We often have everything inside of us to heal, we just need the right tools and guide to discover it. At Milestones, our entire team works to empower our clients to own their healing while equipping them with the tools they need for sustained emotional and mental health.
Today, Christopher and Mickenzie are joined by Milestones Primary Therapist Mo Tedder to explore the final tenant of this series—Empowered Healing. Together, they discuss how our clinical team comes alongside guests to guide them in self-discovery and healing and empower them to regain a sense of agency in their journey.
For the McHugh family, life felt like too much for too long. They have faced more than their fair share of trauma and pain and eventually reached a point where they weren't sure they could take anymore. That's when Leith attended Milestones, followed shortly by her son Holden.
Today, we're joined by Leith, Aaron, Holden, and Averi McHugh, who offer a glimpse into their family's journey to find individual and collective healing. In a vulnerable and beautiful conversation, they share the lessons they learned while prioritizing healing for every family member and how they've formed lives and connections beyond what they ever thought possible.
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Every human is unique. Your treatment experience should be, too!
Today, Psychiatrist and Milestones VP of Medical Services Dr. Neil Bomar joins the show to share the importance of our holistic approach to healing. He explores how the entire team partners to create a customized, innovative plan for each and every client. We strive to create a complete picture of a client's unique circumstances to treat the whole person.
At Milestones, we firmly believe in the healing power of community. We often say that we're wounded in community, and therefore, our greatest level of healing happens in community.
Despite it being one of the most impactful aspects of their stay, most individuals are initially apprehensive about the community element of the Milestones experience. When you've experienced trauma, your sense of safety and trust within a community is often lost.
Today, Mickenzie and Christopher sit down with Milestones Alum Jennifer to explore the importance, difficulty, and power of healing in community. Jennifer shares how her expectations of community shifted, how she navigated the good, bad, and beautiful elements, and how her Milestones community has continued to impact her healing journey.
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According to Eric Erickson, the first thing a trauma survivor loses is trust. And in a counter-intuitive way, the only way to begin to heal from trauma is to trust.
At Milestones, we know that the most effective way to rebuild trust and heal from trauma is within the context of a safe and connected community of people who understand. Today, Mickenzie and Christopher are joined by Milestones Family and Adventure Therapist Bobby Chapman.
Reflecting on over 40 years in the treatment industry, Bobby shares the differentiators that Milestones brings to the space and offers a beautiful exploration of the magic of the community forged amongst the guests and staff. He also shares how Milestones facilitates work for clients and their families through our Family Weekend programming to help individuals address larger systemic struggles and introduce healing within a larger community.
What happens when you're a trauma therapist who needs trauma therapy?
When Meghan Riordan Jarvis lost her mom, as a trauma therapist, she recognized the signs of what was happening to her. She knew all the right things to do to help her traverse the trauma response she was experiencing. But despite knowing what to do conceptually, she quickly realized she couldn't find her way through alone. After having referred her own clients to Milestones for years, Meghan found her way to Milestones.
Today on the Treating Trauma Podcast, Meghan joins Mickenzie and Chase, sharing her unique perspective as a trauma therapist and alum and how the Milestones experience transformed her understanding of herself, her grief, and her work
As we continue to explore the tenants of the Milestones experience, today we're joined by Clinical Supervisor Amanda Morrow to discuss our innovative trauma expertise.
Together, Mickenzie, Christopher, and Amanda share the "magic" behind the Milestones clinical approach and the innovative recovery that works. As Amanda shares, the differentiating factor amongst the team of highly skilled clinicians is the heart, compassion, and care they bring into everything they do.
She shares about different therapeutic modalities, how we approach trauma and addiction, and encouragement for people considering this work.
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Mentioned in this Episode:
2:02 - Amanda's role as Milestones' Clinical Supervisor
5:35 - How Milestones approaches trauma
8:00 - The difference between attachments and addictions
12:27 - The importance of creating a predictable and supportive environment
15:57 - The indescribable "magic" of Milestones
19:33 - Milestones therapeutic modalities
21:43 - How trauma impacts our bodies
24:50 - How we unlearn our trauma
27:54 - The most surprising things about the Milestones experience
33:45 - Regulating the effect of trauma on our nervous systems
38:54 - Amanda's encouragement for those considering Milestones
One of the most challenging barriers to overcome when contemplating attending Milestones is the priorities and responsibilities people leave at home. When you have people depending on you, it can feel selfish to walk away from your life for 30-90 days to focus on yourself and your healing.
