Welcome to Breathe Life Healing Centers Los Angeles, CA

We have developed a trauma focused program that is built upon a foundation of Safety and Stabilization. Our model of Safety and Stabilization propose that although individual expression of eating disorder and Substances abuse show up differently and need to be addressed individually, we find commonality by using a trauma focused lens which views both as compensatory strategies aimed at self-regulation.

Therefore, our center provides the framework for individualized care. Each person has a treatment plan that is developed to meet them where they are in their personal recovery journey. Our structure of care is an individually and clinically driven model which assesses and addresses each person’s particular needs. Our model particularly recognizes that individuals are on a continuum of recovery around the fundamental goal of building a safe and stable life in the here and the now. At Breathe all programming is built on this goal by making central these three objectives of treatment:

1. Stabilizing within a structure of care in which to learn to release and be free from destructive compensatory survival strategies which include freedom from all forms of self-injurious behaviors including but not limited to addictive and eating disorder behaviors.
2. Learning to recognize and anticipate dysregulation in the mind/body and learn strategies that allow you to be in the present and utilize self and co-regulation skills.
3. Learning to move towards safety and away from danger- as fundamental key to recovery Your individual therapist, depending on your level of care will assist you in preparing a treatment schedule and structure that consists of group and individual therapy and consultations.

Your therapist will provide tasks or homework assignments to facilitate your growth. Most of the growth that you will do in treatment will come out of the interactions that happen with you as you relate to yourself and the others in your treatment cohort. We believe that treatment is most effective in a group— in which you can work on issues of safety and stability as they arise relationally.

Homework and tasks are designed and assigned individually to educate you about your compensatory strategies and trauma. We hope these assignments and tasks will disrupt you, challenge your experience, beliefs, principles, thinking, long held world views, and relational strategies. We hope these assignments will free you to begin the path where you love and are loved in a way that is meaningful for you. In short, we ask you to be filled with wonder and activate your specifically human gift of curiosity to build a new honest, open, willing and compassionate relationship with yourself and the community in which you find yourself: whether it be here at the clinic, the campus, transitional living or your home.

The Model of Safety and Stabilization is built upon profound experience, knowledge and respect for the individual as a being in relationship with others. We have developed a system which creates the opportunity for you to develop the necessary skills to live a stable and safe life regardless of your situation or history. You will need this foundation to build a new life.

There are boundaries and assignments built within the structure, depending on your level of care. Each level of care have assignments that are primarily skill focused and there are written assignments to help you gain awareness, the goal is to experience living skills. The skills will begin to reveal themselves to you and the treatment team in the way that you handle your day-to-day disappointments, relationship issues and setbacks.

This system is not built on rewards and punishments. If punishments were truly a motivating power, you would not be in treatment. You would have made the necessary changes already. You have probably paid more consequences for your disease than you had ever imagined you would.

You have an opportunity to study yourself- in an intentional healing community. You will have the gift of receiving mirroring feedback and information that can help you come to know and love yourself and others even as you access a new sense of life. This is not easy but can be incredibly rewarding. It is the starting place of transformation.