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, [...]
Why Cravings Don’t Mean Failure
When someone who’s in recovery from addiction feels a craving coming on, triggered by something in their environment or something they feel, realizing that they’re craving using drugs or alcohol again can be devastating, especially [...]
Learning to Cope with Cravings
Cravings are something a large majority of addicts will have to deal with, sometimes even decades after they get clean. Cravings are strong, almost overwhelming urges to use drugs or alcohol again, and at times, [...]
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 [...]
What to do When you Want to Give up on Yourself
When you’re battling addiction, chances are there will be or has been a time when you’ve hit rock bottom. Rock bottom is the lowest place you can possibly find yourself, and it’s usually different for [...]
The Truth About Forgiveness After Addiction
Our family, friends and coworkers often suffer when we battle addiction. They see it’s effects on us every day, and they feel our hurtful words, see the actions we often later regret. Forgiveness isn’t just [...]