Can You Get Cancer From Alcoholism?
We know that alcoholism can cause many negative health problems that can sometimes be irreversible. Did you know that you can get cancer from drinking too much alcohol? According to the American Journal of Public Health, 3.5% of all cancer deaths in the United States were alcohol-related. To prevent the risk of getting cancer, it is important to seek treatment [...]
What Can I Learn From My Parents?
Addiction can drive a wedge between ourselves and our parents. Recovery helps us to heal our relationship with our parents as we learn how to learn from them and allow them to parent us. Not everyone who comes to recovery comes to recovery with parents who are supportive. Many have lost their parents, have been abandoned, or have abandoned their [...]
The Best Way to Improve Your Manners
When working in an office with professionals, it is important to behave different with them compared to how you are around your friends and family. Your managers and your employees need to take you seriously and your behavior can reflect on your performance. By being polite, answering the phone and eating right, you will be able to impress your employees. [...]
How Can Nutrition Affect Academic Performance?
It is true that eating breakfast is the most important meal of the day because you should always start your day off with energy. Food will make an impact on your day physically, socially, and mentally. By eating enough food and nutrients, you will have the energy to pay attention in your classes and focus on the task given to [...]
WearIt Device to Help Those in Recovery
We have devices like FitBit that can track your steps, detect your heart rate, count your calories, and making sure you are healthy everywhere you go. This summer will be the launch of a device similar to that one but made specifically to stop the cravings of addiction preventing your recovery and leading to a relapse. Penn State researchers created [...]
How Can Yoga Help Your Brain?
We already know yoga is good for cardiovascular health, flexibility, and improved muscle tone. What you may not know is that yoga can improve help you breathe slowly which can allow you to destress and send negative thoughts away, helping you control your anger. Corpse Pose In corpse pose, your mind and body will be calm, you will be able [...]
Sexual Assault Survivor Uses the Power of Yoga to Heal
Sexual assault can be hard for the person who experienced it to put into words. According to RAINN, every 98 seconds, someone is getting sexually assault which totals to 321,500 a year. One college student used yoga as a way to heal from the trauma she endured from her sexual assault and used her yoga therapy to help others. Zabie [...]
What Are Healthy Ways to Build Confidence?
If you continue to think little of yourself, the chances are that you need to build your confidence as confidence will improve your chances of success greatly. Instead of using drugs or alcohol to build your confidence, you should think of all of your best qualities that you can use to achieve true success. Once you try and success with [...]
How President Trump Intends to Tackle the Opioid Crisis
In 2016, The CDC said that 42,000 people were killed by prescription opioids, fentanyl, and heroin which is more than any year. On October 26, 2017, President Trump declared the opioid crisis as a public health emergency. President Trump has come up with plans at the last Opioid Summit to bring further educational awareness to opioids and expanding treatment options. [...]
What Do Alcoholics Die Of?
Alcoholism can be devastating not just for the one suffering from addiction but for the friends and family of that person too. According to The Journal of the American Medical Association, 88,000 people in the United States die from alcohol-related deaths. This is all the more reason why it is important to go into treatment as soon as possible so [...]