How do you Forgive yourself for your Past Choices?
Every person has things in their past they wish they could hide, forget or change. When we struggle with addiction, we often make some extremely regretful choices, whether it’s about our health, finances or relationship. In sobriety, these choices can haunt us to no seeming end, keeping us awake and constantly replaying our mistakes and past choices in our mind [...]
How to Find your Peace
When addiction has you in its vice-like grip, it’s not uncommon for people to do some pretty unspeakable things, in pursuit of or fueled by their substance addiction. People suffering from addiction to drugs or alcohol can find themselves in a downward spiral in many ways, including doing things they never imagined they would do. For some, this is stealing, [...]
How to Break the Lying Habit
Lying is an incredibly hard habit to break once you’ve developed it. You could have absolutely no reason to lie to someone, and you commonly find yourself twisting stories or flat out lying, about anything or everything. Even people who may live an otherwise good, wholesome life can find themselves struggling with dishonesty, and it’s a slippery slope when you [...]
Gratitude Every Day is Important: Here’s Why
When we’re caught in a cycle of constantly focusing on what’s going wrong, or what isn’t going the way we want, it’s incredibly easy to miss the things that usually mean the most. Things may not be going right. You may be having a terrible day. Even on the very worst of days, there are things in life that aren’t [...]
How Long does it Take to get Addicted to Crack?
Crack is a crystallized form a cocaine, an extremely powerful stimulant drug that swept through the United States in the 1970s and 80s. The powdery cocaine is mixed with baking soda and compacted into a hard crystal, which is then smoked in a pipe. The high it brings is faster and more intense than the effects of cocaine by itself, [...]
Four Ways to Start Rebuilding Trust After Addiction
People who struggle with addiction commonly struggle with lying, due to the way that drugs and alcohol alter brain chemistry. In an effort to protect their ability to use at all costs, the result of an altered midbrain and reward system, lying becomes a strategy of survival. Unfortunately, lying fractures relationships with friends and family, in some cases irreparably. After [...]
How does Exercise Benefit your Recovery?
Drug and alcohol abuse wreaks havoc on a person’s physical and mental well being. One of the most important steps in a healthy treatment program is to work to undo some of that damage, if possible, through good nutrition and exercise habits. These habits that you can develop in treatment can help you maintain your recovery a little easier once [...]
Coping with Cravings
Cravings to return to using drugs or alcohol are one of the most common reasons people relapse in recovery from addiction. No matter how long someone has been clean and sober, triggers can pop up in unexpected places and lead to powerful cravings. When you’re in the midst of a heavy craving, it can be overwhelming and feel hopeless. The [...]
Do Treatment Centers Offer Outdoor Activities?
Addiction treatment centers have become more and more focused on whole body wellness, not just the basic treatment of addiction. The better you feel overall, and the better prepared you are with the right tools and healthy habits, the more ready you’ll be to achieve and maintain your sobriety. One of the tools many treatment centers are starting to use [...]
Communication Skills you Need for Recovery
Getting clean and sober after battling addiction can be a second chance, if you take it seriously. In order for recovery to be a success, it’s best to treat it as a fresh start to life. Your old way of living life, of thinking and even communicating must be shifted and reevaluated to promote a more honest, healthier life, with [...]