STAR For Addictions and Recovery
FOR FIRST-TIME VISITORS
Why Take STAR
Your STAR Experience
The STAR Process
What Graduates Say About STAR
The Value of a Personal Growth Retreat
STAR Staff
FOR THERAPISTS
Message from the Director
What Therapists Say About STAR
Inside the STAR Process
Why Therapists Choose STAR
STAR Staff
SPECIAL TOPICS
Addictions and Recovery
Attachment Disorder and Relationship Problems
Attacking Anxiety and Depression
Grief Recovery
Childhood Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress
Personal Growth
Achieving and maintaining abstinence from compulsive and addictive behaviors can be a difficult challenge—it does not always come quickly or easily. Feelings of demoralization, being overwhelmed, and powerlessness are common for many addicts, especially in the beginning of recovery or when having trouble staying sober. Others, who have been able to maintain their abstinence, sometimes reach a place where they feel stuck in their Step work or in dealing with the consequences of addiction in their lives.
Please note: we do not accept people who are actively in their addictive pattern into the STAR program.
STAR provides an innovative and intensive 10-day residential experience
to complement and deepen 12-Step and other ongoing treatment programs.
It provides a safe,
nurturing environment in which to explore the roots of addiction. Dysfunctional
family dynamics, abandonment, neglect, or childhood abuse are often aspects
of the addict’s personal history. For some, addiction may
have been in part a coping mechanism to deal with the uncomfortable
feelings these early experiences
created. Others may have experienced traumatic or degrading moments during
full-blown chapters of addiction. Sometimes the consequences of
addiction resulted in life-altering
or -threatening situations. Identifying, exploring, and releasing these memories
and feelings often helps to heal the underlying source which fuels the addiction;
this in turn helps to mitigate addictive impulses and urges.
STAR can help its participants make peace with their pasts and face the
challenges of their current lives. STAR can help to more fully awaken
and realize our gifts, talents, and potentials, which got marginalized
while in the full swing of addiction. STAR provides an opportunity
to deepen and strengthen authentic spirituality and relationship
to Higher Power, in order to bring greater depth and breadth to your
recovery journey. Freedom from addictive behavior and destructive
patterns is possible.
For reading recommendations go to:
Addictions and Recovery Reading
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FOR FIRST-TIME VISITORS | FOR THERAPISTS
BOARD OF DIRECTORS | ADVISORY BOARD
WHAT'S NEW | FAQ | SCHEDULE | CONTACT
US | RELATED SITES
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