How to Deal With the Winter Blues
Winter has a reputation for bringing out the grouchiest and meanest sides of people. With the days growing shorter and short and the winds colder and colder, it’s not uncommon for people to feel a [...]
What to do When Family Holds Grudges
Our family, while they normally support us and love us unconditionally, can be as equally toxic as any negative friend or former friend. When a person struggles with drug and alcohol addiction, it’s unfortunately very [...]
How to Stay Positive When You’re Newly Sober
The first few days when you leave treatment for addiction to drugs or alcohol can be an incredibly uplifting experience, but many people find that those days fade into weeks or even months of anxiety, [...]
Recovery is a Marathon: Don’t Forget to Breathe
As effective as treatment for drug or alcohol addiction has become in more recent years, there is still no absolute cure for addiction. A large portion of people who struggle with addiction will relapse, some [...]
Why you Should Add Fitness to Your Routine in Recovery
When you’re in treatment for addiction to drugs or alcohol, you’re probably going to hear a lot about the importance of developing good habits and staying healthy. One thing that is commonly suggested is that [...]
Six Tips for Being Kind to Yourself
Many people find that they are their own worst critic, and while being mindful of your flaws or your mistakes is important, we tend to come down on ourselves extremely hard, more than we would [...]
How to Let go of the Past When Family Won’t
Addiction’s impact extends far beyond the immediate impacts to your life and health. Even though you’re the one who’s struggling with alcoholism, or an addiction to drugs, the people around you are heavily affected by [...]
Seven Ways to Show Yourself Some Love
February is the month of love, with Valentine’s Day on the 14th, and while we’re constantly searching for new ways to take care of the people we love and to show them how we feel, [...]
Why a Good Outlook Matters so Much
You are what you eat. You reap what you sow. What you give is what you get. Chances are, you’ve probably heard one of these phrases used before to explain that the attitude with which [...]
Why You Need to Push Through the Bad Days
Whether you left an addiction treatment program a week ago or a decade ago, chances are by now you’ve experienced both the good days, where it feels like your life may be slowly coming back [...]