Namaste Your Way to Productivity: Tips for Enhancing Calm Throughout the Day Work is stressful, even if you are not in recovery. Work seems to consume everyone’s lives whether it is being connected all the time to the office, having a never-ending workload, or trying to schedule life around work. The idea of adding ‘one…
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Can the Myth That Everyone is Doing Better Derail Recovery? Even when it seems you are doing well in recovery, it is easy to think the grass is greener on someone else’s recovery lawn. The myth everyone else is doing better in recovery not only breeds envy, it steals joy from the victories of your…
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How to Know and Honor Your Truth for a Better Recovery When someone asks a person if they are ‘living their truth,’ they are most likely asking if that person is living into who they truly are rather than living for other people. It is a powerful reminder to stay focused in recovery. Whether you…
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How Do People Become Addicted to Sleeping Pills? People successfully treat short-term insomnia with sleeping pills, many become dependent on them. Approximately 38 million prescription for Ambien were written between 2006 and 2011. A perceived blessing for medical professionals has left people thinking there are no alternatives to help them with sleep or pain relief.…
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Finding Your Purpose is So Cliche: Why You Should Still Try to Find it Anyways Finding your purpose seems to be the cliche line of the day at the moment. Every coach and person out there seems to have a secret remedy to help people find their life purpose in 12 easy steps. If only…
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Why Are Cross and Co-Occurring Addictions So Challenging? Cross-addictions occur when people with addiction switch back and forth from one addiction to another. When people with addiction are unable to use their primary addiction for self-soothing or dissociation, they switch to a secondary addiction. Co-occurring addictions may occur when people with addiction engage in multiple…
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Learn More About Gaslighting and Tips to Recover from Emotional Abuse Gaslighting is a tactic manipulators use to keep you from building confidence in yourself and your abilities. The other person may spin stories to their advantage that make you question your own memory and doubt yourself. They may skillfully manipulate how you feel to…
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How Do I Practice Self-Compassion? Being compassionate with oneself in recovery can be a difficult lesson to learn. Compassion is that emotion that you feel in response to suffering, usually of another person. This is something that can be felt for oneself also. We tend to have lots of compassion for others, but surprisingly little…
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Does Exercise and Movement Really Help Recovery? Moving the body has myriad benefits for people in recovery. Simply moving every day can boost the mood and more intense exercising can create long lasting health benefits for the body. Making a daily commitment to stay physically active can optimize recovery. Here are some tips on how…
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How Can I Cope with Triggered Emotions in Recovery? Emotions can drive people to drink or use drugs. Maybe when a person drinks they feel stressed, or smoke marijuana to ease pain, loneliness, or something else. Just having those feelings in recovery can give them a desire to use – a craving. Commonly triggering feelings…
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