A safe and sober learning environment

The St. Gregory Retreat Center is an eight-week residential program in a comfortable, safe and positive environment. Guests are able to experience successes utilizing our program while avoiding the cold, sterile environment found in hospital or institutional settings. The Retreat Center is designed to make you feel safe and comfortable as you focus on changing your life.

It's a dependency that has been brought on by your choices.

Since they are your choices, you control them. People learn through experience how to handle their lives and confront the problems they face in all situations. To understand that addiction is a dependency of choice is not to say that a drug or alcohol abuser properly weighed the pros and cons and made an objective decision to be an addict or alcoholic. The truth is, people learn behaviors that make them feel comfortable and choose to use those behaviors. Normally, people learn to cope with problems and social situations in a way that creates positive outcomes. However, drugs and alcohol can create an artificial sense of functionality that is perceived as positive and essential. When one begins to recognize this and incorporates substance use into one’s life as a coping tool, the cycle of dependency begins. The key to reversing this cycle is to provide the tools necessary for an individual to learn new life skills and behavior modification skills utilizing state-of–the art Cognitive Behavior Training (CBT).

Permanent recovery – forever

Inherently, people want to be happy and have purpose – to have joy in their life. This is why the shortcut to happiness through alcohol and drug abuse is so alluring, though it never is a pathway to sustained happiness. The Life Process Program© demonstrates through a unique process that there is so much more to life than quick fixes. The Life Process Program^© details three phases of change that, when completed in order, transform lives:

1. Assessment. Before an individual can begin to change, they must understand who they are, where they are in life, and who and where they want to be. The first step is to honestly evaluate your current position and assess the skills and values you bring. With this accomplished, you can begin to form a realistic plan. Our staff is trained to effectively guide our guests through this process. In addition, we recognize that the path you have been on has, in many cases, ravaged your body and/or health. During this first week, you will also focus on nutrition and exercise. Our unique neutraceutical program will start to rebuild your vitamin and nutrient levels, while reducing anxiety, and begin to detoxify your body.
2. Skills training and Cognitive Behavior Modification training. At the core of the program is the most basic of principles: by human nature we want to be happy and satisfied with life. When life is not producing that satisfaction, people try to artificially create what is missing. The Life Process Program© identifies and teaches and (most programs stop there) the LPP© trains the skills necessary to gain satisfaction with life naturally and normally, without artificial substances. Most of the guests here already have a basic understanding of what we are teaching but may not be fully utilizing these fundamentals of life. The core components of the Life Process Program© are Values, Motivation, Resources, Rewards, Support, Maturity, and Greater Goals in life. The application of these components of life is the key to real happiness. The skills to apply these components are what we teach.
3. Creating a comprehensive future plan built on assessed talents, positive goals, and finding joy in career, as well as in relationships with family and friends. This third phase of change provides the gateway to a new life. It is imperative that the guest have a well constructed plan before returning home. Being prepared for the future makes the transition from the program to the individual's life at home an energizing opportunity, a pleasure rather than a source of anxiety.

After eight weeks guests return home to their families, jobs or school as motivated, productive people. Dr. Peele’s published works provide support and training for the family as they communicate and prepare for their loved one to return home. No other program has that sort of complete focus, for both the family and the person dealing with the dependency.

Speak with one of our caring staff members who can answer your questions and help you decide on the next steps.

Call for help toll free: 888-778-5833.