ARCS Programs
ARCS can customize comprehensive intervention and treatment protocols, working in conjunction with national organizations to coordinate services such as detox, specialized treatment, transitional living and aftercare.
It is often noted that trauma symptoms are progressive, meaning that both they and their respective consequences worsen, over time. However, it's less commonly stated but even more important to recognize that recovery from trauma is also progressive in its character --- it gets both easier and more fulfilling, over time.
It is often noted that trauma symptoms are progressive, meaning that both they and their respective consequences worsen, over time. However, it's less commonly stated but even more important to recognize that recovery from trauma is also progressive in its character --- it gets both easier and more fulfilling, over time.
Recovery from trauma is progressive --- it gets easier and more fulfilling, over time.
You might expect that we would track such a path to wellness with a graph of steady incline, but we who are on the front lines of the battle against intergenerational abuse, trauma and addiction know from experience that this would be a misleading and inaccurate representation.
Rather, the road to wholeness would best be marked by the classic bell curve, or "arc-shaped" graph. "Why?", you might ask. This does, indeed, seem strange and counter-intuitive, since the the earliest days of recovery are surely the toughest.
Yes, the earliest phases of healing are the most difficult, but they are not the most vulnerable! For instance, most laypersons (and, even, some professionals) are unaware of the fact that a move from any inpatient treatment program to a less intensive phase of healing is an infinitely more precarious time than is initial enrollment in the process.
The earliest phases of healing are the most difficult, but they are not the most vulnerable!
In fact, survivors tend to feel comfortable when things are tough. It's an understandable phenomenon, since difficult and even life-threatening circumstances require that survivor employ --- well, their survival skills --- the coping mechanisms to which they are most adapted and with which they are best equipped.
It's when the chaos calms that they are left flopping about like a fish out of water, and returning to dangerous behavior and relationship patters can seem like a good way to ease the anxiety that comes from newly-found but still unfamiliar serenity. Essentially, by unconsciously recreating survival situations, they regain a false and fleeting --- yet nevertheless powerful --- sense of control.
Returning to dangerous behavior and relationship patters can seem like a good way to ease the anxiety that comes from newly-found but unfamiliar serenity.
ARCS stays with you through the entire healing journey, so that you continue getting just as much attention during the more vulnerable phases as you did during your first call for help. We offer case management and coordination services which are unparalleled in the counseling field.
ARCS stays with you through the entire healing journey, so that you continue getting just as much attention during the more vulnerable phases as you did during your first call for help.
ARCS can structure a customized constellation of services, that will sustain you throughout your healing process.