Posts Tagged ‘recovery’
Obtaining Recovery Through Your Passion
As you get older, you might become less inclined to chase your dreams or follow your passions. Your situations cause you to take more practical routes in your life. Making these more rational decisions affects almost every part of your life. You may become unhappy because you do not enjoy what you do for a…
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What Makes a Successful Mental Health Assessment?
To be diagnosed with a mental disorder, you must first go through an assessment by a medical or mental health professional. What makes a successful mental health assessment? Especially when seeking virtual treatment, you may be skeptical of the effectiveness of your assessment. A mental health assessment should analyze your symptoms and experiences to effectively…
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The Transformation of Recovery
There are many stigmas around addiction that can prevent you from seeking treatment. When untreated, drug and alcohol addiction leads to thousands of deaths every year. Over the past couple of decades, we have seen monumental advances in treatment. The culture of our mental health treatment has gone from sending individuals who are suffering from…
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Spirituality and Recovery
Many things can help you maintain your recovery. By implementing certain practices into everyday life, you can find the motivation to continue sobriety. In some cases that includes starting a new hobby, focusing on fitness and nutrition, or spirituality. It is a common practice to incorporate spirituality into recovery. Everyone is in a different place…
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Benefits of Seeking Help From Others in Recovery
Sometimes, the most robust support networks are made of people who are also in recovery. Some may think these relationships are like the blind leading the blind, but building relationships with others in recovery is conducive to all individuals involved. It is a relationship of mutual benefits. As you strengthen your path to recovery, someone…
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The Benefits of Having a Staff in Recovery Themselves
Many treatment facilities have staff members who are on the path to recovery themselves. That includes our staff at the Lakehouse Recovery Center. It is not uncommon for people in recovery to enter into a career revolving around helping others recovering from addiction. Seeking treatment from individuals in recovery can be beneficial to your treatment.…
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Understanding the Pink Cloud
Have you ever heard of the expression “pink cloud” when discussing addiction recovery? This may be a brand new phrase or term for you. So what exactly is this pink cloud? Essentially, it is a term used to express a feeling of euphoria experienced during early recovery. It seems contradictory to use the term “euphoria”…
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Learning to Ask For Help
It is common to have trouble asking for help, whether it is because you fear looking weak, or because you simply are not sure how to. At some point, you will need help, and the inability to ask for it can make life more difficult than it needs to be and can leave you feeling…
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Using Creativity to Frame Your Recovery
Utilizing creative outlets to cope with trauma, mental illness, or life stressors can prove to be very beneficial. Creativity can help frame your recovery and lead to longer-lasting sobriety. How you go about creating that framework depends on you. Early on in recovery, you may begin to doubt yourself. Perhaps you begin to think that…
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Why Your Internal Clock Could Be a Key Factor in a Successful Recovery Plan
It is common for addiction recovery programs to have a time frame. Some programs only last 30 days or have a cap on how long clients can stay with the facility. Time constraints like this are not conducive to a successful recovery. There is no set timeline for how long treatment should last. Giving you…
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