My First AA Meeting
My first AA meeting was a shock. Family members of those in recovery don’t often think an AA meeting might be for them, too. As...
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Gratitude Makes Life Rich
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Gratitude Helps You Understand
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Acknowledging Help With Gratitude
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Quiz: Do You Really Know All The Best...
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Reparenting Therapy Can Help You Heal Your Inner...
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6 Reasons Why We Stay In Bad Relationships
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Emotional Sobriety
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What You May Not Know About Codependency
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12 Important Reminders for People Who Struggle with...
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When It’s Hard To Be True To Yourself,...
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Acceptance Is Not Passive; It’s the Path to...
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Add These 8 Things to Your Morning Routine...
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10 Things To Be Thankful For
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You Are Not Hard To Love
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Giving Up On Your Goals
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What Are You Doing Today
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2600% More People Killed By Alcohol Than Rifles...
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Do You Wish You Had More Time
Getting Help
Getting Help This category has articles about treatments, finding help, helping loved ones and all manner of recovery support
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12 Step Programs Do They Really Work
If 12 step programs work, why is addiction still growing? That’s a great question many people keep asking. Addiction is growing by leaps and bounds,...
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The Three C’s Of Relapse Prevention
Connection, Confession, Consolation For me, the steps of 12-steps programs were transformational. Learning how to make a connection to a higher power was a spiritual...
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Give A Child The Gift Of Hope
Give the gift of hope to a child coping with addiction, divorce, or emotional abuse this season. You can help a child you love begin...
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Breaking The Substance Abuse Grief Stigma
Grief stigma makes you feel even worse about your pain, and happens with substance abuse more than you think. Stigma about a grief reaction is...
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How I Got Financial Recovery
Why would anyone need financial recovery? Substance use was only part of it. I traveled the road from privileged to pampered to spoiled to entitled...
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Money Worries? Help Is On The Way
Do you have money worries no matter how much you earn, or how good your life seems? Do you keep wondering why you just can’t...
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How To Get Help When You Can’t Afford Rehab
Getting treatment for addiction can be difficult and overwhelming. Rehabs are often far away and expensive. Don’t panic. There’s help in every zip code if...
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Coping With A Loved One’s Depression
A loved one’s depression can be…well depressing for those around him/her. You can feel guilty. You can feel to blame. You can be angry and...
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Helping Male Survivors Of Sexual Abuse
Males survivors of sexual abuse are in the news with the #MeToo movement and the ongoing investigation of Internet porn and pedophile priests. Estimates show...
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Apps and Tips to Help in Early Recovery
Recovery is hard—especially early recovery. It’s a given. Everyone has a tough time sticking with it, so any extra aids and tips are basically gold. Because...
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12 Tips On Sleep In Early Recovery
Can’t sleep? Odds are, you’re not alone. Sleeping problems are very common in the early days, weeks and even months of recovery due to the...
