Mom Needs Patience For Recovery
Patience for recovery is something we don’t talk about much. Having a chronic, progressive, relapsing brain disease (or Substance Use Disorder) sounds pretty serious, and...
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Be The Person You Need
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You Can Move On Without Them
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Grudges Don’t Show Your Strength
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10 Things People With Depression Should Do Each...
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New Study Finds Grand Rapids Has Highest Rate...
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9 Tips for Enjoying the Holidays While Maintaining...
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Psychadelic ‘Wonder Drug’ That Could Cure Addiction Will...
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Have You Ridden An Emotional Roller Coaster?
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Sit In The Morning Sun
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Clean Up Your Vocabulary
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Gratitude Unlocks The Fullness Of Life
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Find The Beauty In The World
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Rejoice For What You Have
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Calmness Is Found In Gratitude
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Mental Abuse Is Still Abuse
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The World Can Wait
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Family Isn’t Always Blood
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Don’t Question Your Worth
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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5 Tips To Overcome Fear And Shame
Shame seems to be at the heart of all addictions. We experience shame over the wounds of our early childhood traumas, our seemingly inherent weaknesses, inability...
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Recovery Slogans Let It Begin With Me
Everyone who enters a 12 step program learns some recovery slogans. The idea is that if you say them often enough, you can actually change...
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8 Essential Steps To Addiction Recovery
Is there path to addiction recovery that should be followed? What steps have to be taken, and how long before recovery works? Is just stopping...
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Why Grief And Sadness Linger
Grief and sadness can catch you off guard when you least expect it. It’s been four years since my most enthusiastic cheerleaders have been gone....
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How To Get Sober
Wondering how to get sober? Maybe you’ve been considering quitting drinking for a while, but now you’re ready to take the first step. Getting sober...
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How Long Does It Take To Heal –
Eighteen months. That’s how much time researchers say it takes to heal. Eighteen months for each stress inducing life event. Be it marriage or divorce,...
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Rebuilding Character In Recovery
The devastating effects of addiction on physical/emotional health and social functioning have been meticulously catalogued, but far less attention has been given to its toll...
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Why Quitting Is Only The First Step To Lasting Change
Lasting change is what recovery is all about. Quitting alcohol, or your drug of choice, is only the first step in the needed transformation that...
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Top 10 recovery definitions you should know
Addiction and recovery definitions are constantly evolving with new recovery research and an ongoing effort to normalize a disease that has been stigmatized and punished...
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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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Healing From Toxic Relationships –
Toxic relationships are never easy. After we find recovery, we often have little or no room left in our lives for the drama that comes...
