Recovery Activity Book

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Need help calming down? This recovery activity book soothes and reinforces recovery principles while you learn a new way to think. Recovery literacy is necessary for the whole family to heal.  Find Your True Colors In 12 Steps, translates early recovery lessons so friends and family can join their loved ones in this empowering new […]

Quitting Alcohol Set Me Free

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Quitting alcohol seemed unnecessary when I decided to do it. After all, I am not an alcoholic, I would have said. I have always had a stop button. Alcohol was not my problem. I stopped swallowing at one-and-a-half martinis. (Actually, that’s quite a lot.) I never fell down, got arrested, cracked up the car, lost […]

5 ways Yoga recovery works to restore life after addiction –

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Yoga recovery is a tool that works in many ways to enhance recovery from whatever ails you. Do you know what it is? Yoga is one of six major schools of thought in Hinduism.  There are different yoga disciplines, practices and goals.  The postures in yoga are designed to keep the body fit and to […]

De-cluttering Is A Healthy Detachment –

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Spring cleaning is an old concept that has grown beyond dusting behind the sofa. Spring cleaning can mean a deeper kind of de-cluttering that extends from our personal belongings to our destructive personal relationships as well. The KonMari method of de-cluttering and organizing asks that each item (or person in our story) under consideration be […]

Recovery Results Appreciate The Progress

How should we measure recovery results? I used to work for someone who would regularly remark, “I really don’t care how hard someone is trying, I only care about the results they get me.” This may be a good line of thinking when it comes to business performance, but it doesn’t apply to addiction recovery […]

How Much Fiber Do You Need

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From Everyday Health By Angela Lemond, RDN Eat more fiber. We’ve all heard this advice, so we assume it must be good for us. The problem is that fiber and flavor might seem like opposites — and for many of us, flavor is the typical driver of food choice. But the reality is that fiber […]