Today on the Treating Trauma Podcast, we welcome Milestone's alum Shawnna, who candidly shares about the barriers she overcame as a mom of seven children to attend both Onsite and Milestones. Shawnna shares how the healing hospitality she experienced enveloped her and gave her the permission to do the most selfless thing she's ever done—prioritizing her healing in a season when she needed it most.
Mentioned in this Episode
2:56 - Shawnna's Onsite and Milestones journey
4:21 - How growing up in a restrictive religious environment impacted Shawnna's view of therapy and herself
7:39 - Shawnna's first days at Milestones
9:59 - The importance of safety in trauma healing
11:10 - How somatic therapy impacted Shawnna's trauma healing
13:30 - Navigating faith through trauma therapy
15:29 - How Shawnna overcame her resistance to Milestone's healing hospitality and learned to ask for what she needed
21:33 - The ongoing lessons from Milestones that Shawnna takes into her work as an educator
24:04 - How Shawnna's community supported her journey
26:53 - Shawnna's biggest Milestones takeaways
28:59 - Shawnna's encouragement for someone considering Milestones
To kick off this new season of the Treating Trauma Podcast, which is all about the tenet of the Milestones experience, we're joined by Miles Adcox, the Onsite and Milestones Owner and Chairman.
Miles shares the heart behind one of our most important values, "Healing Hospitality." As Milestones celebrates 10 years, Miles also takes us back to the beginning days and how the idea of healing people back to wholeness is the foundation of everything we do at Milestones. From our clinical team to our culinary, hospitality, and client support, our team is committed to treating each and every guest with safety and care.
Learn more about Milestones Healing Hospitality.
Mentioned in this episode:
2:58 - Where trauma and substance abuse treatment intersect
16:50 - The origins of Milestones' Healing Hospitality and Miles' journey in residential treatment
24:10 - Creating a supportive community for mental health treatment
30:00 - Repairing through hospitality
38:37 - Valuing guests and corrective experiences
44:00 - Mental health, recovery, and support
Let's face it: Family relations can be messy. With so much history and ingrained patterns, believing anything could change is hard. But what we've found is that when one person does their work, it sets the stage for those around them and in their family to do the same.
Join us for the second part of our conversations with one family whose relationships with themselves, their partners, and one another have been deeply impacted by the work they did at Onsite.
Today, we'll talk with Mindy and Carl - the parents of a blended family of 8 - and their daughter Sydney and her husband Brandon. Together, they explore how the healing they've experienced on an individual level has rippled through their family system and beyond.
Mentioned in this episode:
4:01 - The relational impact of doing Onsite on the family unit
14:10 - Building a foundation and legacy of growth and healing
24:47 - Navigating changes and additions in a blended family.
31:01 - How to handle conflict and change in family
40:37 - Hopes for the future of their family system
At Onsite, we have discovered that when one person gets healthy, they often inspire and give permission to the people around them to do the same. This is especially true in family systems.
This episode is a beautiful testament to this idea. When Carl returned from his Living Centered Program, he vowed to tell everyone he knew and help others find the same healing he'd experienced — especially those in his immediate family.
Over the next two episodes, we'll introduce you to Carl and Mindy, their daughter Sydney, and son-in-law Brandon. All four are Onsite alums, and they join Hannah and Mickenzie to share how their individual Onsite experiences have impacted their relationships with themselves, their partners, and their larger family unit.
Today, we're bringing you a conversation between Mindy and Carl and a separate conversation between Sydney and Brandon. Tomorrow, join us for a conversation with the four of them as they explore the rippling impact of healing within a family!
Mentioned in this episode:
4:28 - Who are Mindy and Carl?
8:09 - How to parent adult children
13:10 - The importance of equipping your kids with mental health resources
19:29 - How Mindy and Carl blended their family after divorce
20:34 - How Mindy and Carl overcame therapy stigma and established a culture of personal growth in their home
23:20 - Mindy and Carl's Onsite experiences
41:06 - Who are Sydney and Brandon?
44:26 - How communication has played a role in Sydney and Brandon's relationship
45:28 - Sydney's Living Centered Program experience
48:51 - Brandon's experience with therapy before Onsite
50:14 - The impact of Onsite on Sydney and Brandon's relationship
1:02:49 - Experiential therapy and boundaries in our closes relationships
1:09:05 - How personal mental health can influence parenting
Discover the Right Onsite Experience For You
Whether you’re in a challenging season or just want to learn and grow, Onsite has an experience to meet you right where you are and guide you to the more you’re seeking.
