A Closer Look at 90 Professionals In 90 Days

In June of 2009, The Bridge to Re-covery embarked on a new adventure by committing ourselves to hosting 90 visiting professionals over the course of 90 days. The spirit of this adventure is to network with a wide variety of people who are passionate about providing comprehensive care to individuals and families affected by addiction and codependency. The typical professional visit entails flying into Nashville, TN. From there, our guests are shuttled to The Bridge to Recovery where they will settle in at the Visitor’s Residence for the night. The drive from Nashville, TN to Bowling Green, KY is about 1 hour and 15 minutes. The next day starts with a nice breakfast and an informative presentation about the history and the current program offered at The Bridge. Following the presentation, we give our guests a driving tour of our 100 acre campus and facilities. Following this, our guests meet and interact with the clinical team. Finally, our guests share lunch with the Department Heads and several staff members. The visit concludes around 1:30PM. The entire adventure lasts about 16 hours and all expenses are paid by The Bridge. Would you come be part of our 90 Professionals in 90 Days program? We would be delighted to share with you what The Bridge to Recovery has to offer and how we can partner together in the work of healing broken lives. Schedule your visit today by calling either Tammy Eurick 270-535-0077 or John Stenzel at 877-866-8661.

90 Professionals in 90 Days Update

Our first 90 Professionals in 90 Days participants came from Promises Treat-ment Centers in California. Lee Fitzgerald is the Director of Clinical Outreach and Patricia Meyers is the Director of Clinical Admissions. It was a pleasure visiting with them and hearing about their program. It was also an honor to share information with them regarding how The Bridge to Recovery can work with Promises to serve the needs of clients and their families. Other professionals have also made time to visit with us over the past few months. From time to time, we will highlight our visiting professionals and share a little about the time we shared together with them. Every visit has been a delightful meeting of hearts and minds. To schedule your visit to The Bridge to Recovery, please call Tammy Eurick 270-535-0077 or John Stenzel at 1-877-866-8661.
The Bridge to Recovery offers 2 week, 30 day, 60 day and 90 day treatment for Co-dependence and process addictions starting at $5,900.00. For more information on Admissions to our program please call Tammy Eurick , Admissions and Marketing Director 270-535-0077 or Dee Dee Yeagle, Admissions Coordinator 877-866-8661.
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“I am honored and extremely excited about the possibilities to work with the Team at The Bridge to Recovery. Paul and Carol have operated an amazing organization over the years and we aim to make them proud from here on out. I look forward to working with other treatment programs and professionals in the industry in order to meet the needs of mutual clients.”

Paul and Carol have been devoted full time servants of The Bridge to Recovery. They have paved the way for this transition to occur. Following this transition, both will remain involved at The Bridge in an advisory role sharing their wealth of experience with the staff and board of directors.

Please feel free to contact John directly via email—john@thebridgetorecovery.com or his mobile phone—818-618-0404.

Our Program Is Stronger Than Ever
We can help. For information about admissions to The Bridge to recovery please contact Tammy Eurick, Admissions/Marketing Director or Scott Whittle, Development Director at 877-866-8661. Check out our website www.thebridgetorecovery.com

They will remain frustrated until we consciously begin the process of growing up. This blog entry is a simple reminder of some of the common experiences that can make people vulnerable to codependence and lead them straight toward the experience of being that immature child trapped in an adult body. Over the next couple of weeks, I will expand on these. For now, I will simply list them all and then write in more detail about the first.

Here are some of the prevailing experiences that if left unexplored, they can lead toward a lifetime of codependence:
1. Growing up in a family system that was / is governed by an addict.
2. Growing up in a family system that was / is governed by an untreated codependent.
3. Growing up in a family system where there is / has been abuse in any or all of its different forms.
4. Growing up in a family system where there is / has been some form of emotional or physical abandonment.
5. Growing up in a family system that was / is enmeshed.

These are all key ingredients that can contribute to a person’s codependence. Now, let’s spend a little more time taking an indepth look at #1.

1.) If you grew up in a family system that resembled a dictatorship run by its sickest member, then you may be a prime candidate for codependence. Growing up with an addict of any kind is stressful and it leads one to believe he / she is not worthy of time, love and attention. When the addict in a family system is the overbearing focus, it can be an emotionally crippling experience for other family members in that system.

Growing up in the home of an addict can lead you toward the experience of being an immature child in an adult body because your value as a person is brought into question on a consistent basis. When that is the case, you are forced to grow up too soon in order to get your needs met. It is important to remember that this phenomenon is not just reserved for people growing up in homes where the addict is addicted to ingested substances (i.e. — drugs and alcohol). The addiction could be to any person, place, process or thing that happens to require inordinate amounts of attention and preoccupation on the part of the one who is using it.

If the addiction prevents the addict from engaging in intimate and nurturing relationships and fulfilling his / her routine responsibilities, then this can pose a unique set of problems for the rest of the addict’s family members. These problems will ultimately manifest in a predictable form that many experts call codependence.

If you suspect that you grew up in a family of origin where an addict was “running the show”, there is a good chance that you are encountering life situations that you find overwhelming, highly stressful and quite unmanageable. This is due to the fact that you were forced to grow up too soon. Thus, you are having the experience of being an immature child trapped in an adult body. The Bridge to Recovery can help. For more information about our program, please visit us at www.thebridgetorecovery.com.

Watch for our next blog entry as we discuss how growing up in a home with an untreated codependent can actually perpetuate your own codependence even after you have left your childhood family system behind.