What Does Detox from Marijuana Look Like? Marijuana is being touted for its medicinal qualities in the news media, but the drug can have increasingly devastating effects on people who use it recreationally. Addiction and dependence are very real challenges for people who struggle with marijuana use in their lives. One of the necessary components…
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What Willingness to Recover Has to Do With Healing Nobody can be forced to recover from addiction. The first step to healing is admitting a problem exists, followed by the second step, which is the willingness to receive treatment. Addiction steals many things from a person’s life, but it can be the will and desire…
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Does Anxiety Play a Role in Relapse? Relapse can be triggered by many things in recovery. A person can be simply out for a walk when a memory, thought, or sensation pops into their head and hijacks the brain. It makes it seem like everything they learned in recovery or thought they knew about themselves…
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What is the Role of Spirituality in Addiction Treatment? Spirituality looks different for everybody in recovery. Some people prefer to think about it in a deeper, more religious sense, and others are wanting to find other means of incorporating spirituality into treatment. Recovery from addiction is an emotional, physical, and spiritual transformation. When you take…
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Why Empathy is a Critical Skill to Hone in Recovery Empathy does not come easy to some people. It can be hard to experience what other people experience in their human condition. When you continue to develop the ability to empathize, you learn how to put yourself in others’ shoes but you don’t always know…
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Why is Sobriety a Gift? Getting to recovery is a journey made of many smaller steps. Sobriety in itself is a gift because it keeps reminding you that you made it here from where you were. Even if that was yesterday, you are one step closer to your goal of being away from drugs and…
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The Mental Health Benefits of Bird Watching May Surprise You Watching birds may not be high on your list of things to do on any given day. However, if you stop to look around, you might notice some interesting things about birds as they flit around your yard, sit in trees, or even chase each…
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What is Dual Diagnosis Treatment for Professionals? Professionals who struggle with addiction and mental health issues often struggle in silence. Any executive can develop addiction and mental health issues. No lawyer, doctor, or other professional is immune. While lawyers may have money and power, they also have the same issues in life others have, on…
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Why it May Be Time to Try Horticultural Therapy Gardening and getting your hands dirty may not be the first thing you think about when considering therapy. Yet, from prisoners to survivors with PTSD and other people who struggle with addiction, horticultural therapy is helping heal old wounds. The focus on planting and seeing something…
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What is a Live-in Sober Coach and Can it Help People in Recovery? A new way to hold people accountable in recovery has emerged that challenges the idea of how to maintain sobriety every day. Professionals who have a higher income are seeking sober companions who live in their homes as a coach and support…
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