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Life Skills Can Help You Avoid Relapse
Addiction recovery is a long and arduous process. Even after an individual has graduated from a treatment program and has begun their newfound sober life outside of a facility, there can still be an o…
Reconnecting With Your Family During Recovery
Family plays an important role throughout one's recovery, and the lingering effects of addiction on one's family can be felt long after one's initial treatment program has concluded. Navigating the ra…
Steps to Releasing Stress
Stressis a ubiquitous experience, and managing its effects is crucial for maintaining a healthy daily life. However, avoiding stress altogether is an impossible task, and expecting some degree of stre…
Is meditation helpful in getting off recreational drugs?
Recreational drugs can be a hard habit to break, but there are tools that can help with the transition. We reached out to our readers to find out how they think meditation can play a role in getting o…
Resilience Requires Facing Reality
Hiding from the world takes effort; hiding also ruins our lives. When we hide from our reality, we often find ourselves engaging in behaviors that destroy our resilience and our ability to avoid relap…
Being Vulnerable Is Not Being Weak
Most people tend to avoid being seen as weak. As a result, we may avoid asking for help. As a society, we have an ingrained misconception of weakness. Vulnerability is not weakness. When you are vulne…
How to Thrive in Stressful Times
Stress attacks us all, no matter the time of year. While stress and trauma do not seem helpful, these two forces in our lives are not in opposition to recovery. You can live a full life despite stress…
Being Relentless in Pursuit of Recovery
We have the decision to pursue recovery; we can either stay in our mode of self-destruction or fight to recover from addiction to alcohol and/or other substances. Seeking recovery requires fighting ev…
Why Setting Goals Works Better than Making (and Breaking) Resolutions
It's that time of year again – the moment we look at ourselves in the mirror and say, "I'm going to accomplish all of my New Year's resolutions." And, just like every year before this one, by mid-Janu…
Humility Means Walking in Love
So many of us believe in the power of self-loathing. We believe in not liking ourselves. This self-deprecation is defined as humility in our minds. The less we believe in ourselves, the more humble we…
The Problem With Perfectionism
According to Malcolm Gladwell's research, expertise takes 10,000 hours to learn. He explains this theory in his book: Outliers: The Story of Success. An important focus relative to this finding is Mal…
Reframing Struggles Into Challenges
Isaac Lidsky started going blind at age 12. He believed he would live a sad and lonely life. Only when he chose to focus on his blindness not as a disability, but as something to be overcome, did he s…
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