Your Best 5 Tip Relapse Prevention Plan
A Relapse Prevention Plan Ensures Lasting Recovery Having a relapse prevention plan, no matter where you are on your recovery, is a smart and realistic thing to do. Recovery is not a straight line—it’s more like a winding road with sharp turns, detours, and the occasional pothole that may wreck one of your tires. As […]
Tough Conversations Don’t Need To Be
We’ve Created Language like “Tough Conversations” and “Radical Honesty” But Why? I went to a fabulous event last week where a speaker shared the idea of how we are making conversations and communication harder by thinking of them as ‘tough conversations’ or using ‘brutal honesty’. This hit a note for me because in recovery we […]
Unsafe Situations for Girls in College
Unsafe Situations For Girls Are All Around Us So The Key Is To Know The Risks We all want our girls to be safe and enjoy their time in school. But, sadly the facts are in and unsafe situations for girls are everywhere in college. Between assault, drinking, scams, school pressure, cyberbullying, and mental health issues, […]
The Rise of “Behavioral Sobriety”
Recovery Isn’t Just Sobriety: The Rise of “Behavioral Sobriety” For years, when people asked us what recovery looked like, we talked about the obvious thing. The drinking. Putting down the bottle, counting the days, learning to sit in a room full of strangers and say the hardest sentence in the English language out loud. But […]
Men’s Mental Health Is Having A Moment
Men’s Mental Health: Why More Men Are Finally Saying “I’m Not Okay” Finally, men’s mental health is getting the spotlight it deserves. For a long time, the emotional script handed to men was short and rigid: handle it, don’t talk about it, definitely don’t cry about it. But, that has never been the recipe for […]
Nervous System Regulation: You Are Overloaded, Not Broken
Nervous System Regulation: What Nervous System Overload Actually Means Is a lack of nervous system regulation making you feel exhausted, crazy, drained or depressed? We’re hearing it all the time over here–people feel burnt out, anxious, or are worried they’re lazy and not getting enough done even though they are trying their best. So, rere’s […]