Parvati Magazine February 2014 - Sobriety1 | Page 29

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porting guests to access
weekly counselling in their
community for 12 weeks.
Follow this link for more information on the continuing care program available through our Center.
For the past four years,
the Chopra Addiction
and Wellness Center has
been helping people
with addictive behaviours
“re-wire” their reward circuitry and create a new
memory free from harmful cravings. Referred to
as neuroplasticity, this
re-wiring of the nervous
system enables the brain
to reorganize itself so human beings can create
new neural pathways
through new experiences. Under the guidance
of the professional staff
at the Center, emotional
pain can be identified
and experienced with
safety and support not
previously possible. This
“re-wiring” can produce
new empowering, liberating experiences and new
choices that nourish the
mind, body and spirit, can
be revealed, thus bring-

ing about healing and
transformation.
Unique to other addiction treatment centres,
Chopra Addiction and
Wellness Center offers the
first truly holistic addiction recovery method in
North America. The healing team at the Center combines the latest
breakthroughs in modern
Western medicine with
the healing arts of the
East. The goal of the holistic health care experts
at CAWC is to restore balance and wholeness in
the lives of the people who
come for help. Deepak
Chopra, M.D. and David
Simon, M.D., co-founders
of the Chopra Center for
Wellbeing in Carlsbad,
California, developed a
recovery method, Freedom from Addiction, unlike any other. The four
and six week residential
programs offer individuals intensive, personalized treatment that address the deeper issues at
the root of addiction and
help individuals identify
and re