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!
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.
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:
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.
Dr. Michael Gersh
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.
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.
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.
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