by Keenen Diamond | Feb 10, 2023 | Addiction Treatment, Recovery, Therapy, Treatment
12-Step recovery programs focus on taking a newcomer through a series of steps so they can experience a spiritual awakening and develop a relationship with a higher power of their own understanding as a means of achieving and maintaining sobriety. The 12-Step recovery...
by Keenen Diamond | Feb 9, 2023 | Q&A, Recovery, Sobriety
Early recovery is a time when our emotions return and may even be heightened for a period of time. We spent so much time deadening our emotional natures with drugs and alcohol, that it is only natural that we will begin to feel a strong resurgence of emotion in...
by Keenen Diamond | Feb 8, 2023 | Life in Recovery, Recovery, Sobriety
We used drugs and alcohol as a way of coping with the discomfort of the outside world. Rarely could we enter into any social situation without being under the influence of substances. We felt safe and protected in a cloud of intoxication. Eventually, however, we found...
by Keenen Diamond | Feb 5, 2023 | Mental Health, Q&A, Recovery
Critical thinking is not necessarily what you think it is. It is not even a radical concept or idea that is new but the truth is recovery tends to involve a lot of emotion and less thinking. If you are in an addiction recovery program, you are dealing with lots of...
by Keenen Diamond | Feb 4, 2023 | medical detox, Addiction Treatment, Q&A
The first step toward sobriety is often detoxifying the body of any traces of drugs or alcohol. This is done in order to break one’s physical dependence and pave the way for rehab treatment. Some drugs, like alcohol and opioids, create such strong physical dependence...
