At The Life Healing Center, we provide a gentle and respectful treatment program that invites residents to disempower the tyranny of trauma by becoming fully alive in the present. In a titrated manner, residents are empowered to step into the present, claim their adult resources, and nurture the frightened, angry and hurt aspects of self. Our commitment is to acknowledge the inherent unity of self while addressing the internal experience of disunity. We believe that to acknowledge one without the other is to either perpetuate neglect by not affirming the felt reality, or to become a prisoner of the trauma by not acknowledging the cohesion and unity beneath the chaos. We approach the experience of dissociation with the following guidelines.
All humans are complex.
Each person is a whole composed of many parts. The present self is a composite of each developmental phase that we have traversed. Who we are at any given moment is a culmination, a mosaic, of all that we have been before. We help people affirm their internal truth and to recognize its many inner reflections. Different aspects of self may have a unique set of perceptions or internalized experiences, but beneath the diversity is a unifying truth, a common ground.