Pivotal Moments

Pivotal Moments is a video interview series feat. staff & collaborators sharing stories from behind the scenes of Recovery.

Insightful interviews with our staff and beloved associates, inspirational recovery stories, interviews, collabs and so much more!

Like this quick mindfulness tip: Small moments lead to bigger gains.

Learn simple ways you can develop everyday mindful awareness--even while washing your hands!

Mary Ann Rege also discusses Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and how it can create a different relationship with stress and what’s causing it.

This has been a hard time for everyone--children and teens especially. Dr. Sicher will talk about when these “new normal” struggles should be more concerning for parents.

And learn some great tools and tricks to help parents pivot their children out of a struggle.

Alicia was working as an actor for 15 years when she caught a virus that led to facial paralysis. This effectively & suddenly stopped her from being able to go back to her old life & career.

She had to quickly pivot. After taking some courses she discovered a passion and talent for identifying people's personalities, how and why we get stuck, and helping them overcome their own mental and emotional paralysis.

She's now dedicated her career to helping individuals, families, couples, and partners deal with traumas, recalibrate their default responses, and live in the present.

Listen is as we discuss EMDR, the reactive "reptile" part of the brain, and reprocessing old traumas as past and not present.

Early in her career, Ashlee achieved success as an Emmy award winning makeup artist, working in TV and film for 23 years, where she functioned as both an artist and an educator. Her glamorous lifestyle eventually came to an end because of her struggles with addiction.

Ashlee attempted numerous times to get sober, repeatedly relapsing until 2011 when her family intervened, and she received the long-term treatment experience she needed. This process revealed to her the necessity to change the trajectory of her life. Through personal experience, she saw an opportunity to help people and make a difference by entering the field of addiction treatment.

The Chicken or the Egg, which came first? The mental health issue or the substance abuse issue?

For some people, it works to go through addiction-only treatment, but a lot of people, maybe half, require dual diagnosis treatment.