Emotions do not have to be our demise. Our emotions can be empowering parts of who we are in our lives of recovery. Here are four steps for taking a look at your emotions and becoming empowered by them.…
It takes a lot of hard work in therapy and treatment to confront toxic behaviors and reprogram the brain to act differently. Empathy and compassion are important for understanding others’ toxic behaviors, recognizing that you have been in a…
Learning to set goals and map out how to achieve them is an important life skill for long term recovery. Those in recovery are commonly challenged in their ability to set and achieve goals. These are three common reasons…
In the early stages of recovery, life can be overwhelming. Talking about feelings, going to meetings, focusing on spiritual development, can become too much. “Recovery burnout” is a real experience many in recovery have which leads them to become…
Spending extended amounts of treatment is advised for the best success in recovery. Graduating through levels of care and living in sober living helps clients develop the life skills they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives in sobriety…
Here’s the great news: there’s only two things you can’t do when you’re in recovery: drink and use. Everything else is up for grabs. Going to treatment in the summer can seem like it’s the end of the world.…
Though fentanyl may be new to many people due to the sudden coverage of it in the nightly news, fentanyl is not new to many chronic pain patients. Morphine based medications like most prescription opioid painkillers, don’t work for…
Loving an addict or an alcoholic through their active addiction into recovery is a challenge for any friend or family member. Here are three vital truths anyone who loves an addict or alcoholic needs to know. Nothing you…
Choosing the right treatment program doesn’t have to be a challenging process. The more information you have about what it takes to treat someone struggling with a drug and alcohol addiction, the more power you have in making the…
Freelapse isn’t in the dictionary. Relapse, on the other hand, is. A relapse, by dictionary definition, specifically relates to someone suffering from a disease. To relapse means to “suffer deterioration after a period of improvement. As a noun, rather than…