We pair the finest hospitality with the best clinical minds in the country to guide you toward lasting transformation. Our holistic care is thoughtfully designed to help you connect to yourself and the community you form at Onsite.
You deserve healing. We're here to guide you! Start the process today or connect with our Admissions team at 1-800-341-7432 to discover the right experience for you!
Friendships as an adult can be complicated.
Our lives are busy, and we have responsibilities that keep us from committing the time and energy we want to invest. A fear of rejection may also hold us back from finding the depth we desire.
If you've been to an Onsite program, you may have left your experience longing for the depth of relationships you cultivated with others. But how do you create "Onsite friendships" in the real world?
Today, Lindsey and Mickenzie are joined by three Onsite Alumni, Ashley Eicher, Ashley Colclasure, and Beth Laird, whose connections to their Onsite experience paved the way for them to cultivate and sustain meaningful friendships with one another and others. Join us for an empowering, practical, and fun conversation that will equip you to lean into vulnerability, risk, and intentionality to build the relationships you deserve.
In this episode:
4:52 – How Onsite brought the three friends together
12:19 – How the pandemic deepened their friendship
17:19 – Creating trust, vulnerability, and repair in friendship
19:10 – Why we need different kinds of friendships
24:44 – Growth, loss, and boundaries in friendships after Onsite
44:50 - Maintaining depth in friendships despite distance and busy lives
Discover the Right Onsite Experience For You
Whether you’re in a challenging season or just want to learn and grow, Onsite has an experience to meet you right where you are and guide you to the more you’re seeking.
We pair the finest hospitality with the best clinical minds in the country to guide you toward lasting transformation. Our holistic care is thoughtfully designed to help you connect to yourself and the community you form at Onsite.
You deserve healing. We're here to guide you! Start the process today or connect with our Admissions team at 1-800-341-7432 to discover the right experience for you!
The relationships between a mother and her daughter can carry a bit of a stigma or troupe for being complicated and messy.
This week, Mickenzie and Lindsey connect with Kelly McDaniel, a licensed professional counselor, author, mother, and women’s advocate, to discuss the topic she has become most known for: Mother Hunger. Together, the three explore how our relationships with our mothers—men and women—can set the stage for every other relationship in our lives and how healing our attachment is a pivotal step in healing our relationships with our mothers.
In this episode:
3:57 – What is “Mother Hunger?”
8:17 – Mother-daughter relationships, cultural beliefs, and power dynamics in patriarchy
14:50 – How implicit memory impacts our relationships
20:09 – How Kelly uses Somatic Therapy to heal “Mother Hunger”
25:21 - Attachment styles, love languages, and their impact on relationships
30:43 – Grief healing and adoption
35:03 – What we need from our mothers
Discover the Right Onsite Experience For You
Whether you’re in a challenging season or just want to learn and grow, Onsite has an experience to meet you right where you are and guide you to the more you’re seeking.
We pair the finest hospitality with the best clinical minds in the country to guide you toward lasting transformation. Our holistic care is thoughtfully designed to help you connect to yourself and the community you form at Onsite.
You deserve healing. We're here to guide you! Start the process today or connect with our Admissions team at 1-800-341-7432 to discover the right experience for you!
At first glance, the connection between our nervous system and our relationships may seem unclear. However, after this powerful and approachable conversation, you'll gain a practical understanding of how your nervous system influences your attachment style and childhood conditioning for safety.
Join Mickenzie and Hannah for a fascinating conversation with Dr. Keri Johnson. Dr. Keri brings incredible expertise as a Somatic Trauma Therapist, educator, and yoga practitioner to ground several complex topics and create paths to better understand ourselves and others.
Mentioned in this episode:
6:36 – Who is Dr. Keri Johnson?
9:02 - Grief, trauma, and healing through somatic work and yoga
19:08 – How Dr. Keri Johnson got into Somatic Trauma Therapy
27:00 – States of the Nervous System and Polyvagal Theory
33:41 – How the Nervous System is correlated with our attachment style
44:16 – How our attachment shifts in different relationships
Discover the Right Onsite Experience For You
Whether you’re in a challenging season or just want to learn and grow, Onsite has an experience to meet you right where you are and guide you to the more you’re seeking.
We pair the finest hospitality with the best clinical minds in the country to guide you toward lasting transformation. Our holistic care is thoughtfully designed to help you connect to yourself and the community you form at Onsite.
