Though we cannot guarantee recovery from any specific health condition and issue, many Fresh Start guests have found the Programs helpful with addressing:

If in addition to emotional health issues, I suffer from physical illnesses or unhealthy habits, can I work on all of those simultaneously?

Most people who come to Fresh Start Health Restoration Retreat to work on their Emotional Health typically have more than one condition of need. You may be suffering from depression, want to Quit Smoking/Marijuana, are dealing with heartburn, cannot sleep, have diarrhea or constipation and want to re-acquire healthy meal preparation skills. Or maybe you are on a ton of medications, already have a fatty liver, inflammation of the nervous system or body tissues, mobility issues and are in a lot of pain. And you totally do not know where to start or what to focus on.

The good news is that we work with guests with multiple health challenges regularly. Though emotional wellness will be your primary focus, we will dedicate some time to physical aspects of your health and habits repatterning, too.

Many of our protocols and the Core Program are designed to help improve your digestive, hormonal and nervous systems, which are typically impacted by stress.

However, you can never work intensively with all health issues at once, as it is not safe and ineffective.

For example, if you smoke and suffer from emotional issues, you may not be able to quit until you stabilize your emotions, because you use smoking as a pain killer for your soul. You may try to be too hard on yourself, but if you are severely dysregulated, trying to quit cold turkey may add even more stress. If the emotional disbalance is milder and a person is very determined, both goals often may be achieved simultaneously.

Another example: you may wish to work with your body inflammation or weight loss, but if your Nervous System is really out of whack, which is often the case with emotional issues, you may not be able to tackle physical issues extensively in your first visit, because you would get overwhelmed and not able to handle that work. Weight loss also may not progress, when your body is in the fight-and-flight mode, because the body uses weight as a protective mechanism and may not want to let go of it. Focusing on weight loss, when you are a “basket case” is ineffective, taxing and will not produce long-lasting results.

If you suffer from both advanced emotional and advanced physical issues plus unhealthy habits, most often you will need to start with emotional wellness. If you have advanced depression or anxiety, please do not anticipate working in depth on physical health issues during your first program session. The only exception is when the very emotional issues are caused by physical pain/ condition and the emotional problems are secondary in origin. In that case, it makes sense to start with physical health issues, as their improvement will be a major factor in your emotional healing. Technically, it will be the Physical Health area of focus.

On the other hand, once your nervous system starts stabilizing or your emotional state is quite stable, to begin with, you may be able to work on other issues at the same time. For example, many guests who suffer from mild to moderate levels of depression, often are able to simultaneously handle advanced digestive system detox (digestive flushes and colonics). In very dysregulated cases, we may need to keep your detox milder, but it still will be done through a special healing diet and enhanced hydration.

If you are on medications and are considering adjusting them, our Naturopathic Physician is able to review them upon request (at a specially scheduled medical consult) and may help you gradually start decreasing them, provided you start improving and it is safe. Our Naturopathic Physician can make adjustments to anti-depressants and most medications, but some meds are not within his/ her scope of work, including anti-psychotic meds, as those require the aid of a psychiatrist.

Summary: While all areas of health are typically worked on along with your emotional well-being, it is unsafe and unrealistic to work on all issues in-depth simultaneously. If you have a lot on your plate, you may need multiple program visits to address each issue separately.  If one issue is very advanced (ex. you start emotionally at minus a million points), one program may not be sufficient to see a major turnaround (you may be able to improve from the minus million to a minus hundred point mark, but not to a plus 100).

What besides my Individual Health Services, will I be doing at the Fresh Start?

Fresh Start Emotional Wellness Team

Disclaimer: Results of participants differ and the Fresh Start cannot guarantee that you will experience your improvements in the same way as in this testimonial. The Fresh Start is not an allopathic medical facility and does not claim to either diagnose or treat any disease. The Fresh Start does not guarantee a recovery from any specific disease or a health symptom.