Napping can be an essential tool for early recovery and all recovery ongoing. Naps don’t replace sleep. If you get a poor night’s sleep, a nap will help you feel well rested, but doesn’t make up for the night before. A good nap is like an energy reboot. As you continue recovering from drug…
DetailsLove and logic parenting is a way to set healthy boundaries with your loved one and provide all the love, empathy, and compassion they need, while not enabling maladaptive behaviors. Love and logic focuses on maintaining accountability and letting a child learn how to be responsible for themselves, while continuing to love and support…
DetailsTreatment is a time to learn, grow, and heal. Here are the five most important ways to make the most out of treatment so you can live a happy and healthy life in recovery. Take every opportunity to ask questions: Now is not the time to have any shame or humiliation about asking a “dumb”…
DetailsRecovery is a lifestyle decision as well as it is a necessary choice to make in your life. Outside of therapy and treatment, these are three ways to support your recovery on a daily basis. Sleep You’re going to want to get a lot of sleep in your first year of recovery. Sleep is…
DetailsWe tend to think of our bodies and our minds as separate. When we turn to drugs and alcohol to cope with the high levels of stress from running our businesses, we don’t think of the relationship between the two. Putting drugs and alcohol into our bodies takes the edge off of our mind,…
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Addiction treatment has made many strides over the last decades. Many evidence-based treatment options have proven to be effective in helping people overcome addiction. Cognitive-behavioral therapy was discovered in the 1960s as a way for doctors to help patients change their ways of thinking. During the session, doctors would help turn negative thoughts and behaviors…
DetailsOne step forward, two steps back. When you’re an addict or an alcoholic in recovery, you get tired of being knocked down. Any step which seems like a step backward feels like a threat to going too far backward toward relapse. Building resilience in recovery is the way we learn how to handle all…
DetailsA new study from a major insurance provider has revealed that opioid addiction is still on the rise and that, sadly, many who are struggling with opioid addiction are not getting the care that they need. Blue Cross Blue Shield released data analyzing the number of diagnoses for “opioid use disorder” between 2010 to…
DetailsDrugs go through phases of “popularity” or high occurrences of abuse and addiction. Drug addiction has been a problem for centuries. Alcoholism has existed as long as there has been alcohol. However, drugs go through phases of being well known and widely used to falling on the back burner. For example, marijuana was the rebellious…
DetailsThe dictionary definition of compassion includes mention of sympathy. To have sympathy means having sorrow for someone’s misfortune. Compassion is the way that humans connect through their suffering. Everyone suffers a misfortune at least once in their life. Everyone can and likely will have sorrow at some point in their life. Instead of being separated…
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