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Making room for Newness: Mindfulness and Recovery

Making room for Newness: Mindfulness and Recovery We are expected in recovery to engage in some degree of conversion. Conversion, meaning the shifts from one ...
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Joint Collaboration with Widener University

Providence Treatment is pleased to announce its joint collaboration with Widener University’s Biofeedback Clinic, chaired by Dr. Pamela Calvert-Hirt, to provide psychophysiological interventions for common ...
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When A Pilot Is Not Ready To Return Home

Often when a pilot leaves residential treatment, there remains unresolved issues, especially with their spouses and other family members. We know an alcoholic and addict ...
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Providence Treatment Achieves Accreditation From Joint Commission

announced today it has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® for Behavioral Health Care Accreditation by demonstrating continuous compliance with its performance standards. ...
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Are You a High-Functioning Alcoholic?

You can be an alcoholic and lead an outwardly successful life. In fact, many high-level professionals fall under the category of what experts call a ...
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Providence Treatment Supports WHYY

Providence Treatment supports WHYY and is an outpatient behavioral health and substance use program for professionals in safety sensitive occupations in need of recovery. Located ...
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Problem Drinking All-Too-Common Among Lawyers

If you’re a lawyer struggling with alcohol abuse, you’re far from alone. A new landmark study, published this month in the Journal of Addiction Medicine, ...
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Role of meditation and grey matter

In a recent article, in Psychiatry Research, a team of researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard documented the benefits of meditation on the grey ...
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Surrender

The word “surrender” is often associated with defeat, loss, relinquishing your power and other hard to accept concepts. In many contemporary spiritual programs, the process ...
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Addiction and Older Individuals

We know there are two developmental periods of the person’s life that is at greater risk for addiction. The older individual, age 55+, is at ...
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