18Mar
17Mar
What Makes Serenity Vista Special?
If you're looking for a holistic approach to rehab, Panama is an excellent destination to consider. Panama offers the perfect mix of sun, sea, and tranquility, making it an ideal place for anyone looking to escape the hustle and bustle of everyday life while focusing on their recovery. Comprehensive holistic therapies One of the main advantages of rehab in Panama is the holistic approach to treatment. Holistic rehab aims to treat the whole person, not just their addiction. This means addressing physical,...
09Jan
Winter Blues? Sad? Struggling with Addiction?
Struggling with Addiction this Winter? It's dark in the morning and dark in the afternoon. The holidays are over and spring is way off in the far too-distant future. It's cold. This is the season when depression sets in deep. As if compulsive drug use, drug addiction, drinking alcohol and alcoholism aren't difficult enough, this time of year makes struggling with addiction extra unbearable. Winter blues (or seasonal affective disorder, SAD), pill taking, depression, alcoholic drinking and addiction often go hand...
21Dec
Home for the Holidays or Rehab?
Family Holiday - Trigger! Family holidays can be wonderful occasions, just like a Norman Rockwell illustration where everyone looks happy. On the other hand, they can be nothing like that at all. They can be a big trigger! Perhaps you grew up in an alcoholic or similarly dysfunctional home and when you get together with your family of origin, you reprise the same role you played growing up: a clown, a scapegoat, or the perfect child. You’ve been battling your demons for...
03Dec
Spending Christmas In Rehab? Yes!
It May Be Your Best Idea Yet to Spend Christmas in Rehab! Chritmas is fast approaching, again. Countless will wish you a "Merry Christmas". Oh, "bah humbug", may cross your mind! That’s a sentiment expressed by many people at this time of year. The pressures can be unbearable for such a joyous time, even more so for addicts and alcoholics, even if they are sober in recovery. But Why? Old Wounds Cut Deep Let’s forget about the stresses of buying gifts and how much...
08Nov
Addiction Treatment in Central America for English Speakers Worldwide
Beautiful Central America Central America is showing up on the radar in North America, South America, the UK, The Netherlands & Europe as a desired destination for vacation travel, eco-tourism, and medical tourism including for alcohol & drug addiction treatment ("drug rehab"). Central America, famous for its warm and welcoming peoples including many self-governing indigenous groups. Both the Pacific and Caribbean oceans border most countries. Delicious exotic fruits, spectacular flowers and the world’s best shade grown and handpicked specialty coffees. The mountain...
05Nov
How to Tell Your Loved Ones About Going To Rehab
Do your loved ones support you going to rehab? Usually, family and loved are grateful you are making the decision for healing in your life. It is likely no surprise to them that you need rehab, nevertheless, there are sometimes reasons why they might be against you going to rehab. You may need some assistance in the process of how tell your loved ones about going to rehab. They tell you you’re not really that bad. (If you are “that bad,” they must be...
20Oct
Hitting Bottom – How Low Do I Have To Go?
Before it's 6 Feet Under Hitting bottom refers to a place that a person suffering from addiction needs to get to in order to be able to fully surrender. The question is, how low do I have to go? The truth is that everyone’s bottom is not the same and it takes very different things to make a person in active addiction admit defeat. Where is the Bottom? For a lot of alcoholics or addicts, eating from a dumpster, losing custody of children,...
29Sep
Serenity Vista Marks 10 years in Beautiful Panama!
Ten years ago, Jane and John arrived at the shores of Panama having sailed from Canada. Their mission was to establish a world-class, international alcohol & drug rehab in a non-clinical, beautiful retreat, get-away tropical destination. What a journey! Now, 10 years later, Serenity Vista is recognized as one of the world's most novel, highly effective, and best addiction treatment facility in the world! Serenity Vista is recognized as an outstanding facility in an idyllic setting with a comprehensive, holistic...
06Sep