Living to Full Potential vs Managing emotions
In our society, depression and many other emotional issues are defined as a disease, a condition that is diagnosed medically, addressed with antidepressants and antipsychotic medications, and that should be managed in order to help the person be functional.
While managing symptoms may allow a person to deal with the excruciating pain of trauma in a time of crisis, management does not equal living to your fullest potential. Constant numbing of negative emotions may feel good short term, but it also may prevent you from feeling exuberant joy, a deep happiness and affectionate love towards your partner.
If you are someone who is fed-up with quick fixes and is ready to delve deep into the dark caves of underlying roots of your issues, to deal with cans of those old worms destroying your life, and let the fresh air of freedom enter your heart, Fresh Start is for you!
Healing your entire life
At Fresh Start, we see each guest coming with an entire life, including a host of family issues, broken relationships, physical health problems, insomnia, exhaustion, as well as unhealthy eating habits and thought patterns.
Trying to treat depression as a purely mental disease without touching those underlying or adjacent issues would be only a temporal patch. A patch is a patch; it will not make the roof brand new. If you want to get better on a deep level, you need to look beyond managing emotions or controlling symptoms.
It is not all in your head
When your hormones are out of whack, your nervous system is wired up, and your eating habits are out of control, talk therapy alone may not be enough. This is why we do not work with just anxiety or just with PTSD. Using an integrative approach, we address with you in-depth 4 areas of you:
Emotional/Energetic
Mental
Habits
Physical
Fresh Start Emotional Wellness Program Benefits
You will get assistance with:
- Release emotional trauma and negative emotions (one-on-one emotional wellness sessions, body work, hydrotherapy treatments)
- Learn stress coping mechanisms (meditation, yoga)
- Brain and body chemistry rebalancing (whole body detox and health drinks)
- Stabilize nervous and hormonal systems (nature therapy, supplementation)
- Begin restoration of digestive and other organs (healthy nutrition and rehydration)
- Energy restoration (nature therapy, scheduled rest periods)
- Emotional resilience restoration (aromatherapy, wraps)
- Lifestyle habits re-patterning (health education, food demos, fitness)
- Work on addictions (Quit Smoking Program, Mild Social Drinking, Emotional Eating re-patterning are available)
- Relaxation and rejuvenation (ocean air, semi-flexible schedule, retreat setting, sleep support)
Why Does it Work?
Fresh Start is a retreat with a comprehensive Emotional Wellness program, with multiple healing methods, multiple therapists’ expertise and a semi-flexible multi-faceted healing structure. The program provides you with full immersion into a healing environment and a get-away from your day-to-day life.
Many guests who come to us have been referred by their counsellor, life coach, and some after completing a rehab program. At Fresh Start Retreat, we have unique resources that may be difficult to access when at home or in a clinical setting. The process and various elements of the program are well put together in a way they work synergistically and customized individually to bring maximum results. This allows most people to see significant improvements in their state in a relatively short period of time, enjoy the process and rejuvenate on a deep level.
When you feel better, you make better decisions and handle situations with ease.
Issues Hide in Tissues
Dr. Michael Gersh
on from Columbia University has discovered that our intestines contain approximately 100 million nervous cells (more than in our entire spinal cord), 30 neurotransmitters (just like the brain), plus 95% of body serotonin is located in the bowels. Those neurons are going all the way from the esophagus to the anus, approximately 9 metres, and are called the enteric nervous system, or the “gut’s brain.”
Dr. Gershon states that besides regulating fluids and enzymes released during the process of digestion, the “gut brain” influences a big part of our emotions. In fact, 90% of our primary nerve, the vagus, carries information from the gut. Scientists affirm that very soon, psychiatrists will need to expand their treatment of emotional issues to the second brain. This is just one example of how interconnected are our body and emotions. You know well that stress may cause constipation or diarrhea.
During your program, we not only work with your emotional well-being but also aim to stabilize the digestive system, address unhealthy sleep patterns, as well as hormonal and nervous system imbalances.
Emotional Wellbeing Through Physical Health
Session after session, our guests get surprised by how interconnected emotional state is with physical wellbeing. After working for 15+ years with people suffering from emotional issues, we know it is virtually impossible to work on one without the other. We dedicate a lot of time to the physical body.
In each program, we see how when working through the body, with those tense tendons, or cleansing of the digestive system and liver, people start releasing not just tension and toxins but expel a huge amount of emotions, not serving them anymore.
For example, one of our guests came with major knots in the upper back she carried for many, many years, her shoulders and neck were hurting all the time. The more she let go emotionally, the better her body felt, the more relaxed her muscles got, until in combination with structural body treatments and energy work, the knots eventually completely disappeared.
Main Reason Why Guests Choose Fresh Start
It is a transformational program that works inside out!
While with us, you nourish your body with quality foods, health drinks and supplements, learn healthy lifestyle habits and receive emotional wellness education, work with experienced emotional wellness specialists one-on-one, have scheduled periods of rest, and replenish yourself with daily therapies yoga and meditation.
You are surrounded by loving and caring staff supporting you on your health journey. As a result, an amazing transformation of the body, mind and habits can happen, for you to leave refreshed, alive and with a spark in your eyes.
How Do We Help You (Methods We Use in detail)?
How Do We Help You (Methods We Use in detail)?
