Healing for Partners of Sex Addicts

Healing Damaged Love is a five-day workshop designed to empower individuals from addictive family systems to release themselves from the bonds of co-dependency. Participants examine how childhood wounds interfere with intimacy, and selecting and maintaining healthy functional relationships. This intensive therapy experience is designed to reveal how painful life experiences hamper our growth, our ability to be honest and nurturing to ourselves, and be authentic in our relationships with others. This workshop is ideal for spouses or adult children of addicts.

Visit www.pinegrovetreatment.com or call 1-888-574-HOPE (4673) for more information.

Pine Grove Behavioral Health and Addiction Services in Hattiesburg, Mississippi is known as one of the nation’s most comprehensive treatment campuses. For over twenty five years Pine Grove has offered a continuum of services ranging from outpatient to inpatient and residential treatment for adults, children and adolescents suffering from psychiatric and addictive diseases. Specialized services include the treatment of addictions, eating disorders, and professionals struggling with interpersonal difficulties. The Pine Grove Mission is to be a leader in healing and changing lives by providing the highest quality behavioral health services.

Caffeine: The Trojan Horse of Recovery

Ralph E. Carson, PhD, RD

The purported health benefits of caffeinated beverages are a mixed bag especially to the individuals who are recovering from or vulnerable to addictions. Though the scientific literature sights benefits to caffeine and even coffee drinking, this may not be the case for recovering addicts. Caffeine has somewhat of a ‘Trojan Horse’ phenomenon by appearing first to be a gift that benefits one’s health, but in the long run this perceived benefit serves only to disguise the fact that caffeine can actually reap havoc during the recovery process.

Its complicated chemical and metabolic nature make it one of the easiest substances to get hooked on as there are numerous neurochemical pathways with which it interacts. Since the process of recovery is to bring the brains chemistry into balance, the disruptive contribution of caffeine only making this more challenging if not impossible.

Then there is the condition that to heal we need to get appropriate sleep and sleep is minimize in those whom consume caffeine on a regular basis. With over 60% of the population reporting episodes of insomnia, those struggling with addictions report a much higher incidence. Sleep is the time the brain heals. Therefore, not only is it important that one gets enough sleep, but the quality of that sleep is a key to long-term recovery.

Ralph Carson, R.D. B.S., B.H.S., Ph.D., is a nationally recognized clinical nutritionist and exercise physiologist. Dr. Carson is a frequently requested speaker on a variety of nutritional topics for medical groups, pharmaceutical companies, universities, athletic training camps and corporations. He has a successful clinical practice as well as being a faculty member of the University of Alabama at Huntsville for over 20 years. Dr. Carson is also a nutritional advisor to numerous university athletic departments including the University of Tennessee National Basketball Champion Lady Volunteers. Dr. Carson received his B.S. from Duke University, his B.H.S. in pathology (Cum Laude) from Duke University Medical School, and his Ph.D. in nutrition (Phi Kappa Phi) from Auburn University. Dr. Carson currently manages Oprah Winfrey’s web page on eating disorders and is the consultant for Pine Grove’s eating disorder program, The Women’s Center.

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Gentle Path: Sexual Addiction Treatment

Gentle Path is a six week intensive program designed to treat sexual addiction, sexual anorexia, relationship addiction and sexual trauma. It is offered in a community setting and provides extended care through Pine Grove Behavioral Health Services, one of the South's leading treatment facilities.

The Gentle Path Program offers gender specific treatment to aid men and women in regaining their freedom from the disease of sexual addiction. Most patients are simultaneously treated for mood disturbance, anxiety or other addictions, such as chemical dependency. The Gentle Path Program has a special focus on working through past trauma and family problems. The program is designed to help men and women regain freedom from compulsive behaviors and develop a sense of healthy sexuality.

It's our mission to offer quality cost-effective care while at the same time offering a comprehensive level of treatment and services.

We provide a safe and secure environment where patients can work together under the supervision of professional, caring and effective staff members. Patients live in a community setting where meals are provided for them.

The Gentle Path Program is based on the groundbreaking work of Dr. Patrick Carnes who developed the curriculum for the Gentle Path Program. The curriculum is based on Dr. Carnes' thirty task model which has been empirically validated to be an effective form of treatment of sexually compulsive behavior. Patients receive individualized attention as well as being incorporated into a group process. This cutting-edge program was designed to provide patients with the most progressive and well researched treatment available.

Pine Grove Behavioral Health and Addiction Services in Hattiesburg, Mississippi is known as one of the nation’s most comprehensive treatment campuses. For over twenty five years Pine Grove has offered a continuum of services ranging from outpatient to inpatient and residential treatment for adults, children and adolescents suffering from psychiatric and addictive diseases. Specialized services include the treatment of addictions, eating disorders, and professionals struggling with interpersonal difficulties. The Pine Grove Mission is to be a leader in healing and changing lives by providing the highest quality behavioral health services.

Visit http://www.pinegrovetreatment.com/ or call 1-888-574-HOPE (4673) for more information.