You deserve healing. We're here to guide you! Start the process today or connect with our Admissions team at 1-800-341-7432 to discover the right experience for you!
One of the best things you can bring to any relationship is a whole and healthy you. At Onsite, we have discovered that when one person begins doing “their work,” it often inspires and gives permission to the people around them to do the same, especially in our partnerships.
Onsite Alum Laura and Shane Quick are living proof that doing your own emotional and mental health work is one of the most important things you and your partner can bring to your partnership. In today’s episode, they joined Mickenzie and Lindsey for our live podcast event to share their individual and collective mental health journeys. Together, they explore how this has impacted their partnership and every other relationship and role they have in life as parents, friends, business owners, and beyond.
In this episode:
5:20 - Who are Laura and Shane Quick?
7:32 – How the Quicks heard about Onsite
11:21 – Shane Quick’s Living Centered Workshop experience
16:14 – How the Quicks stay connected in the busyness of life
19:08 – Laura Quick’s Living Centered Workshop experience
22:33 – How Shane used work to cope with his traumatic childhood
28:41 – Laura and Shane Quick’s Couple Intensive experience
34:05 – Why Laura and Shane are passionate advocates for mental health in your partnership
35:21 – How boundaries play out in a partnership
38:58 – Why Shane and Laura do individual therapy
43:00 – How individual and couple’s therapy has impacted the Quicks other relationships
55:43 – A practice that keeps them centered in their partnership
Discover the Right Onsite Experience For You
Whether you’re in a challenging season or just want to learn and grow, Onsite has an experience to meet you right where you are and guide you to the more you’re seeking.
We pair the finest hospitality with the best clinical minds in the country to guide you toward lasting transformation. Our holistic care is thoughtfully designed to help you connect to yourself and the community you form at Onsite.
You deserve healing. We're here to guide you! Start the process today or connect with our Admissions team at 1-800-341-7432 to discover the right experience for you!
Have you ever wondered if therapy could be right for you and your partner? When is the right time? Should we do individual or couples work? Why do we find ourselves in the same cycles over and over?
Today, we're bringing in an expert to help us get to the bottom of your questions! Mickenzie and Lindsey sit down with Onsite Clinician and EFT Trained Couple's Therapist, Matt Wade. Taking a deep dive into how our attachment can impact our partnership, Matt shares his personal story and how it informed a major career pivot to work with couples. Together, we'll explore how couples' work can repair and strengthen your relationship and help you overcome the patterns of conflict and hurt that keep you stuck in your partnership!
In this Episode:
5:19 – Who is Matt Wade?
8:17 – How the pain in Matt’s story and marriage led him to Onsite
17:35 – How Matt pays forward the healing in his marriage for other couples
18:58 – What is Emotionally Focused Therapy?
20:46 – When to do couple’s therapy and when to do individual therapy
26:12 – How attachment plays out in couples
31:07 – What are the steps to creating a solid foundation in your relationships?
35:53 - The role of disclosure in couples’ work
39:38 – How to assess if it’s time to leave a relationship
43:15 – Matt's practice for staying centered in his partnership
Discover the Right Onsite Experience For You
Whether you’re in a challenging season or just want to learn and grow, Onsite has an experience to meet you right where you are and guide you to the more you’re seeking.
We pair the finest hospitality with the best clinical minds in the country to guide you toward lasting transformation. Our holistic care is thoughtfully designed to help you connect to yourself and the community you form at Onsite.
You deserve healing. We're here to guide you! Start the process today or connect with our Admissions team at 1-800-341-7432 to discover the right experience for you!
Did you grow up in a family that "did emotions?" Do you feel you sometimes lack the tools to overcome struggles or develop coping skills?
As adults invested in the lives of the kids in our world, we all want to give them the things we didn't have. In this series about relationships, we wanted to know the keys to raising emotionally healthy kids, so we brought in the experts!
Join Hannah and Lindsey for a conversation with Sissy Goff and David Thomas, Executive Directors of Daystar Counseling in Nashville. For over three decades, Sissy and David have been providing support, encouragement, and compassion to children, adolescents, and families through counseling. In this episode, they share some of the trends they see for kids in this present moment, strategies to connect with our kids, and the importance of doing our own work. If you're a grown-up who wants to show up for the kids in your life, this episode is for you!
