What You Can Do to Help Someone in Recovery
Being close to someone with an addiction can be one of life’s most difficult emotional challenges. You know intuitively that you are important to them and their recovery, yet you feel powerless to help. You want to do everything you can, but you don’t want to make the wrong moves—and you have to take care […]
What to Do if Your Spouse is an Addict
Discovering, realizing, or even simply finally accepting that your spouse is addicted to drugs or alcohol can be devastating. You love this person. You have bonded your life to his or hers. You imagine your future together, and you want it to always be happy, healthy, and positive. Unfortunately, all of that is surely clouded […]
How Exercise Can Help You Stay Sober
You took the steps necessary to become clean and sober for many reasons, but one major and all-encompassing motivator was likely a desire to live a healthier life. Now that you are well on your way down your path to recovery, what can you do next to become even stronger and healthier than you ever […]
Celebrities Who Struggled with Addiction—and Won
The idea that celebrities live perfect lives is a popular one until you think about the great equalizer that addiction really is. Although it’s true that a celebrity might not end up homeless or in jail as quickly as an “ordinary” addict, even world-famous drug users know the feeling of being totally powerless against their […]
How to Bounce Back After a Relapse
Unfortunately, you relapsed. Right now, you are probably blaming yourself and think you are a complete and total failure. You are likely scared and confused, and you don’t know what to do next. The first and most important thing you need to know in this moment, though, is that relapses happen – and they happen […]
How A Good Bedtime Routine can Help While in Recovery
Although the word routine has in some ways become synonymous with boring, the fact of the matter is that routine is important, and is helpful to us in so many ways. Developing routines for different parts of your day can be a great tool to you in recovery. Not only do routines help to keep […]
Creating a Morning Routine When in Recovery
It’s likely that when you were deep in the darkness of your addiction that the first thing you thought of or did when you woke up in the morning was get high, get drunk, or – at the very least – immediately begin thinking about when and how you could obtain your drug of choice […]
Earth Day Activities that Can Help Your Recovery
This year on April 22, the world will celebrate Earth Day for the 49th time. When you think about it, Earth Day is the perfect celebration for people in recovery. It’s all about making a fresh start and transforming something that was problematic into something that’s positive. Earth Day celebrates our ability as humans and […]
How to Talk to Your Kids About Drugs
It is imperative that all parents talk to their kids about substance use, abuse, and addiction, but as someone in recovery, it’s especially important that you do so. There is good news from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA_; their 2017 Monitoring the Future survey showed that teenage substance use and abuse is in […]
The Challenges and Risks of Drug Addiction While Pregnant
Pregnancy and impending motherhood is a very exciting time in any woman’s life. However, if a woman is battling drug or alcohol addiction or a combination of both, having a child on the way can be stressful for the mother-to-be, and continued substance abuse can be extremely dangerous for both her and her unborn child. […]