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 [...]
How to Help a Family Member with Mental Health
Anyone can have a mental health diagnosis- including your close relatives. Your relative should feel relieved that there is an explanation for their behaviors and that there is treatment. Now that your relative has been diagnosed, it is important not to distance yourself from them as this is the time that they will need you the most to help them [...]
What Buddhists Know About Transforming Anger Into Clarity Can Help Recovery
It seems so many people are angry about something nowadays. Anger brings powerless, brings anxiety, fear, and many other negative emotions. There is not much healthy that comes out of anger. It brews inside a person, begging to be expressed physically. Learning to harness the power of anger into clarity can be transformational for addiction recovery, with help from Buddhism. [...]
Creating Healthy Relationships
Before you entered into treatment, maybe your old friends were enabling or supporting your substance abuse instead of encouraging you to get help. Maybe they treated you badly but you still hung out with them because you could not distinguish what friendly and unfriendly behaviors were. When you reach sobriety and you decide to hang around with people who are [...]
These 3 Types of Addictions Are Socially “Accepted” and Dangerous
Some drugs are known to be socially accepted because people think they are not ‘really’ addictions. The challenge of changing perceptions is to notice how it impacts social relationships and a person’s life, including mental and physical health. Find out what some of the more socially ‘accepted’ addictions are and how to combat against them. Wine is Alcohol A misconception [...]
Five Kinds of Boredom
Boredom is when you have nothing to do and you do not know what to do with yourself. There are pleasant types of boredom and unpleasant times where you could stress yourself out from the tediousness of your day. Here are five different types of boredom that many people experience. One type is indifferent boredom where you feel relaxed and [...]