Using Transcendental Meditation to Support Your Recovery

Various eastern spiritual and health practices have gained significant popularity in the West since the 1960s, including yoga, tai chi, martial arts, and meditation. The primary purpose behind these practices, and of particular interest to recovering addicts struggling with cravings and temptations, is the mastery of one’s own mind and thought processes. Meditation is the conscious relaxing of your mind and body while remaining completely aware.

How Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Can Help with Recovery

If you’ve done any research into addiction treatment programs or rehabilitation, you may have come across facilities offering Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT. Aside from the million dollar words, the concept is fairly simple to grasp and the benefits of utilizing this kind of therapy during addiction recovery are profound. 

Support Your Recovery with Proper Nutrition

Sobriety and the Holidays

The First Global Corporate Marijuana Brand Features Bob Marley

It was inevitable and with sweeping legal reforms creating massive momentum for the legalization of marijuana, it’s becoming a reality. A group of venture capitalist investors from Seattle have partnered with the Marley family to create the first global corporate brand of cannabis and they’re calling it Marley Natural. 

Guns N’ Roses Drummer Goes Clean

After decades in the spotlight as one of the most iconic party bands of rock history, it can be tough to go the sober route. But that’s what Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler is doing these days. Adler struggled with alcoholism and drug abuse throughout the 1980s and 90s along with his band mates and other celebrity musicians of the day. That kind of lifestyle glorifies substance abuse more than any other and Adler lived through it. 

Pennsylvania Couple Push for ‘Anthony’s Act’ to Extend Inpatient Treatment

Tips for Sober Living during the Holiday Season

We’ve written before about how difficult the holiday season can be for recovering alcoholics and addicts but the subject can’t get enough attention. The gauntlet of Thanksgiving through New Year’s may as well be set up for the sole purpose of punishing and pummeling recovering addicts for all the stress and temptation it puts on your recovery. But there is always hope. Isn’t that the spirit of the holidays? Hope.

Here are 3 tips for managing your sobriety during the most trying of family gathering times.

Misunderstandings about Sex Addiction

Your Brain on Porn