Mentioned in this episode:
6:18 – Working towards the first generation of emotionally healthy kids
9:06 – Why parents need to do their own emotional and mental health work
10:37 – Coping strategies for families experiencing big emotions
13:09 – How emotional health gets overcomplicated with kids and adults
21:20 – How their childhoods impacted the work Sissy and David do now
27:01 – How to talk to your kids about your own therapy
28:08 – Mental health trends for kids in 2024
31:23 – Understanding anxiety in boys and girls
38:40 – Helping kids practice taking safe risks
40:54 – How Sissy and David use group therapy with kids
44:48 – The impact birth order plays in kids' understanding of self
47:53 – Why it’s important for kids to have a community of safe adults
51:37 – The practices that keep Sissy and David centered
Discover the Right Onsite Experience For You
Whether you’re in a challenging season or just want to learn and grow, Onsite has an experience to meet you right where you are and guide you to the more you’re seeking.
We pair the finest hospitality with the best clinical minds in the country to guide you toward lasting transformation. Our holistic care is thoughtfully designed to help you connect to yourself and the community you form at Onsite.
You deserve healing. We're here to guide you! Start the process today or connect with our Admissions team at 1-800-341-7432 to discover the right experience for you!
What happens when the person you’re spending your life with turns out not to be who you thought they were?
Stephanie Quayle knows because she lived it. She joins the show to share her story of a toxic relationship that left her questioning everything she knew about the world, her partner, and herself.
Stephanie Quayle is a musician, entrepreneur, and author of the new book, “Why We Stay.” Sitting down for a raw and authentic conversation, Stephanie shares how she partnered with the leading expert on Narcissism, Dr. W. Keith Campbell, to write her journey of healing in hopes of helping others regain agency and rediscover the capacity to trust themselves. This conversation is vulnerable, powerful, and a must listen no matter your current relationship status.
In this episode:
1:52 – A call to take care of yourself and a content warning for this episode
5:02 – Why Stephanie is taking care of herself with the release of her new book
8:00 – How Stephanie’s life unraveled 15 years ago
13:37 – Dr. Keith Campbell’s work on narcissism and contribution to “Why We Stay”
17:09 – How narcissism played a role in Stephanie’s toxic relationship
26:29 – How Stephanie revisited the hard parts of her story
31:35 – Red flags in relationships
34:30 – How Stephanie learned to trust herself again
40:38 – Stephanie's encouragement for others in unhealthy relationships
Discover the Right Onsite Experience For You
Whether you’re in a challenging season or just want to learn and grow, Onsite has an experience to meet you right where you are and guide you to the more you’re seeking.
We pair the finest hospitality with the best clinical minds in the country to guide you toward lasting transformation. Our holistic care is thoughtfully designed to help you connect to yourself and the community you form at Onsite.
You deserve healing. We're here to guide you! Start the process today or connect with our Admissions team at 1-800-341-7432 to discover the right experience for you!
Do you define yourself by your relationships? The roles we carry as children, partners, friends, and co-workers carry significant weight in how we show up in the world, but we can overly identify with these roles at the expense of our health and wellness.
Today, Hannah and Mickenzie are joined by Onsite Alum, Bentley Caldwell. When Bentley noticed that his past was impacting how he showed up in his most important relationships, Bentley attended Onsite's Treating Trauma Program.
Throughout this conversation, he shares his story of transformation and a powerful story of meeting his birth father and renegotiating and reclaiming his title as a son.
In this episode:
3:05 - Who is Bentley Caldwell?
5:59 - Why Bentley attended Onsite's Healing Trauma Program
9:45 - How Bentley's past trauma was impacting his relationships
16:38 - The relationships formed through Onsite's Healing Trauma Program
19:42 - Healing relational trauma through inner-child work
25:56 - SElf-love, growth, and setting boundaries
29:48 - Finding peace through learning to trust self
38:07 - How Bentley reunited with his father and addressed abandonment wounds
44:45 - Healing relationships through empathy and curiosity
Programs mentioned in this episode:
Healing Trauma Program
Tired of dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, or isolation? Our world-renowned workshop is designed to address the disruptions that can follow trauma and provide you with the tools necessary to reset and recover.
Discover the Right Onsite Experience For You
Whether you’re in a challenging season or just want to learn and grow, Onsite has an experience to meet you right where you are and guide you to the more you’re seeking.
We pair the finest hospitality with the best clinical minds in the country to guide you toward lasting transformation. Our holistic care is thoughtfully designed to help you connect to yourself and the community you form at Onsite.
You deserve healing. We're here to guide you! Start the process today or connect with our Admissions team at 1-800-341-7432 to discover the right experience for you!
