The Healing Place Featured on KET Series

"Probing Prescription Drug Abuse," the next program in the Kentucky Educational Television (KET) Health Three60 series, looks at the alarming rise of prescription drug addiction in Kentucky, particularly among young adults. Viewers will see how the problem is being addressed through law enforcement, education and treatment. Plus, people in recovery share their personal stories, explaining how they became addicted and what gives them hope for the future.

Tonight’s episode will feature clients from The Healing Place.

Funded in part by the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, Health Three60 "Probing Prescription Drug Abuse," airs Monday, Nov. 7 at 9/8 p.m. CT on KET. 

2001 Healing Place Summit

The 2011 THP Summit, hosted by The Healing Place of Richmond, VA, was informative, enlightening, and encouraging.  New approaches to strengthening and maximizing the Recovery Dynamics curriculum were discussed. 

The two-day Summit lasted covered a variety of topics during breakout sessions such as THP Core Elements, THP Universal Language, Fund Development, and Phase II (Transitional Living). THP Louisville President and CEO Jay Davidson led a discussion on “Lessons Learned / Starting a Healing Place”.  Latoya Whitlock shared her approach to engaging the family in the recovery process and working with women in recovery who have children. 

There are some very interesting projects in the works from the Community Planning Development department of Norfolk, VA, to the Somolian Community in Columbus, OH, and the Native American Pueblos in Santé Fe, NM.  The Healing Place is “A Model that Works”. 

One unique opportunity is a film project being produced by two retired social workers, Gail L. Kenyon and David Harrison from Raleigh, NC.  They are working with Tribal Judge Edie Quintana in Santé Fe, NM, documenting those Native Americans from that area who have found recovery at Healing Places in Richmond, Raleigh, and Louisville.  Their aim is to use that film documentary as a tool to assist Judge Quintana and other agencies in Santé Fe, NM, to begin the process of establishing a Healing Place in that part of the country.  That is truly exciting and encouraging to know that the word is out. 

Thanks for a job well done to Karen Stanley, Executive Director of The Healing Place of Richmond, VA, and her staff for hosting this year’s Summit.  The 2011 Summit will be hosted in Louisville, KY, so stay tuned for details.

University of Louisville Kent School Donates to Women's Campus



We would like to thank the University of Louisville Kent School for their donation of personal items for the women's campus. 

 

WDRB Features The Healing Place

Drug and alcohol recovery program seeks funding

Churchill Downs Makes Surprise Donation to The Healing Place

The Healing Place would like to thank Churchill Downs for their recent, surprise gift to further expand our mission.

My Biggest Challenge in Life is Me.

On this day—and everyday, for that matter—I need to remind myself that my biggest challenge in life is me.

Specifically, my thinking, my attitudes, my fears, my self-doubt, my self-limiting beleifs, my behaviors, my stupid  (meaning fear-based) decisions, my reactions, my inconsistancy, my unwillingness at times to commit, my inner-dialogue, my excuse-making, my need to please, my propensity to over-analyze, my ego, my low self-esteem… and recognizing all that, that apart from that, I am still have moments, little islands in time, to be pretty awesome.

That I can manage pretty much anything—that success or failure is not so much about the situation, the environment, circumstances, challenge or relationship I find myself in—it was about me in it. I was the problem—and also the solution. That if I can learn to get out of my own way, I could do, be and create almost anything if only I can recognize self-sabotage… so today—and everyday—I need to try to do these simple, but not easy things:

To stop waiting for the right time

To stop relying on or waiting for motivation

To embrace being uncomfortable

To be prepared to fail

To find the lesson

To ask better questions

To stop looking for approval, permission, protection and praise

To learn my own truth

To not sulk—but seek

To invest my emotional energy wisely

To stop waiting for people to care

To control what I can—and let go of what I can’t

To remember I am, like you, a multi-dimensional creature… and that just like you I am both complex and simple.

But mostly simple—and therefore, not easy.

Contributing Writer: Richard Real 

The Healing Place Garden Grows Plants and Lives

The Healing Place Women and Children's Campus has an exciting partnership with Whole Foods and their community garden program.
Click here to watch a feature clip about the program.
Click here to read the article in the latest issue of Edible Louisville.