One of the most common ways some recovering addicts cope with cravings for drug or alcohol is to eat something, whether just a snack or a full meal, to distract themselves. While this in itself [...]
You did something dumb once. Maybe more than once. Maybe you’ve done more dumb things than you can count. It could be something big and dumb, or small and dumb. Dumb is dumb, and when [...]
Addiction is a serious, potentially devastating disease that can have serious ramifications in your life in many different ways. People are affected by addiction in different ways, and over time as we’ve learned more about [...]
When you take care of yourself, you feel at your best. This means taking care of your body, taking care of your mind and taking care of what makes you you. The better you feel, [...]
When we struggle with addiction, we often lie outright to the people around us. Whether it’s occasionally, daily or if every word out of our mouth is untrue, it has a massive ripple effect through [...]
Stress has a big impact on your life when you have it. Anything from headaches to nausea, even social withdrawal and outbursts of intense anger. For people struggling with addiction, whether recently or years past, [...]
One of the biggest epidemics in the country currently is the crisis involving prescription drug addiction, specifically opioids. In the United States alone, more than 15 million people currently abuse or are addicted to a [...]
When someone struggles with drug or alcohol addiction for any period of time, they may feel like life sober is simply too hard. They feel they may never find their purpose or a meaning for [...]
There are four generally known styles of parenting most of us were raised with. The authoritarian style of parenting is best summed up as the parent’s way or the highway. There’s no room for endless [...]
One of the most important things when it comes to addiction treatment is learning to recognize, avoid or overcome triggers that might put you at risk for relapse. A trigger is any situation, person, thing [...]
