Try These Tips to Cope with Clinical Depression Symptoms Dealing with depression can feel lonely and difficult for millions of people who suffer. Clinical depression can often take a person out of life and down the rabbit hole of painful experiences, including substance abuse, which alters their lives until they find healing. Learning how to…
Why Are Executives Struggling with Mood Disorders and Addiction? People are expected to be uber productive these days. This means getting more stuff done at a more rapid pace. Mental health and wellness is suffering, especially in the c-suite and boardrooms across America. While many things drive addiction and mood disorders, nobody is really immune.…
How to Let the Power of Uncertainty Strengthen Resolve After Addiction Getting into a certain rhythm with our days is a great pattern to embrace in recovery. Taking time to breathe, walk outside, focus with intention on healing are ways to let the troubles of the world roll off our backs and create space for…
Stress Relief is Key to Navigate the Challenges of Addiction for Lawyers Lawyers are not immune to the stress and challenges of life and work. They have higher rates of substance abuse because of their profession, some of it due to personality, and other due to the myriad ways addiction can take over a person’s…
Why Does a Healthy Family Culture Matter? People in recovery from addiction may not think too much about family culture and why it matters in the grand scheme of things. One of the first things to be impacted by addiction is family life. Relationships get strained, some will enable the addiction to continue while others…
Don’t Let Resentment Curtail Recovery: Try These 4 Tips Instead Resentment comes from feeling anger and fear, a combination which can take recovery off the rails without conscious thought. Anger can take place at any point in a person’s recovery towards any person, place, or thing but resentment builds and starts to impact all areas…
Why is Executive Addiction Treatment Different Than Other Kinds of Rehab? The challenges professionals face in treatment for addiction are different than those for the average person seeking help. What makes their circumstances unique include the type of work they perform everyday, on top of struggling with addiction, while trying to maintain their professional lives.…
These Are Just a Few Signs of Addiction in the Nursing Profession Nurses are not exempt to having their own challenges when it comes to addiction and recovery due to the nature of their jobs. Not only that, but they are naturally giving and kind people who typically want to do what they can to…
Does Alcohol Abuse Impact Blood Pressure? Blood circulation is important for health but nobody really think about how alcohol abuse and blood pressure are related. When taking into account the impact of alcohol on the brain and body, it is important to understand why excessive amounts of alcohol can impact the cardiovascular system, blood, and…
Why Values Are Important to Living Sober and Clean Personal values come from a person’s deep intentions about how they want to live their lives. They are important to how you set goals in recovery and find success. Values can influence behavior, thoughts, feelings, choices, and how you live out your life in sobriety. If…