The Arise society has changed my life forever, and in the most profound and beautiful ways. Here are the lasting impacts it’s had on me after years later and how Arise helped me achieve them: On the therapy aspect, Arise helped me explore my depths, fully beyond all symptom management to find the real root causes of all my struggles. This way, it addressed and healed the source of my pains so my symptoms wouldn’t keep repeating again someday later when no longer “managed”. They also helped me identify my behavioral patterns that were getting in the way of my life that I kept repeating that kept me stuck so I could learn to break my unhealthy patterns that didn’t serve me and become a new, healthier version of myself, where I was now empowered to be able to choose a better way through life. On the social aspect, Arise has remarkable group and family therapy that directly explores interpersonal conflicts and teaches how to navigate these conflicts. The methods I’ve learned are so effective that I still use them every time I get into a conflict with someone I love now. It has not only saved so many of my connections in times of conflict, but nearly always results in bringing us closer than ever before. (The conflict resolution skills Arise teaches yield ways through to understanding each other and the goal is to come together in conflicts, oppositely of emotional reactivity/“being right”). It also helps bring light to unhelpful relationship patterns we all have so we can choose to learn a better way to connect to others that helps us have more fulfilling and heartfelt, genuine connections. The Arise community often creates lifelong lasting connections because of this. (Me and my Arise besties agree we’re bonded together for life, and now call each other “soul friends”!) On the school and lifestyle side, Arise gives its students a good amount of freedom while still keeping them safe, so that Arise can gauge what areas of support the student will need and what areas they can expand freedoms, tailoring the program to every individual to get the exact type of treatment necessary for optimal results. Arise uniquely allows a safe space for students to not only be successful, but also fail, with safe guards in place of course, so students can not only learn how to succeed, but even more empowering than that, learn also how to recover themselves when they make a mistake, fail, and struggle in life. My final personal thoughts are that Arise is an incredibly unique program that is very intentionally designed to actually, genuinely help people. It is a remarkable program that is extremely effective if the student is motivated to work it. It changes lives in the most amazing ways, forever, in highly skillful ways that I find are unparalleled in the industry (in my experience). The therapists and essentially all the staff really pour their hearts out into their jobs to try to really invest in the students and help heal. This program woke me up profoundly and beautifully in ways that helped me actually become aware of myself, and furthermore, learn the tools needed in order for me to change my life to be what I want it to be in my heart, instead of me blindly continuing to repeat the same problem behaviors that were making me miserable in the end, in that nightmare instant gratification cycle that kept making me worse and worse, that i had been stuck in coming into the program. I rebuilt my foundation to instead grow and seek healthy change, and ever since, I have been building on this new foundation in this new direction now, and its taking me and my life into blooming into the most incredible growths I could never even repay Arise for. Arise will not work for students with drug issues or if the student is not motivated to do the program, but if the student is ready to change, the most remarkable changes of their life may very well be here, as it was for me. I would not be alive anymore if it wasn’t for Arise. Arise gave me a second chance at life that I never would’ve had otherwise. Thank you, Arise.
