Recovery Coaching Helps Sustain Recovery, But What Is It?

California is leading the way in using Recovery coaches to help people gain and maintain recovery.  The research is clear, having a professional recovery coach improves recovery outcomes by leaps and bounds!  This is why at Cardinal Point in Downtown Menasha WI we have a Professional Recovery Coach (Steve).  Steve is not only in long…

Benefits of Exercise In Addiction Recovery

The benefits of exercise in addiction recovery are many!  However, it is really hard to not only change your life but also to add exercise to your day.  At Cardinal Point in Downtown Menasha, WI we understand the importance of fitness in recovery, particularly fitness in early recovery.  Your brain has been starved of neurotransmitters. …

Nutritional Psychiatry: Your Brain On Food

The foods you eat affect how you feel!  This idea is something that we at Cardinal Point in Downtown Menasha, WI have known since we opened our doors.  We constantly seek solid information to support why we offer nutrition services and brain health along with other holistic services for mental health and addiction treatment.  We…

Dr. Teralyn Offers New Brain Health Course!

The Addictions Academy Announces New Courses in Brain Health and Harm Reduction to Provide Addiction Professionals Valuable and Needed Training   Founder Dr. Cali Estes announced The Addictions Academy has launched a two new Nationally Certified Coaching Courses to help train Addiction Professionals Advanced Brain Health and Harm Reduction techniques and strategies. Dr. Cali Estes,…

Addictions Recovery “Power Couple” Celebrates 26 Years Sobriety and The 2018 National Recovery Month

September is National Recovery Month and Dr. Teralyn and Steve Sell continue to combine their expertise with highly effective strategies to provide help to those seeking long-term addictions recovery and assistance with substance abuse. Dr. Teralyn Sell and her husband Steve Sell of Cardinal Point, a professional mental health and addictions recovery collective in Menasha, Wisconsin, have recently announced…

Why Do You Drink Alcohol For Stress Relief?

One of the statements I hear often is “I like to go home at the end of the day to unwind with a drink” or “It’s been a stressful day and I need a drink to relax.” You get the idea and I’m sure all of us have said something of the sort at some…

What Is An Addiction Intervention

What is an addiction intervention? What is a professional addiction intervention? You’re feeling lost and desperate on what to do about your loved one and their drinking or drugging.  You have been dealing with this for years and you just don’t know where to turn or what to do. It consumes you in every way…

Why Can’t They Just Quit?

If you are someone who has asked this question please don’t give up. I understand what you’re going through and what the other person is going through. It can be so very hard to understand. Why don’t they just stop? Can’t they see what they are doing to our family, me, and themselves! They’re killing…

Don’t Be 88,001

What comes to mind when you see the number 88,000? The number of people packed into a football stadium for the big game? The number of dollars you wished you earned in year? Price of the sports car you dream about? Maybe the miles on your cars odometer. Certainly 88,000 is a large number. What…