Most people confuse us with the more common clinical rehab model.
So, what are we then? What can we offer you, the sufferer?
According to the retreat model, this is an opportunity to take time out from the chaotic mayhem of modern-day life, to be still. We are so conditioned to be constantly doing that we forget who we are, and we lose touch with our being. This is amplified enormously during those pivotal times in life when something triggers deep personal change. These uncertain passages can feel terribly uncomfortable and the more we try to control, the more unmanageable our lives become. We would prefer to stay with our old ideas even though they don’t work anymore, believing that maybe this time things will turn out the way we want. Thus it goes on, round and round, and back to the same old place, only worse. Our job is to break that cycle.
In most cases substance abuse is a factor, whether it be weed or cocaine, booze or pills doesn’t really matter. The fact is you are using something/anything to make you feel better, to cope with life on life’s terms, and over time you come to depend on that. Any attachment to or dependency on a substance must be smashed first and foremost before recovery can happen at a deeper emotional level. And this is where you discover how powerless you really are. If you are a true addict or alcoholic, you cannot stop and stay stopped for any significant period. It is simply too painful. Our primary purpose at Rhapsody then is to show you how it works according to the Big Book of AA and the 12 steps. We are people who have recovered ourselves using this method, we have been graced with a second chance at life, more wonderful than anything we could have imagined, but we only get to keep it by giving it away.
