Cedar Lodge is both innovative and creative with its approach to treatment. We recognize that each person has specific needs and issues that require special attention. Each individual’s treatment plan is relevant to them at the time of admission.

We provide Christian-based counseling, helping people to be grounded in the Truth through the Word of God. This does not mean a participant must be a Christian in order to obtain counseling at Cedar Lodge. Our standard is to love people as Christ loved us, without conditions. Often we find this stems from a lack of foundational truths. Individuals begin to blossom spiritually as they are surrounded by the unconditional love of God under the direction of The Holy Spirit.

Cedar Lodge is unique in the fact that everyone who serves is a volunteer. The core group of volunteers simultaneously run a treatment facility, house of refuge and hotel/convention center. Individuals seeking to be healed are able, as their own healing progresses, to be involved in the active ministry around them. Thus one can personally experience the presence of the Lord and His love. It is His desire for us to embrace the servant heart of God, which ultimately makes us free.

All of this combines to bring restoration to individuals, families and communities. This ultimately restores us to God’s original plan to be in fellowship with Him as we seek His will for our lives and the lives of those around us.

Codependency

In the past, mental and emotional pain was the focus of healing; however, it is becoming more and more clear that without spiritual resolution of the issues at the core of the disorder there can be no healing of substance.

Recovery requires constructive boundary setting in order for the individual to discover who they are apart from their codependent relationships. Their lack of separation of ‘self’ from others results in a distorted and undefined sense of their relationship to the world around them. Codependents are continuously attracted to dysfunctional partners resulting in the reconfirmation of their ‘victim’ status.

Since a codependent’s worth is measured by how they perceive the outside world perceiving them, it is critical they be set free from the need for approval. Individuals who have come to identify their behaviour as ‘codependent’ will inevitably be required to address the results of their codependency in order to fully appreciate the patterns of dysfunction in their life. Codependency is a family affair. It is quite the norm for the whole family to be in need of a program of recovery, if for no other reason than to fully understand the identified codependent’s change of lifestyle.

Most of the traits of codependency are adaptive behaviours which have simply become a ‘way of life.’  The dysfunctional adaptations initially provide relief from pain which may result from any number of events which have brought on some of the following symptoms: guilt, shame, fear, loss, powerlessness, inadequacy. However, because the codependent cycle is addictive itself, there is never any sense of accomplishment but rather a continuing downward spiral of hopelessness and fear.

Cedar Lodge Outreach is both innovative and creative with its approach to treatment. We recognize that each person has specific needs and issues that require special attention. Each individual’s treatment plan is relevantly developed for them at the time of admission and continuous re-evaluation keeps the counsellors abreast of their current breakthroughs. Important to the healing process is the element of hope which the counsellors at Cedar Lodge never forefeit:

… that freedom is for everyone.

A person’s inability to be free often stems from a lack of foundational truths.

Individuals begin to blossom spiritually as they are surrounded by unconditional love. Our focus is to assist one another to address, embrace and overcome the pain of loss which has caused the codependent to remain empty and alone.

The benefits of reconstructive therapy far outweigh its difficulties. The ability to forgive is developed within the individual in order to explore feelings which may have been covered up for years.

Once these surface, within the safety net of our environment, the inexpressed feelings can be acknowledged, experienced and finally ‘let go.’

Freedom is realized when no institution, group, person or thing has power over one’s life; the power to live must be developed from within.  Cedar Lodge Outreach provides intensive and creative therapy which assists individuals who have been crippled by codependency to grow up into the life which was theirs from the beginning but somehow got lost along the way.

Since codependency is in essence the root issue of every addictive behaviour, our treatment facility, the only one of its kind in the Province of Saskatchewan, is equipped to fully comprehend all manner of disorders. Our counsellors are dedicated individuals who are committed to going the extra mile in order to bring independence to all those who walk through our doors.

Providing a Spirit of Excellence

The individuals and families we served had little or no access to city food services, may have lived in rural areas of Saskatoon, may have been bed ridden, or just too overwhelmed to make things work at home. Each of these groups required specific care and our volunteers made many sacrifices to meet their needs especially in times of crisis.

The future success of Cedar Lodge empowers our continued contributions to the community as a whole … a portion of the profits are designated each month for that purpose.

Your support greatly enhances the lives of many Saskatoon and area residents.

Cedar Lodge Outreach gratefully appreciates your consideration of our work.

When you book your events at Cedar Lodge, you will have the added comfort of knowing that you are contributing to something that is important to others, while at the same time enjoying our fabulous cuisine, our top notch service and our enthusiastic hospitality.

… Providing a Spirit of Excellence …

One of those ways is a ‘food distribution program’ and another is in our desire to provide assistance to those suffering from codependency issues, drug, alcohol, relationship, family. The future looks bright for the operation of ‘group or transitional homes’ in order to facilitate ways to help set people free from the bondage of this fast spreading dilemma.

Although Cedar Lodge originally housed those in treatment, this is becoming less and less a viable option as word of the excellence of service at Cedar Lodge spreads. What began as a single venture has now so expanded that the increased demand for our services in the two separate areas, (hotel/convention and treatment) is pushing us to provide two separate entities, with cottage industries emerging out of the essence of the two. Treatment will in future begin to take the form of group homes off-site, in local communities and on farms within the rural municipality. Watch for upcoming ‘news’ as this transition unfolds.

Separating the two visions has finally become the right thing to do.

Our first farm located just a few kms from the Lodge itself houses anywhere from 2 to 4 men in transition. They do repairs on the house and outbuildings, care for the property, work at the Lodge from time to time and spend time with nature in a peaceful environment where reflection on one’s life purpose is better able to be accomplished than in an environment bounding with activity and surrounded by city noises.

Be on the lookout also for amazing changes as the hotel takes on more and more of a destination resort focus … as our hotel management team is purposed to continue to provide excellence in all that we do with a steady growth in additional services.

Cedar Lodge is unique in the fact that everyone who serves is a volunteer. The core group of volunteers simultaneously operate a treatment facility, house of refuge and hotel/convention center. Individuals seeking to be healed were able, as their own healing progressed, to be involved in the hotel industry around them. This in turn, for those who were willing, offers opportunity to create for themselves a resume that might include housekeeping, short order cook, hotel management, receptionist, clerk, hostess etc. Some of our successful candidates have gone on from here to acquire jobs in the hotel industry, one gal obtaining a housekeeping position at none other than the Chateau Lake Louise in Alberta, one of the world’s top ten hotels.

Cedar Lodge has been a model of innovation and creativity in its approach to treatment. Recognized is each person’s specific needs and issues which require special attention. Each individual’s treatment plan is relevant to them at the time of admission.

How do we know we have provided specialized care? Because those seeking help have travelled from as far west as Victoria and from as far east as Prince Edward Island.

How do we know we are providing service with excellence in the hotel industry? Because conventions have drawn national and international participants with representatives from more than 23 countries having visited Cedar Lodge to date. All this without advertising!

The future success of Cedar Lodge will continue to allow us to contribute to the community as a whole … a portion of the profits will be designated each month for that purpose.

When you book your events at Cedar Lodge, you will have the added comfort of knowing that you are contributing to something worthwhile

… that’s a win/win situation.

If you require more information about our revised addictions services… which are still in place – with a new format … please call us at 306-492-4999 or write to us via email at cedarlodgeorg@yahoo.ca.

We appreciate more than you could ever know your continued prayers, support and financial contributions.