Life After Alcohol
For a person who falls heavily in to an abusive, dependent relationship with drugs or alcohol, the prospect of sobriety is about more than not using. It’s a complete and total life overhaul that few people are fully ready for when it comes time to face the music. In fact, one of the biggest sources of resistance is facing the idea that you’ll have to become a completely different person when you give up the crutch.
How to Cope with a Craving in 5 Steps
5 Things You Tell Yourself before Relapse
While everyone faces his/her own unique recovery with all its own challenges and hurdles, the commonality amongst all relapse is that you have to talk yourself into it. Here are a few common things you might end up saying to yourself just to alleviate the guilt of reaching across the line for a fix or a drink.
“Those Were the Good Ole Days”
10 Ways to Stay Positive Everyday
You’ve heard it before but it should be said again - addiction recovery is not easy. Each day is a challenge to keep your head in the right place. But if you’re struggling to stay positive, these 10 tips can help you find your way back.
#1. Love yourself and accept you for you
Practice daily affirmations. List all the things you love about yourself. Whatever it takes to remind yourself of all the things that make you, you. Embrace yourself for who you are.
Don’t Let Resentment Keep You from Recovery
When you’re in recovery from addiction, one of the biggest threats is getting caught up in negative emotions. Resentment is among the most powerful of these debilitating states of mind. For many recovering addicts, resentments can trigger the urge to use and are a major threat to addiction recovery.
What is resentment?
Low Serotonin Levels Could be Responsible for Addiction
A new study conducted by Sarah Bradbury, who recently received her PhD in Psychology, has found a direct correlation between drug addiction and levels of serotonin in the brain. This study has the potential to start a revolution in addiction recovery treatment.
Let the Rage Out
We talk a lot in the addiction recovery community about finding your place of peace and working toward self-control. The prescription for seeking balance and harmony in your life is often a suggested regiment of calming practices like meditation and yoga. While these neo-hippie forms of peaceful calming can certainly have beneficial effects on the mind, body, and soul—especially in regards to cravings—some of us (the warriors) need a little more adrenaline to get through the pains of recovery.
Skateboarding Legend Christian Hosoi on Finding Faith
A Brief History of Crack Cocaine
Made famous be media hysteria and inner city violence throughout the 1980s and 90s, crack is a fairly well known drug, at least in theory. Most people wouldn’t be able to tell much about it, other than it’s what the black kids do in Harlem and South LA. While those stereotypes proliferated in the past 30 years, the story is a little broader than that.
The Rise of Heroin
Heroin is one of the most well-known addiction drugs in the Western world and often conjures up retro stereotypes of dirty, unwashed needle freaks lying a dirty mattress in some abandoned building. Let’s veer away from the Hollywood/media version of Heroin addiction and take a look at some of the facts and history of the chemical compound known as Heroin.