The Importance Of Self-Care

Self Care
Kerry Lassen, LCSW | Clinical Director, Progressive Institute What is your personal definition of self-care? Self-care involves looking at the overall person – emotional, mental and physical self and how to take care of each of those three aspects. Maintaining a continuous routine, even during uncertain times, is also a...

What is a Recovery Coach?

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What is your personal definition of a recovery coach? My personal definition of Recovery Coaching is, a trained professional who uses one’s own personal experience and education to work with individuals to assist, guide and help them remove personal and environmental obstacles to recovery. Progressive Recovery Coach serves as a personal...

Progressive Institute Virtual Meetings

Progressive Institute Offers Free Mind
In addition to offering a suite of Telehealth Services for all patients, Progressive Institute is offering multiple free online support groups to all members of our community.  Maintaining personal connections and managing through new challenges in the age of social distancing has proven to be difficult for many.  We believe...

Recovery Coaching at Progressive Institute

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Brian Nash, RCP, Director of Clinical Outreach & Recovery Coaching at Progressive Institute   How often and how does a Progressive Recovery Coach meet with clients? Our certified coaches are here for our clients 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. When a person joins Progressive Recovery Coaching program,...

Anxiety and Addiction

Anxiety and Addiction
Kerry Lassen, LCSW | Clinical Director, The Progressive Institute   What is your personal definition of anxiety? A feeling of worry or nervousness that is either driven by something specific or from the unknown. Reactions can include mild uneasiness to extreme panic which are expressed both physically and mentally.   What therapies...

Progressive Institute Offers Free Mind, Body, Spirit Online Support Group

Progressive Institute Offers Free Mind
These are unique times with increasing global concern and anxiety due to COVID-19 self-isolation and the risks of on the job potential exposure. We are all concerned about our physical health, mental wellness and our jobs. Progressive Institute is here to help us all build skills to help navigate these...

Progressive Institute Offers Zoom Beginners Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting

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With face-to-face Alcoholics Anonymous meetings largely postponed due to COVID-19, Progressive Institute will be providing virtual access to a Beginners A.A. meeting each week to allow community members to maintain the human connection and support that is an essential aspect of maintaining sustained sobriety and wellness.  We encourage those working through...

Progressive Institute Offers Zoom Young People’s Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting

Progressive Institute Offers Zoom Young People’s Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting
With face-to-face Alcoholics Anonymous meetings largely postponed due to COVID-19, Progressive Institute will be providing virtual access to a Young People’s A.A. meeting each week to allow community members to maintain the human connection and support that is an essential aspect of maintaining sustained sobriety and wellness.  We encourage those working...

Recovery Coaching as an Adjunct to Individual and Group Therapy

Recovery Coaching as an Adjunct
What are the differences between how a Recovery Coach and a Therapist support a client?   Therapists and Recovery Coaches are coming from different perspectives, yet they have a shared objective. A Progressive Recovery Coach does not diagnose a client, rather they are a resource for clients to help them...

What does it look like to be a young person in recovery?

What does it look like to be a young person in recovery
What have been the greatest challenges being a young person in long-term recovery? For me, getting sober at a young age made me think I did not use “enough” to be qualified as an addict. These thoughts kept me from getting the help I needed earlier. Once I realized that...