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12 Step Recovery: Residents attend 12 step meetings regularly, work with a sponsor, complete the 12 steps and fulfill a service commitment. Experience shows that active 12 step recovery participation and understanding helps sustain recovery post formal treatment. Residents develop a strong recovery foundation they later draw upon post treatment. Through 12 step meetings, residents […]

•Addiction did not develop overnight or in 28 days.  Young adults’ become addicted to alcohol and/or drugs over a period of years. •During their active addiction, young adults failed to learn life skills and coping skills that are needed to be successful.  Developing and learning often missing basic life and coping skills required to lead […]

Rodney Zimmers, BA – CEO Rodney was with Gatehouse Academy for over 5 years, until their recent closing. He began his treatment career as a Residential Technician, then as an Admissions Coordinator, a Residential Director, a Family Communications Manager, and finally, the Program Director.  His Bachelor’s degree is in Health Care Management. Rodney brings a […]

From a former resident, Blake: “From November 2008 to November 2009 I was a resident under Rodney Zimmers’ care. I arrived to treatment fragile, broken, and with a family torn apart by my disease of addiction. With Rodney’s guidance and constant compassion I was able to begin building a new life for myself; a life […]

A Mother’s Perspective:  “By the time, our addicted loved one enters treatment, a lot of damage has occurred.  The re-building process is not quick and easy.  There is a lot of trust that needs to be earned back.  The process begins with getting completely honest.  After honest communication occurs, the healing can begin to happen.  […]

It was 5:15 am Wednesday morning and time to hit the trails.  My sponsor, Rodney, came over the night before and spent the night.  Out hiking bags were packed and ready to go.  Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, nuts, water and the step work I completed earlier in the week.  On the ride there, we […]

Blueprints for Recovery long term drug rehab. Provides scientific information about the disease of drug addiction, including the many harmful consequences of drug abuse and the basic approaches that have been developed to prevent and treat the disease. NIH Pub Number:10-5605 Published:April 2007 Revised:August 2010 Author:National Institute on Drug Abuse Science of Addiction is in […]

I can remember picking up a guitar for the first when I was about 5 years old. Almost my whole family played either the guitar or the piano.  When I was five my hands weren’t big enough to play but I would sit there and try to play, picking an odd note here and there.  […]

When I first got sober I heard the saying,” My mind was a dangerous place to be alone.”  The saying hit home.  My mind was going a million miles a minute in every which direction.  They all seemed to move in the direction that I would not be able to stay sober and that long […]

A large majority of the young adults who enter long term drug treatment suffer from anxiety. The residents often used drugs as means of reducing and managing their anxiety. Their anxiety made it difficult for them to fit in with their peers, in school, and at work. These feelings helped to mold and establish fears […]

Step One is the foundation of 12 step recovery.  The first step clearly outlines the wreckage created by the individual’s addiction.  The first step first has two main points.  The first main point is the unmanageability created by the individual’s addiction.  The young adult in drug rehab will begin to examine carefully how their addiction […]

Trauma: Trauma (whether from a one-time dramatic event or from a repetitive type, stemming from childhood) causes our central nervous system (CNS) to be on high alert.  Whether the event/events took place today or years ago, the brain has changed to accommodate that traumatic experience.  It’s as if a robber has come into a house […]

NEUROFEEDBACK— long term treatment’s answer to relapse 2006 Study boasts a 77% recovery rate for addicts getting Neurofeedback in Treatment It’s come to my attention, recently, that Neurofeedback has reached a “tipping point” if you will (with the general public and specifically in addiction treatment circles). This is good news to me because I have […]

My teachers have been many, and my insights are due to their tireless research and specializations. Among them are Dr. Daniel Siegel, Dr. Daniel Stern, Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, Dr. Allan Schore, Dr. Stephen Porges, Mary Main, Dr. John Bowlby, Mary Ainsworth, Sir Richard Bowlby, and the Boston Change Group. I thank all of you […]