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 what it means differs for everyone. Try these tips to learn how to start loving yourself better if you are struggling to learn how to [...]
Try These 5 Tips to Start a Conversation About Rehab with a Loved One
Many people who struggle with alcohol or drugs have a difficult time getting better. There are many reasons for this, but mostly because loved ones may feel confused, frustrated, and at a loss as to how to help a loved one enter rehab. There are some suggestions to help start the conversation and get the ball rolling if you’re struggling [...]
Why Does Exercise Matter in Recovery?
People who abuse drugs or alcohol neglect important components of daily health. Their physical and emotional well-being takes a huge hit, particularly because the damage is so extensive with addiction. Exercise can be a great way of recovering, depending on the type of exercise and how it is used. How it Helps Exercise while in treatment serves many purposes. Some [...]
Mindfulness Eating to Achieve Control
There are two types of hunger that people with obesity face that lead to their weight problems: emotional eating in where they are eating their feelings and external eating where they eat based on the sight or smell of food around them. By practicing mindfulness eating, you will be able to lose weight, reduce binge eating, and be in more [...]
What is the Role of Posture in Shifting Mood?
When people think about managing mental health conditions, posture is not the first thing that comes to mind. More research is showing how a person holds their body impacts their mind and how they feel. A clear state of mind can affect posture, even if it is less obvious that posture can affect state of mind. It is a two-way [...]
How to Stop Attention Seeking
Histrionic Personality Disorder is when you are constantly seeking attention and have an emotional overreaction. You have a tendency to over-dramatize situations which can ruin relationships and lead to depression. You could be embarrassing your friends when you sob uncontrollably over minor incidents or have temper tantrums. You could also be wearing clothes that purposefully attract attention. Remember that you [...]
What is the Role of Family During Treatment?
When a loved one enters treatment for substance abuse, many questions can arise when it comes to recovery. Addiction is not a solo sport, so many others are ultimately impacted. Addiction literally affects everyone. While recovery is a personal journey, successful sobriety is not possible without the support of everyone around them. What Families Need Families are often worried about [...]
Codependency: Who Takes Care of You?
It is always nice to care for and help someone whenever they need a helping hand. There are some people who spend time only helping others instead of helping themselves called codependency. Codependency is sacrificing your own personal needs to meet the needs of other, causing you to feel passive, shameful, insecure, and have low self-worth. Those with codependency should [...]
How Do I Connect to the Present When I Feel Disconnected?
When a person is caught up in addiction, it is easy to lose connection to friends, family, and yourself. It is also easy to lose connection to the present, because it feels uncomfortable and difficult to battle against those cravings that pop up in recovery. Returning to self-destructive behaviors of the past is not a great option. The only way [...]
Eva Marie on Alcoholism
People struggling with addiction are ashamed to tell people. Especially if you are famous, you want to maintain a perfect image for fans to have of you. Former WWE wrestler Eva Marie decided to come clean recently about her alcoholism in hopes that others would be confident to share their story as well. Eva Marie was a WWE wrestler from [...]