeed on the first try for sobriety — or the seventh — and then, one day, timing or circumstances bring a new opportunity to truly begin the journey of a lifetime of recovery. As you travel down this… Details
Deception and Control Dominate Signs of Sex AddictionArticlesBy The RanchMay 16, 2017For people with sex addiction, sex comes to overshadow all other aspects of their lives. And yet, simply having a lot of sex is not the most significant or most reliable sign of sex addiction. Instead, it’s the things that go along with frequent sexual activity that suggest sex has gone from being a healthy… Details
6 Ways Yoga Helps With Depression and AddictionArticles>Mental Health, Articles>Recovery at The Ranch, Depression, From Our Experts>TennesseeBy The RanchMay 11, 2017By Valerie Martin, LCSW, RYT, Trauma Therapist and Yoga Instructor at The Ranch With the explosion of yoga in the west over the past two decades, it’s clear that this ancient tradition is shedding its old reputation as an esoteric practice exclusively for the spiritually devout. It’s also not just for those who consider themselves… Details
The Connection Between Social Anxiety Disorder and AddictionHelpful ArticlesBy The RanchMay 9, 2017Victims of social anxiety disorder (SAD) are exceptionally vulnerable to substance abuse problems. Studies have revealed that up to 20%nof all SAD sufferers have struggled with alcohol abuse issues, and drug abuse rates among the socially anxious are also disturbingly common.
3 Adventure Therapies for Addiction That Promote Spiritual GrowthArticles>Recovery at The Ranch, Articles>Therapy, From Our Experts>TennesseeBy The RanchMay 3, 2017By Megan Repass, MS, LADAC-II, CCM, EAGALA-C, Director of Adventure and Equine Therapy at The Ranch Ana was in treatment for drug addiction and working on her tendency toward morbid rumination. Obsessive thought overwhelmed her, making it almost impossible for her to get out of her own head. But as someone who’d spent much of… Details
6 Ways High Ropes Therapy Helps You Fly Out of Your Comfort ZoneArticles>TherapyBy The RanchMay 3, 2017By Megan Repass, MS, LADAC-II, CCM, EAGALA-C, Director of Adventure and Equine Therapy at The Ranch Laurel nervously climbed the tall pole. Once she made it to the top she tried to balance her weight on the small platform. Her ultimate destination was back down ― but the ground was 80 feet below and jumping… Details
Does the Real You Match the ‘You’ You Present?ArticlesBy The RanchApril 28, 2017 We’ve all heard that the first impression is the most important. Have your shoes match your belt. Be on time. Remember your manners. But if the self you show others on first impression is obscured behind a mask, what does the other person really see? Is it you, or what you want them to… Details
