by Keenen Diamond | May 14, 2019 | Health and Wellness, Q&A
When you work out, your body gets tight in the muscles. As you warm-up and cool down, it is important to stretch those muscles and work out lactic acid build-up. The key to doing this is by foam rolling. It is also called myofascial release because you are releasing...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Keenen Diamond | Dec 21, 2018 | Addiction News, Addiction Treatment, Alcoholism, Drug Abuse, Life in Recovery, Opioid Addiction, Q&A, Recovery, Relapse and Recovery, Sobriety
Addiction in and of itself is a sick, debilitating, invasive disease that affects all manner of people. It has no definitive characteristics, nor does it have a particular type of individual that it seems to prefer. The truth of the matter is that it is one of the...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Keenen Diamond | Dec 2, 2018 | Alternative Therapy, Recovery
People are raised to believe that words have little power. As children, the nursery rhyme “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me” is echoed over and over again. Truthfully, however, this couldn’t be further from the truth. Words can play...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Keenen Diamond | Dec 1, 2018 | Addiction Treatment, Relapse and Recovery
In the early stages of any recovery process, it can be comforting to believe that you are not in control of your own life, and that the only thing that you can control is the very next decision you have to make. This allows you to break things down into manageable...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Keenen Diamond | Dec 1, 2018 | Q&A, Recovery
One of the most effective ways to champion your own recovery efforts is to become an advocate for the addiction recovery process. While this is no way means you have to shout the intimate details of your entire recovery journey from the rooftops, it is important to...