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The Journey Home Mission: It is the mission of The Journey Home to provide a safe and drug free environment, as well as to provide a highly trained professional staff to help and guide these worthwhile women on the path to a lifetime of recovery, returning to the community as productive members of society. It is also our mission to empower these young women so they can recover and break the generation to generation cycle of addiction, incest, child abuse, and emotional and physical violence and abuse.
We are a dual diagnosis facility with neuro-psychological testing, psychiatric and medical services. The Journey Home provides specialized groups and individual counseling to help empower the resident to stabilize and function in today’s society. We believe that simultaneous treatment is necessary for the resident to recover from addiction with co-occurring disorders.
The Journey Home opened February 1, 1997 – providing a new concept and a new energy for the supportive continuation of care for chemically dependent / dual diagnosed females. We specialize in the treatment and care of females, addressing all problems and diagnosis pertaining to this population. The Journey Home is located in Denham Springs, Louisiana; 5 miles east of Baton Rouge. The home is on a five acre rural setting with manicured grounds. Only a small sign next to the front door identifies this beautiful home as a treatment facility.
We offer a whole-person approach to the treatment of addictions. We believe that the resident must recover physically, emotionally, mentally, and spirituality. We incorporate the core mindfulness skills, to enable the resident to develop the capacity to nourish and live in the present moment.
The Journey Home is divided into five phases. Upon arriving the resident will spend one week on Orientation before moving into the phases. All phases are designed to achieve independence, break the generation to generation cycle of addiction, and empower these women so they no longer fall to the victimization of addictions, as well as promoting appropriate social behavior.
All of these phases are basic guidelines and represent the basic expectations. Individual needs and specific problems are addressed on an individual basis. All of the phases build upon the previous phases. Work continues as the resident progresses through the program. All phases will address the needs of the dual diagnosed resident.
The Journey Home believes that Alcoholism is a primary disease that results in the loss of the ability to manage one’s own life. Alcoholism and related chemical dependencies are primary, chronic, and fatal diseases which render victims helpless. As the disease progresses there is further deterioration, both emotional and physical. Defensive lifestyles emerge to meet the negative behavior caused from this disease. Chemically dependent women are often victimized and many come from abusive backgrounds.
Alcoholism is understood as a complex problem involving not only compulsive use, but also an interlocking system of feelings, behavior, and interactions with loved ones which result in a self-defeating lifestyle. Treatment involves not only aiding the resident to become free of chemical use, but also examining the emotional, behavioral, and interpersonal consequences of that use. The basic emphasis of the residential program is on helping residents find and maintain a chemically free lifestyle.
The Journey Home also believes that this is a family disease and that the whole family is affected by addiction. The family is an integral part of the resident’s recovery, therefore The Journey Home believes that it should be treated as such so that the family system may heal as a unit.
The Journey Home believes that women should be empowered and that this empowerment will have positive results in their recovery.This program is based upon a foundation which respects and offers support to the women who are struggling with addiction. Because addiction is a disease this program believes it can be treated successfully with a caring and supportive staff.
We believe that excessive use of any drug reduces the overall quality of human life and endangers physical health, mental health, and life expectancy. We believe that it is important and necessary to intervene with care against the physical, psychological, social, vocational, and spiritual crises exhibited by the chemically dependent resident. We believe the resident should receive quality services and a safe environment in order to recover from all dependencies.
The Journey Home provides long term residential treatment for females. The Journey Home also provides an open ended model of treatment to stabilize the non-appropriate behaviors associated with the lifestyle of chemical use, and is designed to fit the needs of each individual resident.
The Journey Home provides intensive therapeutic care in all areas of therapy. The program includes but is not limited to family involvement, individual therapy, group therapy, nutritional counseling, and co-occurring disorders.
Arrowhead Lodge Recovery Goal: We not only desire to help our residents return sober to their families and careers. We help our patients discover how to thrive in life without the use of mood-altering drugs or alcohol; and to find fulfillment, peace and lasting joy.
The age of our average client is 45-65+. See the Arrowhead Lodge Recovery articles: Why Gender and Age Specific Addiction Treatment Matters and Addiction Treatment – Rehab for Older Men and Boomers.
A mature man may not open up in group therapy when he’s sitting in a group of single young adults who have not experienced life on their own. Especially when early childhood trauma is involved.
A man needs to feel safe before he will talk about deeply embedded emotions and the trauma that created them. All Arrowhead Lodge Recovery clients have individual therapy with licensed therapists, as well as participate in group therapy with peers.
Arrowhead Lodge Recovery is a safe environment for men to find their true selves with support from M.D.’s board certified in addiction medicine and pain medicine, experienced licensed therapists; and their peers in group therapy.
Arrowhead Lodge Recovery is accredited by The Joint Commission. The Arrowhead Lodge Recovery credentialed staff consists of a licensed MD with Board Certification in Pain Medicine and Addiction Medicine; and an M.D. Addiction Psychiatrist and Neurologist. In addition, Arrowhead Lodge Recovery therapists are LPC (licensed professional counselors) as well as holding Arizona Substance Abuse Certifications; LISAC, CSAT, LISAC.
