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Limerence: Love and the Brain

Limerence No doubt you’ve seen, or experienced for yourself, the state of limerence. The chaotic, sometimes even terrifying thoughts and feelings. The often irrational,...

Projection: Know Your Inner Experience

Depression

Primitive Emotional Defenses One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the...

The Pitfalls of Forgiveness

Relationships, Family & Love

Forgiving Too Easily Forgiveness is a tricky business. An interesting essay by Annette Roberts from Tiny Buddha leads us through the problem...

Judgment: The Consequences of Knowing

Relationships, Family & Love

From Unknowing to Knowing If "unknowing" leads us to non-judgment, then "knowing" leads us to judgment. If we think we know something, we start...

The Cloud of Unknowing

Philosophy & Psychology

"Not-Knowing" Vs. Certainty The concept or idea of "not-knowing" has a long history in spiritual teaching, going back thousands of years. In fact, Buddhism,...

Acceptance

Holistic Mental Health, Philosophy & Psychology

Training Ourselves to Accept What Is Acceptance is a simple enough idea but can be a challenge to master in practice. This week, we...

Art Therapy

Holistic Mental Health

Breaking the Cycle The time we spend in active addiction is all about destruction. Burning it all down. We burn through our stash and...

Kit Harington Checks Into Mental Wellness Center

Mental Health

What Next? As fans won't let us forget, the wildly successful Game of Thrones recently came to its conclusion. And as the media won't...

Self-Mastery

Philosophy & Psychology

Answering the Call of Self-Mastery Let go of whom you’ve become and grasp what you can be. What does it mean to live up...

Selfishness or Self-Care?

Relationships, Family & Love

Weaving In and Out We like to play with threads here at Barn Life Recovery, which should have been evident from our Warp and...

The End: a Good Spot for a New Beginning

Anxiety

The Old Nourishes the New Last week we explored beginnings. This week we prepare for the end. Some say that to start something new,...

New Beginnings at Barn Life Recovery

Mental Health

Rocky Starts and Face-plants Beginnings are rocky. In fact, beginnings are beset by difficulties. Easy beginnings are not beginnings at all by our definition....

Our Search for Meaning

OCD & ADHD, Philosophy & Psychology

Moving from How to Why In previous blogs, we offered some techniques for dealing with some of the things life throws our way. From...

Flowing With Stillness

Mental Health

Contemplation, Meditation...and Now What? We've gone over contemplation and meditation in our previous blogs. But how do we translate the peace of mind we...

An Exploration of Family Dynamics

Relationships, Family & Love

What is Family Dynamics? Family dynamics are the social and emotional structures that define the relationships between family members. Each family contains different...

Community: The Spiritual Aspect Of Recovery

Depression, Mental Health

One of the Few Constants This week here at Barn Life Recovery, we are taking some time to explore and understand groups. This topic...

Contemplation: The Next Step

Stress & Trauma

An Elusive State Hopefully, after reading our blog on meditation, a number of you went out and tried some sitting on your own. Like we've...

Retreatment at Barn Life Recovery

Holistic Mental Health

Retreatment, Defined Life is very short. Please investigate it closely. Retreatment means to put things down, to set things aside for a moment and...

Hear From Those We've Impacted

Barn Life is uniquely special. As someone who has had long stretches of sobriety with "traditional" communities and methods, Barn Life stepped in when I started struggling during the pandemic and said "traditional" methods failed to help.The staff here are exceptional. This is a truly subjective statement, but it is my honest opinion that the people from the owner (Hi Matt!) to EVERYONE else works there because they believe in the work and want to share the tools they found.Barn Life and their little sibling, Peer Mental Wellness were the launchpad from a shell of an existence to person with self-love/respect, and a life-mission of personal development.

Steven D.

Best for someone looking for spiritual healing in addition to their mental health healing.

Luka P.

Barn life is probably one of the most amazing facilities you could ever attend when it comes to mental illness. This was the first place that popped up when I was searching for help and I’m so thankful that it did. The environment is very therapeutic, the staff is awesome, and the group discussions and activities were so helpful in me understanding what I was experiencing. Do not hesitate to be a part of this place. It’s literally a game changer. I was only there for 6 weeks but I wished I stayed at least 6 months. Ever since returning home, I’ve been much happier and my perspective has changed dramatically. I’ve done things and participated in events at my college that I never thought I would be able to do. This place is truly amazing and I’m forever grateful that I found this place.

Ariana E.

Through trial and error of trying to stay sober this program is definitely the most caring and supporting of them all if anyone needs help and is willing to help themselves I suggest barnlife they will for a fact give you the push you need and the tools to keep you going

Mason T.

My daughter has been at Barn Life Recovery now for two months. It was my last resort to send her 9 hours away from me. She has been in drug and mental health rehabs in and out for two years. This was my last stitch effort to save my daughter and get her back to herself. Alyssa and I spoke multiple times before deciding. Their willingness to do everything for her and the different teams they have work with them is amazing. My daughter is happy again and clean and sober. She loves it there in their outpatient program. They restore your faith in humanity. They help restore someone who is broken in so many places to themselves. They have put the light back in my daughters eyes. They are committed to helping each person who truly wants the help. They assist in helping them get jobs and be responsible members of society. I recommend their program to anyone wanting to recover from drug, alcohol and mental health.Thank you to all the people at Barn Life who have made my daughter smile and bring the light back to her eyes. I am truly grateful.DawnaLee

DawnaLee W.

I am alumni from Zen Recovery Path / a great place , and live a happy healthy life ever since / great peaceful place to recover // Namaste

Michael M.

Barn Life Blog

Limerence: Love and the Brain

Projection: Know Your Inner Experience

The Pitfalls of Forgiveness

Judgment: The Consequences of Knowing

The Cloud of Unknowing

Acceptance

Art Therapy

Kit Harington Checks Into Mental Wellness Center

Self-Mastery

Selfishness or Self-Care?

The End: a Good Spot for a New Beginning

New Beginnings at Barn Life Recovery

Our Search for Meaning

Flowing With Stillness

An Exploration of Family Dynamics

Community: The Spiritual Aspect Of Recovery

Contemplation: The Next Step

Retreatment at Barn Life Recovery

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Hear From Those We've Impacted

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