How to Use Creative Writing to Beat Addiction
Writing is highly personal and writers get to choose to share or not share work. Lots of exercises can be structured about recovery but don’t have to be. Sometimes it is helpful to write about [...]
Why Spirituality Can Help Recovery: Some Tips to Consider
Spirituality and recovery is often a hot topic in recovery circles because everyone approaches it from a different, very personal, angle. Experience, much like recovery and spirituality, all denote things depending on how a person [...]
Narrative Therapy May Be a Great Tool in Recovery
A narrative is a story that makes up a collection of events. Every person has a story. Some people have positive, uplifting, humorous stories. Others have greatly difficult, traumatic, and even scary experiences that overshadow [...]
Give Crystal Healing a Try in Recovery: Here’s How
Crystal healing is just one remedy people turn to in recovery in support of their journey. Even if a person does not understand how it works, crystals have been used for healing in many ways [...]
What Are the Benefits and Risks of Ibogaine?
Ibogaine is a psychoactive alkaloid illegally used in the United States for treating opiate addiction. Healthcare providers and researchers are desperate to find solutions to the opioid crisis but may be overlooking a possible cure [...]
Holistic Tips for Staying Sober Through the Holidays
Stress is elevated during the holidays for everyone, no matter what your struggles are at that moment. Sobriety is no different, except it kind of is different for you. Cravings, triggers, and everything else that [...]
Can Telemedicine Transform Addiction Treatment?
The lack of healthcare access for people who are low-income or in areas where access is less available presents significant health challenges. Not everyone can get to a treatment center and it presents challenges to [...]
There Are Myriad Benefits to Sharing Your Story: Here’s Just a Few
Storytelling has been around a long time. It is a way people can connect with one another, by learning from one another’s stories, including the trials and tribulations of being human. The storytelling movement is [...]
Sobriety is Fun (Really) if You Want it to Be
One of the roadblocks to early sobriety is learning how to have fun, in a new way. For a long time it may be hard to figure out having fun when you’re under addiction and [...]
Self Love Takes Time: Try These 3 Tips to Get Started
It is not uncommon for people who struggle with addiction to lose their self-esteem and sense of self to addiction. It is easy to tell other people to love themselves through addiction and recovery but [...]