When You are Getting Started in Addiction Recovery, where does one begin?
Very often when one is thinking about getting started in addiction recovery, for themselves or a loved one, they are barraged with a multitude of options fighting for their attention online. One might wonder the basics of even just how to start in recovery? Or they may be clueless regarding the entering rehab process, or the first steps addiction recovery. Well we are here for you or your loved one just when you are beginning sobriety.
Starting Treatment for Addiction, let it begin with us at Pavillon.
The Pavillon campus sits on 160 acres of natural and luxurious land in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. We are located in Western North Carolina, about 45 minutes from Asheville. The campus contains a natural waterfall, a lake, walking trails around the lake, and trails through the woods. Those woods themselves contain a treeless meadow at the top of one of the trails. It’s a naturally beautiful place, with deer, foxes, geese, turkeys, and songbirds that visit or call this land their home. They live in luxury on this land.
In this beautiful environment Pavillon was founded in 1996. Since that time we have added a labyrinth and a few other outdoor features to help promote wellness. These updates seamlessly integrate with the land. Pavillon is the perfect place to be at one’s recovery journey start.
Beautiful Outdoor Campus and Stunning Indoor Amenities
Our mindfulness and attention to wellbeing is evident in our outdoor amenities, it is also present indoors. We offer a variety of thoughtful options including our Serenity Room and our Wellness Room. The Serenity Room is ideal for quiet, sitting, contemplation, reading, spiritual activities, etc. The Wellness Room houses some gymnasium equipment, weight machines, and so forth. Both used for optimal total wellbeing: bio-psycho-social-spiritual health.
Beautiful Facilities and a Strong Focus on our Wellness & Spirituality
It would probably come as no surprise to know that Pavillon includes some specific attention to spirituality. As a program, its various services, and its staff – all “one” as we think of it, fill this bill. At Pavillon each patient defines spirituality for themselves, as we would hope they would. In that effort we have some staff specifically dedicated to educating, and providing coaching for various wellness-related activities. These activities include various kinds of recreation, yoga, journaling, meditative practices that can fit for each person individually, and other personal-wellness activities that patients undertake. Sometimes, some of the best self-care techniques are the simplest and most natural, like taking a walk out on the land – and letting that experience remind us of things like beauty, simplicity, goodness, gratitude, harmony, and balance.
Intentionally Respectful
“Dignity and respect” are guiding words for Pavillon; we make our effort to live and demonstrate those intentionally, and strive toward that aim each day. We hope to model an authentic hopefulness and wellbeing collectively as a program, as a staff, and individually as well. Many of us personally know that this requires us to find and lean on courage, willingness, humility, perseverance, and awareness – both as individuals and also together. Thankfully, we find the inspiration or guide for living we need modeled to us by others.
Wellness Focus through Food and Nutrition
Pavillon has a long-standing reputation for great food. This is in no small measure due to our outstanding Executive Chef, Sous Chef, and the entire kitchen staff. The kitchen staff, the food they prepare, are high on the list of our alumni. For over a decade now, alumni note this often at Pavillon as making a difference. And things that demonstrate Pavillon’s heart and spirituality. The excellence of the kitchen staff shown in the very practical matters of daily living (e.g. remembering a patient’s name as they make their way through the food line, the quality of the food itself, etc.) are lived examples of those kinds of spiritual principles, and principled service.
Interdisciplinary Team for Individualized Clinical and Spiritual Care
Our team has a dedication to whole-person wellbeing at Pavillon. We use the model of an interdisciplinary clinical team. To be even more thorough, ours includes a Spiritual Director as part of the team. This not only makes our effort more concrete but also makes wellbeing simple, plain and real. Our Spiritual Director has been sought out for many years by various conferences and treatment programs to provide lectures, formal continuing education presentations, and facilitate workshops for the training of trainers – or at times to work directly with staff and other professionals on these topics.
His approach is a bottom-up approach. Meaning supporting or facilitating each person on their personal path as it already is. This approach is optimal rather than top-down. Top-down is teaching the patients formal academic information, or expert how-to instructional methods that must be conformed to. His approach fits our total program’s method, and is congruent with this place and with the land as a natural resource. Understanding a patient as a person can help make a big difference in the effectiveness of any clinical team, and our Spiritual Director also helps patients in their personal spiritual formation, development, and practical application, as needed.
Our array of excellent clinicians across the disciplines inside the team (counseling, primary care, addiction medicine, clinical psychology, nursing, spiritual care, and wellness), do a kind of work that is more than just individually excellent. The work they do is as an integrated and holistic system – an interdisciplinary team – promoting lasting recovery while standing within the beautiful and luxurious container of wellbeing that is this place: Pavillon.
Resources
When you research “getting started in addiction recovery,” look at this article that the Recovery Research Institute wrote: Social Identity: Transitioning from Addiction to Recovery .
Please find more on our clinical programming at our residential addiction treatment program here.