Inner Child Therapy in Recovery: How Stuffed Animals Help Heal Childhood TraumaArticlesBy The RanchAugust 15, 2017By Rebecca Wilson, MS, Primary Therapist, The Ranch I’m not worthy. I’m not good enough. I am unlovable. Women who have survived childhood trauma often have many negative core beliefs. As very young children they may have been abused or neglected and the wounds and low self-esteem follow them into adolescence and adulthood. Some wounds… Details
What to Do When Depression Treatments Aren’t WorkingArticlesBy The RanchAugust 14, 2017Depression treatments such as medications and psychotherapy have come a long way in the past few decades. However, they still don’t always work for everyone. If you are struggling to find a depression treatment that works for you, keep fighting by trying these alternative options.
Sex & MemoryArticlesBy The RanchAugust 9, 2017Healthy sex is a gratifying experience in many ways and recent research shows that it may also make people smarter and improve their memory — especially among women under 30 and both men and women as they age. Why do sex and memory go hand-in-hand? Details
How Common Is Antisocial Personality Disorder?ArticlesBy The RanchAugust 8, 2017Antisocial personality disorder treatment can provide great benefits for those living with the challenges of the disorder. The name of the condition is slightly deceiving; antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) has nothing to do with a disinterest in hanging out with people. Instead, it is defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual as “a pervasive pattern… Details
The Miracle Question That Can Help Keep Sobriety on TrackArticles, From Our Experts>TennesseeBy The RanchAugust 7, 2017By Alisha Irby, MS, Primary Therapist, Men’s Co-Occurring Disorders Program at The Ranch Imagine that one night while you were asleep there was a miracle, and the problem that brought you here is solved. However, because you are asleep, you don’t know that the miracle has happened. When you wake up in the morning, what… Details
There Are Many Paths to Successful Recovery: An Interview With Julie BakleyArticles>Recovery at The RanchBy The RanchAugust 4, 2017Many people in the addiction treatment and recovery community feel that we have to give up the single pathway recovery model and adopt a multiple pathway model that is conducive to the needs of each individual, while also taking into account multiple patterns of addiction. This means using a variety of treatment approaches, recovery philosophies… Details
You Don’t Have to Be Religious to Feel the Power of Spirit in RecoveryArticlesBy The RanchAugust 3, 2017By Julie Bakley, MSW, LCSW, Primary Therapist, The Ranch There are different ways to get sober and live life free from addiction, but many people who quit alcohol or drugs stumble and falter early on in their sobriety. Often this is because they don’t respond to the religious or spiritual aspects of 12-step meetings or… Details
EMDR Therapy for PhobiasArticlesBy The RanchAugust 2, 2017As a way to reprocess and re-categorize past traumatic experiences, EMDR therapy holds great promise for the treatment of phobias. Since EMDR is a relatively underpublicized form of mental health treatment, you may be asking: what is EMDR therapy and can it really help me overcome my most intense, paralyzing fears?
Alcohol Abuse Facts and Stats: The Latest DataArticlesBy The RanchJuly 31, 2017Misuse of alcohol is extremely common in the U.S., with 138.3 million people ages 12 and older stating they regularly drank alcohol, according to the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Of those, 48.2% reported engaging in binge drinking the month prior to taking the survey. Not everyone who drinks excessively develops alcohol… Details
Bipolar 2 & Pregnancy: What Medications Are Safe?ArticlesBy The RanchJuly 28, 2017Bipolar 2 involves a pattern of one or more major depressive episodes and at least one hypomanic episode. Although individuals do not experience the same degree of manic symptoms as in bipolar 1, depressive episodes can be severe. As a result, bipolar 2 may be misdiagnosed as major depression because manic episodes are unrecognized or… Details
