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 [...]
How Do I Keep My Balance in Recovery?
It is hard to maintain balance in today’s society. There are so many things pulling our attention every which direction. It may be fun to try so many different things, but in recovery, your attention, time, and energy need to be focused on sobriety. Now that you are sober, your life seems to hang in the balance with every decision [...]
Why You Should Try Lying on the Floor to Help Your Sobriety
One of the poses that people do at the end of a yoga class is called Savasana. The act of lying on the floor can be so simple, yet powerful, as it demands a person lie there and do nothing, with nowhere to go for the moment. It seems everyday, people are running, running, running, going after a sense of [...]
What is the Definition of “Recovery”?
Recovery can mean so many different things to different people, but really recovery is about being in a situation where they feel supported and held up while in recovery. Shame and blame have no place in recovery programs or groups of people who are supposed to help a person work through the challenges of staying sober. Getting the right mindset [...]
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 not thinking straight. You might think fun is about being drunk or smoking with friends, but in sobriety it is a learning curve to find [...]
How Do I Handle a Relapse?
Relapse is not something that happens to everyone, but it can happen to anyone in recovery. Nobody is immune to it. If you find yourself in the pitfalls of a relapse, it is a requirement to seek help because you cannot fight it alone. THe most important thing that happens after relapse is how you respond. Relapse is Not Failure [...]