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The mother of one of our wonderful graduates sent this message today: Hello,  I just finished looking over some blogs on the website..It brings tears to my eyes to see the stories becasue they hit me so close in the heart.  I felt some things on my heart that I just wanted to share.  It…

In a recent session I worked with a young man who was in denial about the sexual abuse of his sister. We talked about the language of accountability. He was heavily in denial and struggled to accept himself and give an honest account of his behavior to his parents. The following week, during a tour…

You could hear the anguish in her voice. “We want hope for our son,” the woman said. “We just feel so frustrated with everything we have tried before.” Her son is acting out sexually in a way that has ostracized him from his community and made his parents his jailers. Other programs, ones that promised…

“As clinicians, we work to provide our patients with the best possible therapy,” notes Dr. Triston Morgan. “But we also need to be sensitive to the most cost efficient delivery.”         Dr. Morgan serves as Admissions Director at Discovery Academy, Oxbow Academy’s sister program.            He and co-author D. Russell Crane of Brigham Young University were recently…

My email was practically smoking. As I read, I could feel the fury and frustration of the mother who wrote it. She had been watching an episode of a popular daytime TV talk show and was disgusted at the way they portrayed teens who struggle with pornography and other sexual dependencies.  Somebody needs to tell people what’s…

I’ve been sitting by the phone, waiting for Brita to call. Her mare is about to foal – or at least I think that’s the correct terminology. Anyway, a baby horse is expected any day now. I’m a city kid and I’ve never seen the birthing process – not one that involves a horse. But this…

A cold breeze and a skiff of snow on the ground couldn’t keep Oxbow students from their First Annual Paint the Ponies activity. What started as a Halloween event in 2008 continued this year as an opportunity for students to express their history and their hopes for the future. The equine director provided each student…