Health & Wellness

The Mind, Body, Spirit Connection 

A founding principle of Evoke Therapy Programs is to provide the best possible treatment for our clients to achieve and sustain a healthy, happy life. To accomplish this, we must consider a person’s whole health. Supporting the mind, body, and spirit connection is essential for long-term sustainable growth and transformation to take place.

Clinical research shows that diet, nutrition, exercise, and spiritual connection enhances and maintains positive psychological changes, elevates moods, and increases confidence. Evoke Therapy Programs supports the health of our participants by diverse and well-informed means that include daily hikes, backpacking, adventure activities, yoga, meditation, active recreation, service/work projects, healthy diet, and cooking & nutrition classes. An individual's health and well-being require attention to the whole person.

Nutrition

Food is an intimate part of life and plays a central role in one's daily schedule. How we feed our bodies often reflects how well we are feeding our emotional, psychological, and spiritual self. Evoke educates participants on healthy cooking, mindful eating, simple nutrition, and cultivating a more intentional and exciting relationship with food.

One of the most intimate connections with the outside world, physiologically, comes from the food we eat. The nutrients present or absent in our diet ultimately become the chemical structures, or lack of, of our bodies. This connection strongly influences our cognitive ability, our physical vitality, and our nervous system’s responses and processes. This translates into how we perceive and navigate our internal and external world every second of our life.

Emerging research links symptoms of anxiety, depression, and other psychological maladies to poor food choices—neglecting structured mealtimes, binging, restricting, or simply consuming poor quality/junk food. For this reason, we are dedicated to providing participants in our programs with nutrient-dense foods and strive to source organic, local, and consciously cultivated foods as often as possible. Beyond providing a health menu, we strive to teach and inspire healthy eating habits and offer simple, sound information on nutrition and its role in psychological well-being.

Mindfulness

Mindfulness and clinical therapeutic treatment share common goals — establishing greater health and well-being by creating cognitive, behavioral, and emotional change.

The practices by which we hope to engender these outcomes are also similar: inviting introspection and greater self-awareness, building resiliency and intrapersonal resources, promoting self-efficacy, and positive emotional response (outlook). We supplement our clinical focus with mindfulness practices to augment the therapeutic process for our participants.

Spirit

We help clients cultivate a deeper sense of self. One critical way we do this is by helping them understand what spirituality is and how it can benefit them.

Spirituality is often misunderstood and at times is only seen as organized religion, church, and god — all of which can be crucial for some clients’ spirituality; however, spirituality is also meditation, personal prayer or reflection, solos, and nature walks. These inner personal experiences and processes help clients connect to their more authentic self while providing a better understanding of the world around them and their existence in it.

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"Evoke was the catalyst in our daughter turning away from oppositional and destructive behavior to making healthy and productive choices for her future. Your program provided excellent communication, education, and support to us during her wilderness intervention. We are hopeful for her future and grateful for all of the professionals at Evoke."

— Evoke Wilderness Parent