These 4 Pillars of Wellness May Help You Feel Better
The best way to get healthy is to focus on overall wellness. It can be difficult to try and focus on doing everything all at once, so breaking it down into 4 main pillars can be helpful. With a better focus on these areas, a person can get a handle on how to tackle just a few things within each [...]
What’s the Difference Between Benzodiazepines and Barbiturates?
Knowing the difference between benzodiazepines and barbiturates is important in understanding how it affects the body and mind, while also understanding how to seek treatment for misuse. Learn more about how these prescription drugs can affect you and how to get help if dependence or addiction happen. Barbiturates A barbiturate is a central nervous system depressant (CNS) used for anything [...]
Why Farming May Offer Healing in Recovery
Farming is not something people think about as being healing. The truth is, gardening, harvesting, and working the land is an ancient practice that can be very rewarding and teach people lots about how to handle seasons of waiting, seasons of loss, and even seasons of working towards a long-range goal. Learn more about farming and how it may help [...]
How Do I Handle Anxiety Without Relapsing?
People who are sober struggle with anxiety all the time, even if they do not use alcohol to cope. For those who are sober after addiction to alcohol, there are some key things to keep in mind to support a long-lasting recovery while coping with the effects of anxiety. How to Cope The struggle between how to cope with daily [...]
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 one way people share their genuine, authentic selves, which can have a great impact on people who are struggling with addiction and recovery. Find out [...]
What Can I Eat to Help My Liver in Recovery?
A healthy, functioning liver can lead to better overall health but also mentally helps your brain. The liver flushes out toxins in the bloodstream and protects the immune system from infection. Excessive alcohol drinking may drown out nutrients in the diet and interfere with the body’s digestion and flushing out processes. This can create toxin and fat build-up as well [...]
Wanna Be a Good Friend? Try These 5 Things
Being a good friend is not just a skill a person has, it can be developed. Being a friend who is not very good can make a person not very fun to be around and, in fact, even toxic. Many people don’t ask what it means to be a good friend. In sobriety, it is a great question to ask [...]
How Do I Meditate at Work to Relieve Stress?
A stressed employee is not going to be very productive at work. It is difficult to find time to meditate in a stressful environment, but it is one way employers are seeking to help boost productivity while giving employees a time to reset their minds during the day and offer a respite from a crazy schedule at work. Breathwork It [...]
What a Health Coach Can Teach You About Living Better (and Staying Sober)
Health coaches may get a bad rap right now because it seems they are a dime a dozen. There is a difference between a health coach who just hangs a shingle out there and one who can actually give you the tools you need to live a better life. It doesn’t matter how you met, but finding that health coach [...]
Is Coffee Really That Bad When I’m Sober?
Going online anyone can find information about the dangers of drinking too much coffee. There are dangers to excessive coffee drinking in recovery, as well. This includes the impact of caffeine on the brain and body and how coffee can change a person’s mood. Coffee and Recovery Coffee has been around a long time. Coffee can have great benefits including [...]