How Do I Focus on The Good in Life?
Life can be a bear at times. A really big, really mean and really ugly one that just seems to be determined to eat you alive and then some. It can be truly awful, scary and heartbreaking in any number of ways for any number of reasons, and when you’re going through a period in your life where it just [...]
How to Deal With the Winter Blues
Winter has a reputation for bringing out the grouchiest and meanest sides of people. With the days growing shorter and short and the winds colder and colder, it’s not uncommon for people to feel a little down and out of sorts during the winter months. SAD, or seasonal affective disorder, affects millions of people across the globe. While it may [...]
Why Doesn’t Everyone Relapse?
No two people battle addiction the same way. Even if they struggle with a dependence on the same substance at the same age, those two people are different, so the way they experience things in life are just as unique as they are. While a large majority of people who have struggled with addiction in the past relapse at some [...]
What to do When Family Holds Grudges
Our family, while they normally support us and love us unconditionally, can be as equally toxic as any negative friend or former friend. When a person struggles with drug and alcohol addiction, it’s unfortunately very common for the person to lie to and or steal from the people closest to them in order to help fund their addiction. In many [...]
Why is Yoga Beneficial to People in Recovery?
Yoga is one of the most widespread fitness revolutions on the planet. It’s grown from being practiced mainly in India to becoming a global phenomenon, with people turning to it for everything from weight loss to help with increasing focus to simply becoming more flexible or striving to find inner peace. The people who practice it constantly sing its praises, [...]
How to Stay Positive When You’re Newly Sober
The first few days when you leave treatment for addiction to drugs or alcohol can be an incredibly uplifting experience, but many people find that those days fade into weeks or even months of anxiety, depression and any number of other negative emotions that leave a person just feeling defeated. When we’re feeling crummy about ourselves, it’s hard to view [...]
How Can I Stop Being Overly Self-Critical?
It’s extremely common for human beings to go from being their own biggest fan to being their biggest critic who focuses on their every flaw. While it’s one thing to be able to acknowledge your own shortcomings headon, it’s another thing entirely to be constantly criticizing yourself. It’s one of the most damaging things you can do to yourself mentally, [...]
Recovery is a Marathon: Don’t Forget to Breathe
As effective as treatment for drug or alcohol addiction has become in more recent years, there is still no absolute cure for addiction. A large portion of people who struggle with addiction will relapse, some more than once, and even the ones who don’t relapse find they experience strong cravings, sometimes decades after achieving sobriety. When we first leave treatment, [...]
How Do You Give Yourself a Break?
When we do something wrong or make poor choices, usually one of the loudest voices telling us this is our own. It’s a good thing, to be able to remind yourself that you could make better choices, but when this morphs into constantly berating yourself or tearing yourself down, it can be extremely unhealthy. Even if you’ve never struggled with [...]
Why you Should Add Fitness to Your Routine in Recovery
When you’re in treatment for addiction to drugs or alcohol, you’re probably going to hear a lot about the importance of developing good habits and staying healthy. One thing that is commonly suggested is that a person in recovery adds some sort of fitness to their daily or weekly routine. Exercise, whether it’s going for a brisk walk around the [...]