The Importance of Celebrating Your Recovery
With September coined as National Recovery Month, a relevant topic that some may forget to discuss is the importance of celebrating recovery. There are so many things that people celebrate throughout their lives. We celebrate birthdays, new jobs, relationships, anniversaries, and much more. Celebrating these important milestones in a person’s life shouldn’t be taken for…
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What Are Your Triggers?
Keys to a successful recovery include knowing what triggers you, how to cope with cravings, and how to avoid each. A lot of things, including people, events, and situations, can be harmful triggers to those in recovery. These triggers can lead to lapses and relapses, which can cause some to feel shame and guilt about…
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Meditate Your Way Through Recovery
Like with anything, understanding how something works, in general, helps you to determine how it could help you in any life situation. In order to understand how meditation can help treat addiction and maintain recovery, it’s important to understand meditation and its health benefits as a whole. What Is Meditation? Meditation is a core practice…
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The Healing Effect of Music Therapy
As therapies and methods of treatment have evolved in the medical community over the past few decades alone, treatment methods that may at one point have seemed a bit unorthodox have become increasingly popular and effective. Aside from homeopathic and spiritual or cultural practices that are still considered to be taboo, one type of therapy…
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Emotional and Clinical Recovery Support
Chances are that many of you reading this article have experienced at least one doctor who could stand to work on their bedside manners. Often, individuals in the medical community will have a lot to offer, but empathy and emotional support are not always in that regiment. On the flip side, hopefully, many of you…
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A Holistic Lifestyle Guide to a Holistic Recovery
A holistic approach to recovery means looking at the well-being of several dimensions of health. These dimensions can include physical, emotional, and social well-being; in some cases, this can also include a person’s spiritual well-being. Similarly to why individualized treatment has become so important in today’s modern methods of treatment, holistic approaches to recovery have…
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The Importance of Individualized Treatment
In recent years, the importance of individualized treatment and care has been emphasized, not only in treating substance use disorders and addiction but in terms of healthcare in general. Fortunately, medical professionals have finally come to the understanding that one path of treatment does not fit all patients. Whether it’s a medical treatment for a…
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How Addiction May Be Affecting Your Family
People often discuss the effects of addiction on an individual’s physical and mental health, well-being, and overall quality of life. We sometimes forget though how addiction affects the lives of friends, family, and loved ones. It’s a strange relationship because while loved ones may not understand addiction if they haven’t gone through it themselves, they…
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Nicotine Use and Recovery
There are many misconceptions regarding quitting nicotine products, and they are relevant whether you are in recovery or not. Nicotine habits have existed for hundreds of years, initially with users having no idea the negative effects nicotine has on the body until the 1900s. Reasons Why People Use Nicotine in Recovery Like most harmful habits,…
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The Return to Normal After COVID
Looking over the past year and a half, many of us may still be trying to process all that has gone on. With community shutdowns and individuals experiencing copious amounts of isolation, the past 18 months have been a breeding ground for increased rates of depression, anxiety, suicidal ideations, substance use, and other mental illnesses.…
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