How Employers Can Improve the Workplace for a Recovering Addict
Hear us out for a moment: there are many ways employers can improve the workplace for a recovering addict—and many reasons that it’s worth doing. Substance abuse and addiction can cost any workplace a lot. Employees who use illicit drugs, drink heavily, or abuses prescription medications are more likely to make mistakes or be injured […]
President Trump’s Plan to Fight and Prevent Opioid Addiction
United States’ President Donald Trump recently announced a new plan to fight opioid abuse and addiction in this country. As nearly everyone knows, there is a major opioid epidemic in the United States today, and something needs to be done to stop it – and fast. According to current statistics, 115 people die from opioid […]
Learn How Pranayama Can Help You Through Recovery
Have you heard of pranayama? This centuries-old practice can be a great help to you on your recovery journey. It’s so simple, and you can do it almost anywhere, at any time. The tools that you need to participate are things you have with you always, and immediately upon practice, you will feel relaxed, grounded, […]
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 […]