Lumin Wellness

09/30/2025

A new study found reducing your smartphone usage by just an hour a day for a week can improve your mental health.

A small reduction in the amount of time you use your smartphone on a daily basis can improve your mental health.

09/23/2025

How many decisions do you think you make during the average day? Dozens? Hundreds, perhaps? Psychologists believe that the number is actually in the thousands. Some of these decisions have resounding effects over the course of our lives (like whether or not to go to college, get married, or have kids), while others are relatively trivial (like whether to have a ham or turkey sandwich for lunch).

We all make bad decisions sometimes, but knowing why this happens can help. Learn the reasons for bad decisions and what you can do to make better choices.

09/16/2025

Ask a Therapist: How Do I Make Friends as an Adult?

There are many reasons to feel you don't need friends or to wonder 'Why don't I have friends?' Learn what causes these feelings and the effects of having no friends.

09/09/2025

The urge to scroll is strong, especially when you're bored. And an ever increasing appetite for stimulation can easily be whet just by hopping on a smartphone and perusing social media. While the convenience is undeniable, new research makes it more clear that mindlessly checking our phones and social media profiles has become the fast food of fuel for the mind, providing for the most part only empty calories and leaving us even less satisfied than before.

Researchers have found that people with more self-compassion are less likely to feel bored, so what can you do to cultivate this trait?

09/02/2025

Deal With Past Mistakes! 😔
Most people who make their way into recovery have left a lot of pain and suffering in their wake. Feeling guilty or ashamed of past behavior or actions during active addiction is natural and healthy. Shame is having negative beliefs about yourself and your self-worth. Guilt is having negative feelings about your past behavior. People in recovery can experience a lot of shame simply for having become addicted in the first place.

08/26/2025

We offer Addiction Group Therapy! Group therapy can be beneficial when treating people with opioid use disorders by assisting with the need to belong. Peer interaction and relating to others is often a vital part of the recovery process. Allowing clients to help themselves by helping others in the group, the clients feel less isolated and ashamed. Groups can provide emotional support and confrontation, along with information and understanding.

08/19/2025

Prepare Your Story! Decide what you’ll say if someone asks why you’re sober. You can try to avoid the conversation, but it’s good to have a response ready in case that’s not possible. If the question comes from someone you know well, you may want to say that drugs or alcohol became a problem for you, so you’re staying away from them. If you don’t know the person well, simply saying you have to get up early the next morning or you quit for health reasons should be enough.

08/12/2025

Develop a Structured Schedule. 📆
Having a chaotic or disorganized lifestyle can also hinder your recovery. It's important to develop a structured daily and weekly schedule and stick to it. A structured routine will help you achieve other goals in your life, whether they are short-term (like being on time for work) or long-term (like going back to school and changing careers). Staying sober is a high priority, but developing and pursuing other goals can help you maintain that sobriety.

08/05/2025

Find an Activity That Means Something to You! ❤️

You may want to start an exercise routine -- exercise releases brain chemicals called endorphins, which can make you feel good. Or you might rather spend time volunteering for a good cause, like an animal shelter or children’s hospital. Whatever it is, new activities can lead to new friends with interests like yours.

07/29/2025

We offer Individual Counseling Sessions! In individual therapy sessions, clients will be encouraged to work on processing feelings, understanding how to regulate emotions, especially related to their addiction, as well as other life events. Clients work with their dedicated counselor to develop a professional relationship built on trust and commitment to recovery.

07/22/2025

Meet Ian Watts, Executive Director!
Ian has a heart for service. He has served in leadership roles providing services to those who have often been neglected, mistreated, and living through the reality of substance abuse. He is particularly drawn to this service based upon the devastating impact and chronic history of substance abuse in his own family. Ian invested over 10 years in ministry service at Evangel Ministries, in Detroit, in an area plagued by low income, drug abuse, crime and poor literacy rates. As the Director of EMERG, a ministry team of over 30 people, he facilitated: ongoing substance abuse referrals, interventions, counseling, job training, job placement, and financial literacy and entrepreneurship training to over 2500 people.

Ian also has significant business operations experience. He ran the HR, IT and Special Projects Departments for the fastest growing laser aesthetics company in the US, which grew from 6 clinics to 61 clinics in just over two years. As an entrepreneur, Ian has raised millions in capital, launched multiple businesses, and provided coaching and training for business owners in over 40 states in the US and in many countries around the world, including China, Hong Kong, Canada, The United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia and Australia. His mission is to, “Build Businesses that Bless the World.” As the Executive Director of Lumin Wellness, he is looking forward to developing a culture of service excellence, implementing systems that best support wellness, and leading the team to fulfill its mission, “To light a path and be a guide for clients seeking Hope, Good Health and Healing from Substance Use Disorders.

07/15/2025

Check out these actionable ways to find and harness motivation—even when you’re not feeling it:

Fitness trainer Jillian Michaels shares strategies to help you motivate yourself as a guest on episode 79 of The Verywell Mind Podcast.