**Audio of Service**
Our personalities are composed of our upbringing, culture, religious/spiritual beliefs, likes, dislikes, education, and experiences in addiction and recovery. The spiritual principles do not change. Humility is necessary to learn; faith is necessary to move forward and let go of control; integrity is necessary to maintain our values. When we integrate these spiritual principles into our personalities they become part of our character. When we can integrate and internalize spiritual principles into our very being we find that we are living according to a Higher Plan. Spiritual principles are the foundation upon which we can actually build something special and lasting in our lives. These spiritual principles help us to form community and stick with that community despite personalities.
Cinde Stewart Freeman, RN, MAC, LADAC II
CHIEF CLINICAL OFFICER
Cinde Stewart Freeman is Cumberland Heights’ Chief Clinical Officer and has been with Cumberland Heights for 30 years. During her tenure, Cinde has served in nursing, clinical management, and administrative roles.
Cinde is a bachelor’s prepared Registered Nurse and a master’s prepared Licensed Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor, Level II. She holds NAADAC’s Master Addiction Counselor (MAC) credential and is a Qualified Clinical Supervisor (QCS) as well.
Cinde has a love for the places where opposites touch. This has led her to clinical explorations of somatic and spiritual healing of the things that wound us, as well as explorations of how the lived wisdom of the 12-step tradition informs and brings color to clinical education and experience. It also leads her to the beach as much as possible!
Cinde regularly trains on topics ranging from 12-step based Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Spiritual Care principles to ethical practice and clinical supervision. Her core belief is that love is more powerful than the wounds we have experienced, and, in fact, can cause us to become our strongest at those places.