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Anhedonia: Explained

Anhedonia is the inability to experience pleasure from activities once enjoyed, and is a common byproduct of other mental health conditions, including depression and...

How to Build a Self Care Plan

Mental Health

Where our focus goes, energy flows. And all too often, our focus goes towards things external to us - work, family, friends, and so...

Conscious Living: The Path to Increased Confidence

Mental Health

There’s no doubt that these modern times we live in support routines, multi-tasking, and endless distractions, making it easy to get caught up in...

Euphoric in Sobriety? It May be Pink Clouding

Mental Health, Recovery & Addiction

What is Pink Clouding? Recovery from drug and alcohol disorders is a complex journey filled with highs, lows, and everything in between. Many...

The 4 Stages of Depression

Depression, Mental Health

Most of us will experience the symptoms of depression in our lifetime. While it may not escalate to a formal diagnosis for all of...

What’s The Difference: Panic Attack vs. Anxiety Attack

Anxiety, Mental Health

Panic Attack vs. Anxiety Attack Experiencing occasional anxiety can be a normal part of life. Anxiety is simply the body’s response to a perceived...

How to Recover From Burnout

Mental Health, Stress & Trauma

What is Burnout? Stress, overwork, and super packed schedules can all contribute to cognitive overload, leaving you feeling emotionally drained and easily overwhelmed....

Types of PTSD, Explained

Mental Health

Introduction to PTSD Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder that develops following a traumatic experience or series of events. Examples of such...

What is Wet Brain and Can it Be Cured?

Mental Health, Recovery & Addiction

What is Wet Brain? Wet brain, more formally known as Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome (WKS), is a brain disorder caused by severe vitamin B1 (Thiamine) deficiency....

12 Over the Counter Anxiety Treatments

Anxiety, Mental Health

Nearly a fifth of all adults suffer from an anxiety disorder. Each one of those anxiety disorders has different levels of severity, triggers, and...

Occupational Therapy Student Joins Our Staff

Mental Health, OCD & ADHD

Barn Life Recovery Receives Occupational Therapy Student From Baylor University Barn Life Recovery is partnering with Baylor University on an occupational therapy internship...

How to Increase Dopamine

Depression, Grief & Loss, Mental Health

The Best Ways to Increase Dopamine If something has ever made you smile, then you’ve experienced dopamine. Dopamine is a chemical made by your...

The Importance of Practicing Self Love

Depression, Mental Health, Recovery & Addiction

Experiencing a Lack of Self Love Let’s try a thought experiment to illustrate a point concerning the way we treat our bodies. We’ll...

Transactional Analysis: The Games People Play

Mental Health, Philosophy & Psychology

What is Transactional Analysis? If you count the number of therapeutic modalities currently used in psychotherapy worldwide, you’ll probably find hundreds, if not more....

Borderline Personality Disorder Stories

Bipolar Disorder, Mental Health

Borderline Personality Disorder and Mythology You may never see it coming. The defenses can be aggressive, frigid, fiery, slithering, and destabilizing. Borderline personality...

What is Respect?

Mental Health, Relationships, Family & Love

Weekly Theme: What is Respect? Growing up we learned that respect is saying please and thank you, making eye contact when shaking hands, or...

Improvisation: Flexibility and Creativity for Mental Wellness

Mental Health, Stress & Trauma

Improving Mental Wellness with Improvisation What is improvisation, anyway? Google a definition and you’ll get “the act of improvising” - helpful, isn’t it? Let’s...

Returning to the Present

Holistic Mental Health, Mental Health

Sometimes you hear a pull to return Like a fish out of water hears the waves Or a falcon hears the wind “Come back,...

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.

Category: Mental Health

Anhedonia: Explained

How to Build a Self Care Plan

Conscious Living: The Path to Increased Confidence

Euphoric in Sobriety? It May be Pink Clouding

The 4 Stages of Depression

What’s The Difference: Panic Attack vs. Anxiety Attack

How to Recover From Burnout

Types of PTSD, Explained

What is Wet Brain and Can it Be Cured?

12 Over the Counter Anxiety Treatments

Occupational Therapy Student Joins Our Staff

How to Increase Dopamine

The Importance of Practicing Self Love

Transactional Analysis: The Games People Play

Borderline Personality Disorder Stories

What is Respect?

Improvisation: Flexibility and Creativity for Mental Wellness

Returning to the Present

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