Growing Up In Recovery After You Get Sober
If you stick around recovery groups for a while, you’ll eventually hear someone talk about growing up in recovery. That’s my story. When this all...
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Pay attention To Their Behavior
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No One Is Entitled To Treat You Badly
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Who Loves You
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How The Past And The Future Can Rob...
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Why I Was Desperate to Be with an...
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Why Self-Doubt Can Be Your Secret Weapon
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This shabby log cabin hosts sobriety groups. Beverly...
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Brad Pitt Gets Emotional As He Thanks Bradley...
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You Are Not “Too Much” to Be Loved
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Living In Reality Will Make You Happier
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20 Ways To Be A Happier Person In...
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Kindness Can Actually Slow Aging
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The Surprising Psychology Behind Perpetual Lateness
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My “Stress” Was Actually High-Functioning Anxiety
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The Agony Of Weekend Loneliness: ‘I Won’t Speak...
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Growing Up with a Narcissist: How I’m Healing...
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10 Things to Expect When a Narcissist Knows...
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22 Things That Happen When An Empath Falls...
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The Three Cs 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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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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Why You Need Sober Inspiration Right Now
When you first get sober, the only sober inspiration you need is not feel so shitty. Just the idea of shakes and withdrawals being over...
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Raw Relapse: Recovery Month 2019
About that night the relapse ended… There was a knock on my car window, the driver’s side. I had been sitting inside for the past...
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Johann Hari: Everything You Think You Know About Addiction Is Wrong
What really causes addiction — to everything from cocaine to smart-phones? And how can we overcome it? Johann Hari has seen our current methods fail...
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Self-Help Techniques Are Not Effective For Drug Addiction
From Psychology Today: Professional substance abuse treatment far outweighs self-help techniques I love the outdoors and self-help books (shout out to the amazing Brene Brown) and I truly...
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This Is Your Brain on Drugs –
The neurological effects of addiction Addiction is a disease that affects millions of Americans. It is extremely widespread, with an estimated 8 percent to 10 percent of individuals in...
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The Self-Medicating Drug Addict –
What to do when drug addiction masks deeper and more unsettling issues. Imagine this: You go to the doctor with a serious cough, and he performs...
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Accountability In Recovery: The Importance Of The Sober Sister
I just spent HALF the day discussing my issue du jour with one sober sister then another. It began with a situation that made me...
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7 Ways To Get Over Unloving Relationships
It’s crucial to keep ourselves safe when it comes to matters of the heart, especially when you’re in recovery. Loving relationships have the capacity to bring...
