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Women's Programs

Integrative Life Center believes in treatment designed for women's needs. In the past women's needs have not been fully recognized or included in treatment programming. We're changing that paradigm. It's now known that chemical dependency and addiction affect women differently than their counterparts. For example, women cross the line from heavy use to addiction quicker than men. Once they cross the line the disease progresses faster and does more damage than it does in men. Further complicating the issue, women experience more barriers to seeking treatment-they have less insurance, children to take care of, more trauma and abuse experiences and experience more shame about needing treatment. They are more apt to put off their own healing to take care of the family. However, once women get into recovery they tend to heal faster and relapse less often then men.

Programming at ILC takes these significant differences into account and offers treatment specifically addressing women's unique experiences and challenges. Along with substance abuse/dependency, disordered eating and stress we'll address cultural and family roles, relationship dependency, trauma and abuse, self esteem, personal power, self-care and more through the lens of women's experience.

Following is a sample of topics addressed in the Women's Program:

• Staying Well - Relapse Prevention
• Healing Trauma and Abuse
• Healthy Relationships
• Family Roles
• Stress Management
• Intimacy
• Roles in the workplace
• Society's expectations
• Setting Boundaries - Your Bill of Rights
• Self Esteem
• Spirituality
• Empowerment

Here is a partial list of therapeutic experiences offered as a regular part of our women's programming: Women's Healing Circle - 2 hours of counselor led group dynamics Individual therapy Experiential and Adventure Therapies Art therapy Equine therapy Amino acid treatment Women's sweat lodge

Women's programming presents an opportunity to heal from the past, become present in your life and create your future. As women we are hard wired for relationship. However, we are often taught to put other's needs ahead of our own - often at our own expense. Recovery requires getting real about our own needs and putting ourselves in the equation. It takes a village as the saying goes, and you'll get the support of your counselor and the circle of women as you make your health and happiness as important as the other's in your life.