Thrive Center for Wellness

10/25/2025

Addiction is a family disorder. Often the person suffering from Addiction is scapegoated carrying the wounds and dysfunction of the entire family. It is the exception and not the norm for someone to heal from Addiction while the family stays sick and vice-versa. We get well together.

10/07/2025

The adaptation was typically used to: provide safety, create avoidance of pain, make the unbearable bearable, cope, seek acceptance, avoid suffering.
Maladaptive is only maladaptive when someone is judging it as anything other than an adaptation to trauma before it stopped working. Mostly by those who have never taken a step in "maladptive" shoes. We can do so much better.

09/29/2025

1. Rock bottom=death. Addiction is fatal left untreated. Do not let your loved ones hit rock bottom.
2. Drugs are drugs in this instance. The ideology behind hard vs. soft is designed to separate people, propagating judgment and fueling stigma. It also allows people to rationalize and justify their own "less harmful" use. Finally, it allows corporations to distract from the harm "legal" drugs like alcohol, to***co, and Pharma cause. The 2 historically legal drugs (alcohol and to***co) have killed more than ALL illicit drugs combined.
3. If drugs were truly addictive, anyone who ever tried them would be addicted (including alcohol).
4. Recovery is the long process of re-connecting with our authentic selves and healing the wounds that chemicals helped to soothe.
5. Abstinence is simply not using. Often, the first steps toward recovery, but not always. Abstinence is simply not enough to heal addiction.
6. Recovery is often a lifelong process to keep the chronic disorder in remission. For many, treatment is the beginning of the healing journey.
7. Addiction is rooted in trauma. Much of that trauma occurs between the ages of 0-3. Genetics as an explanation glosses over the suffering of trauma and the effects on brain development. Epigenetics would be a slightly better explanation.
8. Relapse is a part of the disorder, not a failure of recovery. Some people never return to use just as cancer stays in remission for some and reoccurring for others.
9. Addiction is a complex neurobiological disorder that no one chooses.
10. Functioning alcoholics just haven't lost their employment YET.
11. Addiction can and does weaken us, but recovery and redemption are superpowers.
12. Detox can break physical dependency. It does nothing for cravings, urges, or heal emotional woundedness.

09/23/2025

See you there!

09/22/2025

6 years flies by. Thanks for allowing us to be part of your journey. This work is beyond fulfilling.

09/17/2025

Super excited for this event!!

09/10/2025

Su***de is the 11th leading cause of death.
Roughly 10 percent of adolescents have attempted.
Su***de among NCAA college athletes has doubled in the past 20 years.

07/03/2025

This can be one of the most triggering weekends for men and women who have served in our military. If you plan to set off fireworks in your neighborhood and you know your neighbor is a vet, give them a heads up ahead of time. This single act can save someone from experiencing a flashback to their deployment, hyperarousal, anger, rage, negative self perception, shame, racing heart, detachment, panic attack, nausea, inability to sleep and night terrors. This is not even an exhaustive list of PTSD physical and emotional responses. We owe it to them!
FOR Vets-grab your noise canceling headphones, double up on self care, connection, and anything else you to help yourself heal. Check in on your fellow soldiers and be gentle with yourself!


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06/25/2025

Be you! Be safe! You have allies!






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06/19/2025

06/12/2025

We are now in network with Aetna!

05/23/2025

Mental Health Awareness means being aware that there is a stigma around mental health issues, awareness that mental health services still need to be expanded, awareness that we continue to underserve the very populations expressing the biggest need for access, awareness that healing and compassion across communities is an ongoing endeavor.

We want to thank all of the mental health professionals and community providers that make healing and accessibility possible. Your work doesn’t make headlines, you don’t get your picture on the cover of magazines, but your care, the art of healing individuals and communities on a daily basis, is appreciated and for that we extend many deep bows of gratitude. 

You make a difference every day!

Don’t forget that self-care isn’t just something we encourage our patients and clients to become skilled at. Let’s take some of our own medicine this weekend and for the rest of the month!

Again, thank you for your calming, compassionate, empathic, and clinical competence in the process of individual and community healing.