Staying Sober During The Holidays
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year This year the holiday season will look slightly different than it ever has before. As we continue to navigate a world shaped by the current state of ...
How to Stay Sober While Grieving
Staying sober is not always easy - especially when you are going through a significant emotional experience such as grieving the loss of a loved one. In some ways, recovering from the loss of ...
How Gratitude Lists Help Alcohol Addiction Recovery
When it comes to addiction recovery, there are innumerable things to be grateful for. At the top of list, of course is sobriety. Getting sober is no small feat, and staying sober (at least ...
Top Ten Reasons To Quit Drinking Beer and Alcohol
For the average person, drinking alcohol can be a fun social activity or a component of relaxing and unwinding after a long day at work (think grabbing a beer with friends or sipping on ...
Relapse Prevention – Dealing With Highly Triggered Areas: Sporting Events
Being new to addiction recovery can be challenging for a variety of reasons. You’re learning how to have fun without the use of drugs and alcohol, you’re beginning on a major journey of self-discovery ...
How to Tell Friends You’re in Addiction Recovery
Telling those close to you that you’re in addiction recovery can be rather intimidating. While you have probably heard that admitting your addiction is the first step towards recovery, admitting your addiction to yourself can ...
How to Parent Your Adult Child
Parents never stop being parents, even as children grow up, get jobs, move out and have families of their own. As a parent, you’re committed to your child’s success, regardless of their age, and ...
What Is Powerlessness? Step One of the 12-Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous
“We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable.” That’s Step 1 of the 12-Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, and as anyone who is active in the 12-Step community ...
Eradicating the Shame of Addiction
September was National Recovery Month. We observed Mental Illness Awareness Week at the beginning of October. Yesterday, we recognized World Mental Health Day. These three observances have some overall objectives, many of which overlap: Raising awareness about mental ...
RECOVERY CHALLENGE DURING HOLIDAYS
Are you new to addiction recovery? If you are, then you may find yourself dreading next week a little—or a lot. Next Tuesday is our Independence Day. And for many working a program of recovery, major ...
