Writing can be an invaluable tool in your road to recovery after you've been through drug and alcohol detox treatments at a medical detox facility and addiction recovery center. Writing therapy involves journaling thoughts and feelings to manage emotions and reduce stress. Also known as therapeutic or expressive ... Read More
Ways To Use Your Cell Phone as a Tool for Sober Living
These days there are countless tools and shortcuts out there that can help you maintain and support a structured, happy, sober life. An especially useful tool are smart phones. They are as ubiquitous these days as rotary phones were, hanging on kitchen walls against yellowing wallpaper forty years ago. Cell phones are ... Read More
The Importance of Getting Enough Sleep in Your Sober Life
We know that it is pretty common for someone who has insomnia to also suffer from anxiety and depression. We also know that sleep deprivation is literally a form of torture used to break down will power and mental stamina. It then clearly follows that in order to continue recovering after your drug detox and alcohol ... Read More
The Way Music Can Shape Healing
If you’re like me you listen to music to guide you through hard moments—to celebrate to, dance out your hurt to or to dance deeply into your passion. Music is like another sense. I think about music like I think about the way my olfactory functions link to memory. It can bring me back to a moment in my life just as ... Read More
How To Tell Your Parents You Need Help
There’s nothing scarier than confessing to your parents that you have a problem with addiction to drugs and alcohol, that you need to find help through a medically supervised alcohol detox program and drug detox facility, and that you desperately need them to support you instead of angry with you. Parents want to see ... Read More
Going to a New Doctor
As we make the choice every day to chose a sober lifestyle, as opposed to the life wrecked by drug and alcohol addiction, we experience different times each day that we could turn back and take away a little bit of our hard won progress. Steps we have taken to distance ourselves more from our destructive drug abuse or ... Read More
Rehab, There and Back Again
It’s hard for anyone to see themselves clearly and honestly enough to realize that they have an addiction to drugs or a problem with alcohol abuse. The whole reason someone gets hooked by a substance is because it makes them feel good somehow. It fills some kind of need. It’s scary to admit that you need help and even ... Read More
Gambling Addiction & The Sunk Cost Fallacy
While much of the mechanics of substance addiction occur behind the scenes, in the interactions of biology and chemistry within a person’s body, gambling addiction is a behavior that is acted out externally. As a result, there are more quantifiable facts observable than with most addiction disorders. Profiting ... Read More