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This guided meditation includes a body scan and invites the receptivity and letting-go of whole body breathing. Once we have awakened the vitality and presence throughout the body, we have access to the formless dimension, the awareness that is our source. The meditation closes with “Walk Slowly”, from the poetry of Danna Faulds.

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Meditation: Opening to the Mystery

True listening arouses an open receptive presence that can be truly healing. This meditation awakens a listening presence; first bringing that receptive awareness to sensations and sounds, and then offering that presence to the tenderness and vulnerability of our heart.

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Meditation: Listening to Our Heart

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Evo Health and Wellness is an addiction treatment center in Venice, CA. But unlike the majority of rehabilitation or treatment programs, Evo’s starting point is curiosity – curiosity about the context of the individual’s suffering, and about the function their addictive behavior might be serving. Is it filling a void where something has gone missing? Is it soothing the pain of a wound? What are the traumas endured or internal beliefs harbored by someone that would cause them to self-medicate in a way that is harmful and destructive?

After addressing some of these questions, the subsequent step is to figure out what the patient wants their relationship to the substance to look like, giving them the space to imagine a new way of living and the tools to rewrite their story. Against the backdrop of the powerful, rigid and profit-driven “addiction industry,” Evo’s fluid, holistic and compassionate approach is an outlier, and its philosophy radical: to respect people where they are and where they would like to go. With that in mind, sobriety is not always the goal. While some who move through the program do wish to get sober and are supported in that, others might wish for alternative goals; if somebody enters the program wanting to reshape their relationship to alcohol in order to feel safe and comfortable enjoying a glass of wine at dinner, then Evo will help them achieve that.

ENDPAIN wanted to profile Evo to remind our community that there are programs, centers and resources out there that will meet you where you’re at and let you steer the ship of your own “recovery” and “healing” – whatever that means to you. There is no singular or correct way to overcome an addiction, and centers like Evo are helping loosen the rigidity of the addiction treatment industry so that more people in the world will feel comfortable and respected enough to seek help if they need it.

Beginning With Curiosity: Profiling Evo Health and Wellness

ENDPAIN is dedicating to producing, curating and sharing personal narratives on pain and trauma, healing tools, and expert voices in the field of alternative medicine/healing. We consider the idea that pain has a purpose and if we open ourselves up to pain as a teacher, we can learn to resist feelings of shame, fear and guilt that we are told must accompany experiences of pain. Please contact us with any questions, concerns, leads or story ideas. Enjoy the tools and stories, and ask yourself what sort of healing you need in your own life.

Beginning With Curiosity: Profiling Evo Health and Wellness

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