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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Mental Health, Sobriety, Understanding Addiction / 31.08.2022
Learn How to Thrive With a Co-occurring Disorder
Some people see being diagnosed with a mental health diagnosis on top of having a substance use disorder (SUD) as a disability, while others see it as a challenge. Certainly, from a clinical point of view, co-occurring disorders can make treatment more difficult to manage....
Mental Health, Mindfulness, Sobriety / 22.08.2022
How to Return to Work After Treatment for Addiction
Returning to work after any time off is difficult, but returning to work after treatment for addiction is an entirely different challenge. Your recovery is still a work in process, and you are likely still emotionally raw. You are still learning how to cope with...
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...
Prevention, Recovery, Sobriety / 30.05.2022
Useful Guide To Having a Very Sober Summer
Summer is nearly upon us, and with the least amount of COVID-19 restrictions in place that we have seen for over two years, being social and still being sober may be particularly challenging this year. Especially if this is your very first summer being sober,...
Mental Health, Recovery, Sobriety / 16.05.2022
Are You Feeling Alone In Your Recovery?
When you re-enter the real world after living in a sober living home or completing inpatient treatment, you'll no longer be constantly surrounded by your peers in recovery, which may cause you to feel lonely. Even if you are not physically alone, you might feel...