The Effects of Poor Family Communication
Communication is key component in a successful working family. You communicate with members of the family not just with your words but using language and behavior. If you use negative methods to communicate or avoid communicating at all, this can make matters worse through adulthood and even affect who we become as adults. Poor family communication can include yelling, holding [...]
Journaling Can Help Your Recovery if You Try This
Journaling, or keeping a regular record of feelings and experiences for recovery can be a helpful tool to advance the healing process. A journal can be used to record recovery-related struggles and accomplishments. Journaling is a type of expressive writing without an end goal in mind, just to gain some clarity and freedom of thought on paper. Types of Journaling [...]
Emotional Numbness
Some medical conditions or medications can cause you to feel emotional numbness. This is when you feel a sense of isolation or an emotional disconnect from everything. You feel like you have no future and no hope for the numbness to go away. Emotions are a very important component in all people and should be treated right away before you [...]
Try These Tips for Using Aromatherapy in Addiction Recovery
One of the biggest battles waging in a person’s mind, body, and soul in early recovery is trying to get past those cravings and triggers. Cravings are part of having addiction, with both psychological and physical roots. Regardless of where they come from, they are bothersome and stressful. Some aromatherapy can put them at bay and support the healing process. [...]
Alcoholism’s Effect on Families
Someone with alcohol addiction may think that it is no one’s business how much alcohol they consume for a certain amount of time. Even though alcoholism is happening to one person, it affects the entire family. Family members need to be encouraged to go to treatment so they can take care of their health as well as prevent themselves from [...]
Transformation and Healing Takes Time: Here’s How to Get Started
Even for people who have anxiety and fear, growing into the person you want to become is possible with a little bit of time, patience, and transformative healing power. Honoring feelings rather than stuffing them down (or numbing out) must be part of the healing journey. Going through old skeletons in the closet is a choice you have to make [...]
Smart Ways to Use Your Smartphone for Recovery
For those who are struggling with their recovery, smartphones are mobile devices that you can bring with you anywhere and can help you whenever you need it. Smartphone apps can help recovering addicts be able to track their progress and get as much support as possible wherever you go. Recovery smartphone apps are a great place to go to for [...]
How Heavy Drinking Changes the Brain
People who struggle with alcoholism demonstrate changes in the brain’s ability called ‘executive function.’ This part of the brain controls memory, reasoning, and problem solving. Learn more about how drinking too much over time, and heavily, can permanently change how the brain functions. Heavy Drinking When a person drinks heavily, the alcohol consumption levels threaten a person’s ability to safely [...]
How Gratitude Combats Depression
When you have depression, you only tend to focus on the negative aspects of life that you overlook the good that come. By being aware of all of the good things, places, and people, you will start to appreciate your life so much more. Spend everyday showing gratitude for what you have in order to help fight off depression. By [...]
Tips for Staying Zen When Life is Anything But
Finding ways to stay in a peace of calm and tranquility can be challenging when life is throwing things your way left and right. Life is a series of ups and downs. There are no guarantees and, quite often, we feel entitled to the ‘easier path,’ rather than learning how to lean into the harder times by changing our mindset [...]