In our culture, men are often programmed to call other men out from a place of hostility and angst. However, it’s possible to call someone …
Being a Support System for Someone Else
It isn’t always easy for men to show up for each other. Being a nurturer, support system, or caring presence is often relegated to the …
Warning Signs of Treatment Burnout
Treatment is a wonderful and necessary part of recovery. However, we can get burned out on talking about our feelings, learning, and staying engaged in …
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Definition: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy suggests that the main obstacle to a happy, healthy, normal, or prosperous life for people with compulsive …
Experiential Therapy
Experiential Therapy (ET) helps people who struggle to discuss their feelings or try to escape them altogether. It uses role-playing, writing, arts and crafts, music, …
Opioid Epidemic & Treatment Approaches
By Ryan Bain Tree House Staff The opioid epidemic is an intensely complex sociocultural issue often largely misunderstood. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
Can I Choose To Control My Drinking?
When the ideas of the ability to choose and the ability to control drinking come into the same conversation, that conversation gets fairly heated fairly …
Breaking the Ice and Making Friends
Nobody says we have to be friends with the people we go to treatment with. Technically, we don’t have to like anyone. We don’t have …
The Changes of Early Recovery for Men
Recovery is more than learning how to live sober in abstinence from drugs and alcohol. We are capable of tremendous change and transformation as men. …
Men’s Loyalty And Recovery
Men’s loyalty to one another, and men’s disloyalty to one another, have marked some of the most important moments in the history of the world. …