Drugs Aren’t the Problem…

Addiction is often nothing more than a symptom of poor mental fitness. Most of what we’ve been taught about addiction is wrong, and our current treatment model is broken and out-dated. We’re a highly medicated society that has been led to believe that drugs will fix our problems and fill our emptiness- it won’t.

With our approach to recovery, we will not work just to avoid all the things that could trigger someone, but rather, to increase one’s protective factors: finding work, improving relationships, rebuilding trust, improving physical health, and finding greater meaning and purpose in one’s life. It’s not drugs that are the problem! The goal of Mental Fitness counseling thus is to help one achieve a full life. This approach goes above and beyond traditional therapy where the focus is solely on removing the drug, while often clients still struggle with a feeling of emptiness, disconnection, and despair.

Whether it’s gambling, drinking, smoking, sex addiction, shopping, overeating or opiates, you name it- it’s all the same. By improving one’s Mental Fitness and overall outlook on life, we can heal addiction as its core!

* Interventions, individual counseling, and family support services are also an available for family members and friends of those who are actively struggling

Mastering your Thinking

The first step in overcoming depression is being better able to identify negative thinking. Next, it’s having the skill set to replace it with more constructive, positive thinking. Just a like a good sauna, steam room or nutritional cleanse can jump start your physical health efforts, that’s where our mental fitness conditioning will begin as well.

The initial goal here is to detoxify one’s mind. Your mind is like a great garden. If you don’t tend to it to remove the weeds, the weeds will overtake your garden and nothing else will grow. If we don’t clean out the junk thoughts of one’s mind first, the positive thoughts won’t have the space to take root.

We’re not born depressed. We practice becoming depressed and it can be reversed!

Come in for a session today and let the mental detox begin!

Mastering Your Emotions
Our emotions are a blessing. They’re our GPS system. They teach us that which we need to learn in life to achieve our full potential. Yet how many of us practice labeling our emotions this way- as our GPS and a blessing?

We don’t.

We say, “I hate feeling anxious. I wish I wasn’t feeling anxious. Why am I always anxious? What can I do to numb out all this anxiety?” And all this does is perpetuate more anxious feelings that keep us stuck.

Through counseling at Mental Fitness, clients will learn the seven steps to master their emotions so their emotions aren’t mastering them. Clients will learn how to reframe and relabel their emotions to guide them to finding their true values and potential.