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Late August tour: “The Meadows”

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Ramuda RanchAfter recently placing a client at The Meadows, it was good to tour the facilities which now includes Remuda Ranch for eating disorders (seen left). My longtime friend Patty Evans, along with psychiatrist Steve Brokway and Executive Director Sean Walsh were there to meet and greet, and give us the good news about The Meadows’ recent affiliation with TriCare as a primary treatment provider for military families.

The Meadows “model” has worked successfully with adults for over 35 years, and now is launching a program to work with young adults (18-27) in Wickenburg.

In taking on Remuda Ranch, the partnership with The Meadows will plant them in a very good position to provide a superb boutique, and highly effective and confidential level of health care. Remuda works with dual diagnoses clients to find the underlying eating disorders, along with the addiction. Full time nursing and medical staff allows them to see patients who would otherwise be pulled into hospitalization and not provided with the recovery they need to flourish.Saguaros

The Saguaros surrounding the properties provide the metaphorical backdrop of generations of individuals and families to come to heal. Arizona is a healing environment. I am happy to introduce you to The Meadows and Remuda Ranch.

Dr Mark Burdick

Another Overseas Success Story

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Affordable Recovery is real! IMG_2416 small Geronimo!

Hearts need mending

Hearts need mending

 

 

 

 

 

 

Often in a “cookie cutter” approach to behavioral health, the one who gets lost is unfortunately the individual patient or client. The client who was not truly “heard”, not appreciated for being “unique”, not buying into her or his present and future “narrative”. What is lacking in the relationship?

In bringing about a young person’s life from desperation to personal revitalization, the “listening” to a person’s dreams and aspirations is as important as the “hearing” of the trauma and tribulations. And there’s more. The “context” of where life happens is also as important in a person’s life as is the “content”, and if you take a moment and think about where you had danced your first dance, your first baseball game, your best vacation, where you met your loved one, etc., you’ll be clear.

This is the reason for South Africa. Cape Town provides a clarity in being “centered” unlike anywhere else in the world. It also allows for one to experience their own integration into recovery, emotional growth, and interconnectedness with society in a once-in-a-lifetime, yet familiar way. And then there is the natural beauty and yes, the animals. It’s perfect for the right individual who wants an extraordinary story to tell around their own recovery and re-integration into society and culture. Interested? Let us “show” you the way to SA….

How to Launch a Young Adult: Use a Parachute Approach!

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As parents, we want “the best” for our young daughter or son, don’t we? In fact, we’ve given them “the best” and that’s now part of the problem. Now, as the metaphoric phrase goes, “Houston, we’ve got a problem”, for what we have here is a failure to launch. And so goes our young person’s life — wandering aimlessly between home, college, work, and struggling with relationships and possible drug, internet, or sexual problems (or maybe all three!). What we need here is “a plan” that doesn’t depend on one person’s opinion but a thorough assessment and recommendation from a qualified practitioner, licensed in the area of psychological testing and placement of young adults. Dr Burdick has “put into motion” hundreds of such “plans” that have brought about successful “launches” to bring a young adult back to “buying in” to their life and making something successful of it, to make themselves (and those around the young adult) “proud”. At the end of the day, will the young person listen to their parents? No. But, Dr Burdick has a way to help align the orbits of clients and families to help bring the purpose back into the situation, and move families forward. Do you think this is possible without a “thorough assessment”? No, it’s not. Is it possible to “launch” young adults with such an assessment and a strategic plan? Yes, it is. We use a “parachute approach.” Don’t wait. Call to make an appointment. We can make “the launch” happen!