Four Principles for Creating Meaning While in Addiction Recovery
For those of you who were at Sunshine Coast Health Center (SCHC) in the last five years, you know that meaning and purpose is a major theme in our treatment. Within SCHC, we use Paul Wong’s Meaning...
View ArticleWhy Unstructured Time is a Necessary Part of Addiction Treatment
There are many resources available for people with addictions and support resources for family members dealing with a loved one’s addiction. If you’ve been a reader of these types of self-help books,...
View ArticleWe Need Relationships in Order to Live Meaningfully
Thinkers have been telling us for centuries that we need other people to live a contented and fulfilling life. More recently, psychologists have been learning from scientific studies that this is,...
View ArticleThemes from the Personal Meaning Conference
Our clinical staff from Sunshine Coast Health Center attended the 8th International Meaning Conference this July. The conference is a gathering of psychology researchers and therapists who are...
View ArticleThe Human Quest for Meaning and Recovery from Addiction
Much of our clinical program is based on the theory and research of Dr. Paul Wong. Although Dr. Wong began as an experimental psychologist (training rats to be able to withstand more and more stress,...
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