Is Water Fasting Safe? Water fasting is popular in the wellness world. You should approach it with caution. It may help you lose weight but it is not sustainable to health or weight loss. It may put you at risk of health complications, especially in recovery. Know more about it before you consider starting one…
How to Burn Some Fat Without Lifting Weights Fat-burning exercise routines do not have to take hours of work and lots of space. Intense workouts often burn more fat than long, extended ones. You don’t need a gym to make it happen, just enough room to do a push-up. The goal is not to worry…
How Do I Get Started with a Yoga Practice? Starting yoga is a great feeling but also overwhelming. Maybe it has been awhile, maybe it is the first time ever putting your feet on that mat. Not only do you not know what type of yoga to try, you are also in recovery so you…
Try Healthier Habits in Recovery for a Boost Healthy habits are hard to maintain. Eating healthy, exercising, keeping a good body weight, not smoking are just a few that are good for us but we don’t always do them. The healthiest lifestyles are those that help people stay healthy longer and achieve a better course…
What is DMT Addiction? DMT is an abbreviation for a drug called N, N-Dimethyltryptamine, a chemical that develops in the brain. It also grows in plants indigenous to Central and South America. As a drug, DMT typically takes the form of white powder which may be smoked with a pipe or brewed into hallucinogenic drinks…
Your Wandering Mind is Just Fine: How to Stop Worrying When You Can’t Focus When you are sitting somewhere or walking around and find your mind wandering, it is okay to wonder why you simply cannot stop and focus for five minutes. While most literature paints your mind wandering as detrimental, even dysfunctional, it is…
How Do People in Rural Communities Find Help for Addiction? Access to health care continues to be a topic of global discussion, with accessibility to treatment needing to be addressed as part of that access. People in rural areas particularly struggle to find help for addiction. More than 100 million people in the United States…
Why the Early Bird May Have an Advantage Over the Night Owl The inner workings of the body clock are just beginning to be known for how much they help our overall health. When we think about mental health and disease, it is good to know about circadian rhythms and the body’s natural way of…
How Do I Know if I Struggle with Learned Helplessness? Learned helplessness is a state animals can get into when they meet negative stimuli when they try to escape. After awhile, they stop trying to get away. They assume the situation is hopeless and cannot be changed. This can become such an issue that even…
Mindfulness is Good for the Brain: Here’s Why Mindfulness-based programs have been developed to reduce stress and medical symptoms to promote overall wellness. One thought is to what extent these programs are different or the same. Stress reduction courses seem a dime a dozen lately, so finding the right mindfulness practice is healing and helpful…