Renewal Retreats
Heal & Transform Your Marriage!
Have the passion and excitement faded from your marriage? Do you sometimes feel you are misunderstood, underappreciated, taken for granted, neglected, or mistreated? Have you lost yourself and wish you were free?
If this is you, and you and your spouse are open to change, we will help you. You will gain understanding, forgiveness, acceptance, enthusiasm, commitment, and a renewed purpose and passion for your lives.
It won’t happen by one of you wishing for it. You both need to make a commitment to being open to change, and registering for this intensive weekend couple workshop is your declaration to the uni-verse that you are willing!
Your process of healing and transformation begins the moment you say ‘Yes’!
Sober but Stuck
Have you been clean and sober for quite a while yet find yourself:
• Unhappy or discontented?
• Having difficulties in your marriage or other relationships?
• Feeling stuck?
• Trapped in your work?
• Feeling lonely, misunderstood?
• Full of grief or sorrow?
• Angry or resentful for past hurts?
• Worried about what tomorrow may bring?
Treat yourself to an individualized renewal retreat! Personal recovery coaching!
One, two or three weeks.
Contact Us Today and Book Your Retreat Now
Individualized Renewal Retreats
The staff and program of A Home Away are second to none. And we are passionate about what we do, and will go to any length to help you or your loved one. This means you will receive the best possible program to identify and resolve your issues, and to learn experientially how to achieve your goals and live a full, healthy life with balance, meaning and purpose.
The AHA retreat process of recovery is unique: a comprehensive, healthy interpersonal dynamic built upon trust, respect and dignity, in a compassionate, intimate home setting. This revolutionary approach is proven to deliver results. We are not like treatment centers or other healthcare institutions that rely upon the traditional medical model, providing care and administering medications. You will experience a personal journey of insight and self discovery that yields the changes you are looking for in your life. The program is individualized, private, comprehensive, holistic, and, most importantly, highly effective. By the completion of your program you will have a never-before optimism and excitement about your new, dynamic life, career, and family.
You will not “fall through the cracks” here! You will enjoy an intimate resort setting: a maximum of 8 guests at a time. You will not be lost in the ‘back row’ here! This means we will get to know you as an individual, intimately, and will work hard, and dig deep, to get at the root of your concerns. We will stay with you and embrace you with compassion. We will treat you just as you would treat a guest in your home…with dignity, respect, and trust.
Following the program, many enter into private 1:1 or couple counselling to continue to work on these important relationships. Marriages improve, couples reunite, children return, grandchildren come and play, careers excel.
A Home Away is as much a home as it is a beautiful resort amongst orchards. We’ll enjoy meals together with you, family style around our dining room table, go on recreational outings, take Cocoa for walks, learn and share in sessions, and share tears and laughter. And much much more. You will have the very best, comprehensive retreat that works and delivers results! This means you will find the freedom you are looking for, and you will know happiness, peace and joy.
Retreat Program Durations are individualized according to your needs and goals.
Addiction Recovery Retreats
Ask about our fall and winter 2011/12 special!
If you have struggled with alcohol, other drugs or addictions, or feeling stuck in a stressful, unhappy pattern of life, perhaps having difficulty maintaining sobriety, and want help, we’re not just another alcohol or drug rehab treatment center, we are a special place where you can retreat and will find hope. You have likely made many valiant attempts to stop. You know how to stop drinking or using…it’s staying stopped and dealing with life on life’s terms that has been difficult. You will experience miraculous changes in your life starting early into your program with us. You will begin to feel on top of the world. You will have the best sleeps of your life. Your energy, passion, and strength will return. You will feel lighter, stronger, happier, and more optimistic. You will learn new living and communication skills, and experience renewed relationships in your family. By the completion of your program, we guarantee that you will continue to be free of addiction, clean and sober, and have a never-before optimism and excitement about your new, dynamic life, career, and family. Following the program, many enter into private 1:1 or couple counselling to continue to work on these important relationships. Marriages improve, couples reunite, children return, grandchildren come and play, careers excel.
The primary addiction recovery retreat varies from 28 to 91 days, with the usual recommended being 42 days.
Recovery: Programs are 28 to 91 days. 42 days is the usual core program. Also available in weekly increments up to 91 days. Robust individualized programs for you to maintain sobriety, and achieve serenity and a healthy life balance. You will heal in mind, body and spirit. You will experience transformative change. Miracles really do happen! The longer the duration in our primary addiction retreat, the greater the likelihood of you effecting life long change.
Refresher: One to three weeks. This is your opportunity for renewal, reflection and deeper healing. After the honeymoon phase of excitement about your new life of recovery passes, many find that life presents new challenges, particularly in years 2 to 5. We invite you to return for a refresher during that time.
Breathing Easy
Given the prevalence of tobacco use in our society, everyone has been impacted by nicotine addiction in some way. Perhaps you never used directly, but have been subjected to second hand smoke. Others have used and stopped, and may be at risk of restarting, while others are in active addiction. A Home Away’s Breathing Easy component of the program addresses all of these impacts. You will experience our unique blend of understanding the 12 Step program of Nicotine Anonymous, and the tremendous emotional support of A Home Away to facilitate tobacco cessation as part of your program of recovery.
Old ways of thinking in the addiction field were to first address the ‘main’ addictions, and worry about tobacco later. However, nicotine addiction kills more people than all other addictive substances combined. Continuing to use the powerful drug of tobacco will keep you in the cycle of physical craving. Our own experience during the evolution of A Home Away’s smoking policy has clearly shown that not surrendering tobacco along with the other substances will greatly reduce your opportunity to heal, and to stay clean and sober. Ample evidence from other studies concludes the same. Addiction is addiction, and abstinence must be absolute for optimal outcomes. You deserve the best, and we offer nothing less.
A Home Away is an addiction-free resort environment, including the use of nicotine, just like any other drug. If you are currently a user of tobacco products, we will discuss this with you before you arrive, and help you arrange to easily and quickly make the transition to A Home Away. Once here, we will support you in your process of smoking cessation and in your new life of recovery from all drugs.
You will be amazed at the ease with which this process happens, and you will quickly begin to experience the joys of being fully clean and sober. You will have sweet smelling hair, clothes and breath, no longer huddled alone outside in the cold, and you will be breathing easy the fresh Okanagan air on your morning walks with your fellow guests and Cocoa.
Personal Counselling
Not everyone wants or needs the intensity of a residential based program. Private counselling or having a personal coach or online sessions helps many people who want to change something in their life but just feel stuck.
Issues often relate to one or more of: self esteem, peace of mind, relationships, family, career, achievement, behaviours, addictions, marriage, codependency, sex, smoking, finances, anxiety, fears, depression, self image, grief and loss, anger and forgiveness, just to name a few. Once into sobriety, many find emotions and changes in their lives that are concerning. A recovery coach or counselling will help.
Perhaps you have an underlying unease or discontentment and can’t put your finger on what it is that’s troubling you. Or perhaps, like many, you don’t necessarily have ‘an issue’, but would like personal coaching and/or mentoring to be more effective at your already amazing life! That’s okay, because, our focus is not on the problem, but rather on the solution.
Personal or online sessions can be arranged, individually or as a couple, with one or two counsellors.
