Whether you are new to recovery or have been in recovery for a long time, cravings can hit, and hit hard. When you are caught off guard by an intense craving or one that lasts longer than usual, you need to have relapse prevention techniques...
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Addiction Recovery, Recovery, Sobriety / 15.08.2022
Exploring the World of Sobriety
The word sobriety has a stigma of being dull or boring. Perhaps it conjures up images of sitting around alone or limiting your social life to seeing movies or going to church socials. Maybe the idea of sobriety makes you long for all of the...
Addiction Recovery, Recovery, Sober Living, Sobriety / 01.08.2022
Is There Life After Residential Treatment?
There is often so much focus on the first 30 days of treatment for addiction that not much thought is put into what happens afterward. You go from active addiction to residential treatment that is completely restrictive, but then what? Are you just expected to...
Addiction Recovery, Prevention, Sobriety / 18.07.2022
A Guide To Overcome the Fear of Success in Recovery
Fear of failure can keep you from achieving your goals, but fear of success can actually threaten your long-term recovery. Why are some people afraid to succeed? What does a successful recovery look like, and why is that so frightening for some people? What fears...
Addiction Recovery, Mental Health, Prevention, Sobriety / 11.07.2022
How To Keep Your Head in the Game?
In sports, sometimes scoring a point or two or winning a single game is enough to establish your spot on the team. In recovery, though, you need to earn your place again every single day by establishing and keeping your daily routines. Recovery is like...
The behaviors associated with addiction often lead to guilt, shame, and regret. You may even have shame surrounding your addiction itself. Simply becoming sober does not make the guilt, shame, and regret disappear. You will need to learn to forgive yourself to heal from that...
Addiction Recovery, Mental Health / 20.06.2022
Trauma That Exceeds Generations
Most trauma is witnessed by or directly experienced by the individual, but there is a type of trauma that is so far-reaching it can impact generations. Historical trauma is trauma that is experienced by multiple generations based on various forms of oppression, including forced migration,...
Addiction Recovery, Sober Living, Treatment / 15.06.2022
A Framework for Choosing a Treatment Program
Building a recovery that is right for you means choosing the right materials and building the framework of continuing care that best suits your needs. Those needs may fluctuate and change as you begin the process and may also be dictated by what your insurance...
Addiction Recovery, Recovery, Sobriety / 20.04.2022
Recovery Without Judgment
A first impression should never be your last impression. It's natural to pass judgment on anything at first glance, but it's important not to place value in these initial judgments. You won't know what different activities, communities, or people have to offer until you make...
Addiction Recovery, Monitoring, Recovery, Sobriety / 02.02.2022
What Are The Perks of Alumni Participation?
Your recovery is a continuous journey that you will be on for the rest of your life. As an alumnus of a treatment facility, staying connected and getting involved with the current events of that treatment facility will help you stay on a positive track. Many...