Seeking Anxiety Treatment
Everyone encounters moments of anxiety. Your nerves are in overdrive before a big presentation. You’re doubtful that the cutie you have your eye on will say “yes” to a date. Or the logistics of coordinating a cross-country move are scrambling your brain. This type of anxiety is part of life. Anxiety is a natural stress […]
Video: How to Conduct a Medicine Bags Practice
Spirit Recovery Medicine Bags: How to Facilitate Who or what are your support systems in your life? Those support connections, whatever or whomever they may be – faith; relatives; sponsor; spouse; friend; mentor; program; community – are relationships that hold us and raise us up. A Medicine Bag practice uses a tangible object to help […]
You Can Have Healthy Food Relationships in Your Life
Having healthy food relationships is a part of having a healthy life overall. While treatment for drug and alcohol addiction is vital to get clean and sober, there’s more to being healthy than just breaking an addiction. At Integrative Life Center, we can help you work through issues with food, as well as any other […]
Video: A Conversation About Race and Trauma
An Honest Conversation About Race and Trauma As our world awakens from its slumber to the truth of injustice, personal and systemic racism, mental and behavioral health practitioners have the responsibility to not only address our own unconscious biases and racism that may be occurring in our practices, but hold space in our work to […]
Body-Centered Therapy in Nashville
Imagine loving yourself and feeling comfortable again in your body. Isn’t it time? Often, individuals don’t consider how they relate to their bodies as a source of their mental health issues or even substance abuse problems. How we feel in our own skin and react with our body not only expresses what our thoughts and […]
Video: Ketamine in Mental Health Treatment – Your Questions Answered
Understanding Ketamine in Treatment with Daniel Barton, MD Curious about Ketamine in the treatment of depression and mental health disorders? Want the opportunity to ask questions in real time of a seasoned MD and Psychiatrist? In this live webinar Dr. Daniel Barton, founder and Psychiatric Director of the Nashville Ketamine Center, discusses the role of […]
Spirituality in Recovery: The Importance of Embracing Your Own Personal Experience
Spirituality in recovery is a highly personal experience. One person’s higher power may be far different from another’s. Not everyone believes in God. Not everyone believes that there’s life after death. But, to recover from substance use disorder, it’s unnecessary to conform to a common omnipotent force. Your higher power is what you make of […]
Healing and Recovery: It’s a Matter of the Heart
Emmanuel Dagher once said, “Healing is less about “saving” or “fixing” and more about “allowing” ourselves to ease into the remembering that there’s a wholeness that has been there all along.” After years of working in the treatment field, we’ve come to believe we, as human beings benefit from a program embracing Dagher’s thought. This means […]
Depression Treatment
COVID-19 has the world turned inside out. People are facing a loss of income from jobs that have to be closed and medical bills that they don’t know if they can pay. Worry about paying for necessities such as rent, food, and childcare has increased as many people have at least temporarily lost their jobs […]
Behavioral Health Services vs Addiction Treatment
Many individuals suffering from substance use disorders also have behavioral health issues. Behavioral health services can be tricky to find when we are trying to manage our health. When it comes to mental health, ultimately we want a trained specialist for our specific needs. Often times a primary care physician has a limited amount of education […]