Arrowhead Lodge Recovery therapists have experience and certifications in the treatment of trauma, pain medicine, depression, anxiety, mood disorders, alcoholism, drug addiction and sex and love addiction.
Arrowhead Lodge Recovery works with EAP Programs and accepts most insurance plans.
Arrowhead Lodge Recovery Rehab for Men is proud to have and exceed all five of the elements of higher-quality care, as recommended by the NIAAA Alcohol Treatment Navigator.
At our mountain retreat facility near Prescott, Arizona – men find and strengthen inner peace, and experience tranquility.
We equip our clients with the depth and stability to handle all the curves and disappointments – as well as joys – in their regular daily lives once they leave Arrowhead Lodge Recovery.
Start your journey to alcohol and/or addiction recovery by contacting Arrowhead Lodge Recovery.
Your confidentiality is assured when you contact us.
Speak personally and privately with Executive Director Dr. Kenneth Chance at (888) 654-2800.
| I was a selfish person, emotionally numb, and self-centered – in the sense that I believe to my core that everything should be handed to me. I was the youngest of the three brothers and grew up protected by two older brothers and a successful dad that gave me everything a kid could ask for. Yet here I stood in an orange jumpsuit in front of a judge with my loving parents sitting in a courtroom with disbelief in their eyes. I could see their disgust and love. They officially were powerless over how to save their son. I was once again arrested for drinking and driving.
As the arrests piled up, the shame was insurmountable. This was no longer a “phase”. This was an issue that bled through my whole family, community, and self-care. Believing that I was only harming myself was a lie that I believed down to my core. Lying to myself was nothing new to me. I told lies to everyone for the game of it. I was honing my craft of being a dishonest person. No matter the consequence, even when telling the truth was easier, I clung to the fact that I could I get out of any situation by creating a story in my head and becoming a classic story teller. I lived in a fantasy world growing up. The stories that I made up in my head I viewed as truth. For every dream, there needs to be action to achieve it. Quitting became natural to me.
I was eighteen years old at college, on my own. The hooting and hollering was noticeable that first night. I walked down the hall to the common area where guys were gathered around a table with beer cans and liquor bottles taking up most of the space on the table. Drinking was not something I ever did up to this point, but I knew I couldn’t let anyone know that. I was welcomed by the guys as they made room at the table for me. Little did I know that sitting down at that table would change the course of my life forever.
I quickly realized that alcohol and drugs made me feel “normal”. I failed out of college, went back to college. Failed out of college again, and went back to college again. I floundered around life with a bottle as my compass. I got arrested several times, was bailed out of consequences, and went right back to drugs and alcohol. I spent several years in my twenties on “house arrest” as I moved into my parent’s basement and worked for my dad. Not having a driver’s license, being on house arrest, and/or watching the consequences pile up was no match for my addiction. I could not imagine life without drugs and alcohol.
By 2008, I was having thoughts that I may be better off leaving this world then to keep floundering in life. I was told that I was going to long term treatment. I did not fight it. My mom had packed me a care package, in it was a journal book.
I was shattered as a person and completely lost as a person. I opened that journal book on my first night in long term treatment and wrote words that I will never forget.
“Here I sit in long term treatment. I am not sure if I don’t want to be here in treatment, or if I do not want to be here on Earth. I am going to stay here till I can figure it out”. That was October 19, 2008, and I have not had a drink or a drug since.
What I came to realize, is that drugs and alcohol were just a hurtful solution for me. It was not just me that I was hurting, it was everyone that I had encountered. Vulnerability, authenticity, and connection are three things that I have built my long-term recovery on. I never learned how to find a connection to anyone, or anything growing up.
I grew up in a loving, supportive home but I never could feel connected. That connection was never made due to never feeling connected to myself. Once I was able to get a connection to myself, to feel comfortable in my own skin, I was able to feel connected to other people.
To get that connection I had to become vulnerable. Now all I knew about vulnerability was that it was a sign of weakness, or so I thought. It never came natural, and it never came quickly. It started with a heart to heart conversation with a dog in long term treatment led to being open and honest with my counselor. Once I became somewhat vulnerable, people could finally see the authentic me.
My life today is built on providing hope and help to the hopeless and helpless like I was once before. As each day passes, I get more and more connected to myself and to others. Recovery has always came first in my life since I started my journey utilizing the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. I still wake up with thoughts of “I am not worthy” and “I am not good enough” but recovery has given me the tools to deal with those thoughts. I walk through life today comfortable with the person that I have become and that is due to getting vulnerable with those around me. Being an alcoholic and addict is no longer shameful to me, and I refuse to hide my scars that have made me the person that I am today. I continue to pray for the courage to be vulnerable, which leads to me becoming more and more authentic. I no longer play one of the many characters that addiction forced me to be which allows me to get connected to myself and to others. I now know the meaning of “Be who you are”. Long term recovery gave me that.
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