The Meadows

I'll be a 30 year grad coming up in mid December. I was admitted on suicide watch. I didn't care how much it cost, I planned on being dead. My case was a bit complicated and a diagnosis and treatment plan took 2 weeks. I needed to do a lot of work in a totally safe place with the best guidance and The Meadows provided that. My life since hasn't been great all the time but it's been good overall. The main thing is that I learned to have a life, my own life, at The Meadows. My discharge papers weren't very encouraging but even that helped. I knew I'd have to use every single thing I learned. And I did. And here it is 30 years later. I can't thank this place enough.

September-November 2023 . Meadows all around was great !!! Definitely gave me the tools that I still use today that WORK. All of the staff were professional at all times. After reading reviews on here I think many believe Meadows is going to be a vacation resort or something, maybe I don’t understand their expectations. Staff try their very best, and they understand what your going through, as long as your respectful you will get that in return. My experience at Meadows was that 95% of the patients there actually wanted to be there. Judgment free and very safe place, food is good . I actually miss being there lol it’s a place where you get to concentrate yourself . THANK YOU MEADOWS !! You all are awesome.

Coming to The Meadows was the best decision I have ever made in my life. I had tried to get sober and relapsed after attending another prestigious rehab, when our searches led us to the Meadows. We chose The Meadows due to their specialization in trauma recovery. The combination of somatic experiencing, and holistic therapies including yoga, accupuncture, art therapy, brain spa and equine therapy is hard to come across. The whole program is backed in scientific methods, and focused on understanding why addiction might develop. As a fellow professional, I am extremely impressed by the Senior Fellows on staff who have dense research in all field related to trauma and addiction. I still read all of the literature published by them to this day. The Meadows doesn’t just treat the symptom of addiction, it treats the root causes of it. I was SAD to leave. I continued to do their intensive outpatient therapy after discharge. My life changed COMPLETELY for the better because of this program. I believe so much in their methods that I then went on to enter the Somatic Experiencing Professional training to be able to integrate them into my own practice (I am a physical therapist). This place is nothing short of miraculous and I would attend again in a heart beat and have recommended it to numerous friends, patients and family. This is THE place to be for trauma and addiction recovery. Now, I am three years sober and have no urge to drink. I am in a healthy, loving relationship and have opened my own private practice.

This place saved and changed my life. The meadows model works. The staff is amazing and the therapy is the best and most impactful I've ever experienced. If you're willing to do the work, this program can change your life.

Very unprofessional and definitely do NOT recommend. I have a family member there now. They have completely ignored previous medical records and family concerns. The family member has narcissistic tendencies when they feel threatened. They manipulated the supposed phone schedule to call from a therapists office and left the impromptu trauma session on family voicemail. The family member later admitted to lying to the therapist in hopes of baiting me into communication. The Meadows was informed of the incident and claimed to be looking into it, but there's been no word back after over a week and then they let the family member have access to their personal phone (supposedly not allowed) after I blocked the clinic numbers. Reply: Advertised on your website: "At The Meadows, we understand this and work with families, including them in the treatment process, so that there can be healing for everyone involved." Our family has been completely excluded from the treatment process and definitely have NOT been extended an opportunity to heal. In fact my concerns have been completely ignored, despite having a ROI on file. The lack of inclusion has caused an irreparable fissure in our marriage and my spouse has been asked to not return. Anyone considering treatment at this place needs to decide if their personal mental health is worth losing their marriage or if a family centered program would be a better fit. And I definitely will not be holding my breath for your "clinical team" to actually care, especially the "family counselor".

The entire Meadows organization is an unethical money-making scam. Send yourself or your loved one anywhere else. Going here was was one of the worst decisions I have ever made, drunk or sober. I was talked into wiring $76,000 to the Meadows with promises of a unique and life-changing program. What I got was laughable therapeutic modalities, run-down facilities, counter-productive peer-lead 12 Step meetings that do nothing to prepare you for actual AA, and poor-quality food. The pool is almost never open; the only common area has few recreation opportunities and a TV that is always blaring. Additionally, there is a cult-like fixation on their boss, Pia Melody, the multi-millionaire that owns this for-profit corporation. I'm sure extensive deferred maintenance of the facility has improved her bottom line. I am sober today by the grace of God, the help of AA, and Harmony of Estes Park, CO., with no thanks to this organization. If you need help, get help that will have an impact on your life, not merely your finances.

This place supposedly treated Rachel Leviss (entered treatment as her made up name Raquel. She has since left and has tried to start a take down podcast of Vanderpump Rules and its cast members. She hasn’t taken responsibility for her disgusting behaviour that contributed to her mentalness, she has continued to sue the women who’s man she had an affair with. It seems like this facility only ENABLED this creature to continue to cause harm. At $200k what did you do to this women to make her seem half healed???? The fact she is out here on social media, posting about the e cast who have long forgotten her, is PROOF THE MEADOWS DOES NOT WORK. SAVE YOUR MONEY PEOPLE!!! There is a real life case out on social media who is proving this facility only validates and enables these critters to behave the way they do. DO BETTER MEADOWS Rachel Leviss is damaging your sanctuary with her public displays of podcast crazyness and social media posts. This girl is a hot mess and she spent a looooong time and a lot of money at this resort.

I would recommend looking elsewhere for anyone dealing with Trauma. I am a physician and would like to share our experience with the Meadows. My wife of 40 years has been suffering from PTSD, depression and anxiety. She suffered for years with unimaginable pain before being properly diagnosed. She is by no means an addict, in fact she was on extremely high doses of opioids for months at a time both by mouth and IV. Once she was diagnosed her pain improved and she went thru 29 days of withdrawal on her own. She elected to go to an inpatient program to try to heal herself. We had lots of concerns and spoke with the medical director for 45 minutes before agreeing to be admitted. We asked if they had other patients that were dealing with trauma that were not addicts. We were told there were plenty. My wife has severe insomnia and only sleeps 45 minutes at night. She needs meds to help her sleep, otherwise she is non functional and would get nothing out of the program. We asked if she could continue with sleep meds and they said they would try to slowly taper, something which she was not opposed to. My wife was admitted, spent 3 days with 2 other women in one room. There was no room to transfer her to the “dorm”. The first night she was there they took away sleep meds, so she did not sleep. She was placed in a group of 8 and she was the only one without substance abuse. They told her she was “no different than anyone else there” She decided that this was not the right program for her. In 3 day, no therapy, no sleep, and accused of being and addict. My wife left and we found another program, Sierra Tucson, where they would listen to her needs. I had paid the Meadows 70K upfront for the 30 day program. The contract with the Meadows did state they would keep 20 K if she left within 2 weeks. I spoke with them and told them a patient who is admitted for trauma should not leave with more trauma and that it is unethical for them to keep 20K for 3 days. I even offered to pay for 3 days and they only agreed to keep 10K. This shows that they seem more interested in money than being honorable.