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Teen Addiction Treatment: A Parent’s Complete Guide

If Your Teen is Struggling, You’re Not Alone Discovering your teenager is using drugs or alcohol feels like the ground just fell out from under you. Maybe you’ve spent months or even years trying everything you can think of. Grounding didn’t work. Taking away their phone didn’t work. Talking, pleading, threatening consequences. Nothing has worked, […]

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Opiate Addiction Treatment: Evidence-Based Programs That Work

The Truth No One Tells You About Getting Off Opiates If you or someone you love is trapped in opiate addiction, you’ve probably heard conflicting advice. Some people say you just need willpower and a detox. Others swear by medications like Suboxone or Methadone. Your family might be telling you that taking medication is just

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Men’s Addiction Treatment – Breaking Through Barriers to Recovery

When Everything You’ve Built Starts Crumbling The text message came at 2 AM: “I can’t do this anymore.” Mark had been VP of sales at a tech company for eight years. Great salary, respect from colleagues, two kids in private school. On paper, his life looked perfect. In reality, he’d been secretly drinking a fifth

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How to Help Someone With Addiction: What Actually Works

How to Help Someone With Addiction: What Actually Works

When Someone You Love Is Struggling You’ve noticed the signs. Maybe it started small—missed family dinners, strange mood swings, money going missing. Or maybe it hit you all at once: finding pills that aren’t theirs, discovering they’ve been lying for months, or getting a call from the hospital after an overdose. Either way, you’re scared.

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Benzodiazepine Addiction Treatment: Safe Withdrawal and Brain Recovery

The Chemical Cage: When Anxiety Medicine Becomes the Problem Jessica had been taking Xanax for three years. Her doctor prescribed it for panic attacks. It worked perfectly at first. Within 20 minutes of taking a pill, the crushing chest pressure would fade. She could breathe again. She could function. Then one day, she ran out

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Psychedelic Retreats: A Journey Back to Yourself 🌿

Let’s be honest: life can get loud. Between work, relationships, constant notifications, and the general madness of modern life, it’s easy to feel disconnected—from your purpose, from nature, even from your own self. That’s where psychedelic retreats come in. These aren’t just vacations. They’re guided journeys—carefully held spaces designed to help you reset, release, and

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what is a shaman?

Who is a Shaman?

This is a complex answer. We are aware this term is culturally loaded. In some indigenous traditions, those called cannot become one, they must be at least third generation or deeper. If you feel the call, only your great-grandchild could become a shaman. Should we place 100% weight on tradition, practical experience, and disregard modern

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Mycelia Monastery’s Shamanic Ethics & Principles

Mycelia Monastery’s Shamanic Ethics & Principles   March 2, 2025: Subject to comment by a few carefully selected MM internal team   Mycelia Monastery: Code of Ethics for Modern Shamans Our Role as Shamans At Mycelia Monastery, we embrace the title shaman as a bridge between ancient wisdom and modern science. We are not healers—we

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