How to Start and Maintain Healthy Habits
One of the most important steps in treatment for drug or alcohol addiction is to start developing healthy habits in all aspects of your life. Your addiction has most likely caused health problems, ranging from poor diet to serious issues like liver failure or heart problems from drug use. It wreaks havoc on your body, mind and spirit, and in [...]
How Do I Let Go of the Story of My Past When My Family and Friends are Still Angry?
When you’re in recovery following an addiction to drugs or alcohol, in order to move forward with your life in a honest, healthy way, you have to learn to let go of your past. All of your choices, behaviors, what you said and what you did, as truly terrible as some of those things may have been, they’re just that: [...]
Learning to Manage Stress at Work
Stress affects billions of people around the world, and our jobs are often the culprit. Stress related to work is one of the most common reasons people struggle with sleep, and it can have a major impact on both your home and work life. Whether it’s your to-do list, a boss that makes life miserable both on the clock and [...]
How Can I Let Go of the Story of My Past?
The past can haunt us. Mistakes, choices we wish we hadn’t made, our actions and the things we said are all examples of things from the past that can keep a person up at night. Even the most successful, most outwardly positive people have regrets in life, most likely, and depending on what exactly is in a person’s past, it [...]
Pets and Addiction – 4 Ways Addiction Affects our Furry Friends
Addiction is a disease that can leave an incredible amount of pain and destruction in its wake. Families are torn apart, friendships shattered, and marriages crumble. There’s no shortage of stories from former addicts about the chaos addiction brought to their lives, and how it impacted their friends, family and coworkers as much as it affected them in many cases. [...]
Can You Use Any Drug Casually?
There’s a constant debate about whether or not a person can use any drug casually. Whether it’s heroin, meth, marijuana or prescription drugs, some people insist that they can be a casual user of any kind of drug without suffering the effects of addiction or withdrawal. While this may be true in the case of marijuana and certain prescription drugs, [...]
Are all Opioid Users at Risk for Addiction?
Right now, one of the most serious health problems in the United States is skyrocketing rate of opioid addiction. Anything from prescription pain medication to pure heroin or Fentanyl on the streets is being consumed in alarming amounts across the nation. More people than ever are dying from drug overdose due to dealers starting to mix things like heroin and [...]
Addiction at the Top: Struggling as a CEO
As the CEO of a company, you’re supposed to have all the answers, or at least know the people with the answers. You’re the head honcho, the leader of the pack, and if you’re a good one, a lot of people look up to you. That’s a lot of pressure, on top of running a company, and when you’re battling [...]
Are You Anxious or Stressed?
We’ve all experienced stressed in one way or another, whether it’s issues with family or work, or having to make a big decision. The stress from situations like these can feel overwhelming and unending, which can make it difficult to actually figure out how much stress we’re feeling, and why. When we’re stressed out about something, it’s not uncommon for [...]
Why Rehab is Not a Vacation
Many treatment centers for addiction are in beautiful places and are filled with a list of amenties that could rival a resort. From tennis courts to great food to art therapy and yoga, it can be easy to see why some family members or friends can get it in their head that their loved one is simply off having a [...]