Center for Life Strategies

NewTown University Hospital Center for Life Strategies is an emotional hospital and residential therapeutic community that welcomes individuals and families who have adopted a number of survival and coping strategies that are no longer serving their highest good and make it difficult, if not impossible for them to thrive or get along with other people or groups in the rest of the world. Many of these people have been “diagnosed” and labeled by traditional behavioral health professionals as suffering from “borderline personality disorder (BPD)” or “severe emotional disorder (SED)” The Center for Life Strategies has a fully functioning “Clubhouse” and is a member of the International Center for Clubhouse Development (ICCD.) See http://www.iccd.org

The Hospital will utilize such technologies as Nonviolent Communication, Compassionate Listening and others to model and suggest new ways to get one’s needs met; to thrive, not merely survive in the world. The purpose of the Emotional Hospital is to offer processes for emotional healing in an environment of acceptance, love, patience and compassion as people learn new and more rewarding skills for survival, coping and emotional intelligence.

The following is a short list of survival strategies that in my view do not serve the highest good:
· Passive-aggressiveness
· Socially manipulative behaviors
· Chronic fatigue and sickness
· Overmedication with legal and “illegal” remedies
· Drug, alcohol, and substance” use issues
· Low self-esteem
· Extreme victim consciousness
· Welfare and social dependency Issues
· Extreme childhood and family of origin trauma
· Effects of poverty
· Effects of incarceration
· Loss of dignity and liberty