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Euphoric in Sobriety? It May be Pink Clouding

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

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....

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...

Inner Alchemy

Philosophy & Psychology, Recovery & Addiction

Inner Alchemy: An Introduction to Transformation Let us start with a brief explanation of the history of alchemy and why it is...

Inner Child Healing

Holistic Mental Health, Recovery & Addiction, Stress & Trauma

Inner Child Healing: A Meditation Exercise Your inner child is exactly what it sounds like. Specifically, little you inside of adult you. In other...

Nurturing the Unique Genius of the Soul

Philosophy & Psychology, Recovery & Addiction

… All I did was give him a look of confident expectation. An infant learning to walk, you know he can learn to walk,...

Albedo Alchemy

Mental Health, Philosophy & Psychology, Recovery & Addiction

Albedo Alchemy: Purification Through Light Albedo alchemy is the second stage major stage of magnum opus. Following the decomposition of the nigredo comes...

A Deeper Look at the Nigredo

Holistic Mental Health, Philosophy & Psychology, Recovery & Addiction

"Abandon hope, all ye who enter here!" – Dante, Inferno, Canto 3 This morning, while writing on the Nigredo, I ordered a...

The Soul In Harmony With Itself

Grief & Loss, Recovery & Addiction

The Wisdom of Experience This week, we wrap up our analysis of The Lady and the Unicorn with the sixth and final tapestry of...

Rebirth: The Grand Cycle

Holistic Mental Health, Recovery & Addiction

The Process of Decline and Renewal The idea of rebirth is ancient. Indeed, throughout time immemorial, myths and legends speak of man’s process of...

Gratitude: Generosity of Presence

Anxiety, Holistic Mental Health, Recovery & Addiction

A Time to Give Thanks It's the time of year when families all over the country are getting together once again. We look to...

The Center Can Hold: Regaining Our Balance

Depression, Mental Health, Recovery & Addiction

Turning in the Widening Gyre Balance and moderation get a lot of lip service in today's society. Unfortunately, we talk about these things more...

Our Communities: The Next Stage Of Recovery

Mental Health, Recovery & Addiction, Relationships, Family & Love

Widening Our Scope The journey of self-identity does not stop with our own self-knowledge and our own personal practices. In previous blogs, we have...

Habits: Building Blocks of Positive Change

Mental Health, Recovery & Addiction

Thoughts to Emotions to Attitudes to... Habits start off innocently enough. Maybe a drink to calm rattled nerves or forgetting in order to blur...

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: Recovery & Addiction