How Do I Not Feel So Lonely?

lonely

Feeling Lonely Will Happen In Life So Learn To Manage It Now I knew that loneliness wasn’t good for you. Still, it surprised me to learn that feeling lonely ongoing can add to cognitive decline and ultimately be as dangerous as smoking cigarettes. I’m not making that up, there’s a study that says so. We […]

6 Ways To Feel Good With A Recovery Lifestyle

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The Recovery Lifestyle Ensures More Happiness Less Pain Why should you consider adding some new thoughts and activities to your life in recovery? Take it from me, my life got significantly better when I stopped trying to be a part of a life and world that didn’t suit my sober life and I created an […]

Ikigai: Follow Your Bliss the Japanese Way

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Want To Come Alive? Ikigai Means To Follow Your Bliss What does it mean to follow your bliss? Ikigai is the Japanese way to find meaning in your life. Joseph Campbell, who was my professor in college, used to tell us to follow your bliss. The whole idea was lost on me all those years […]

What To Say When Someone’s Upset

What to say when someone's upset

Do You Wonder What To Say When Someone’s Upset What to say when someone’s upset is not what you think, and your kindness may not be appreciated. Have you ever offered help when someone’s upset and irritated them? What is help anyway? I admit that I don’t want people to tell me what to think […]

Recovery Fitness Is A Lifestyle Not Just Exercise

Recovery fitness is more than exercise

What the hell is recovery fitness? I think recovery fitness is a healthy attitude about your physical goals as part of your life in recovery. Recovery fitness certainly isn’t just running, lifting, or exercise, although exercise is an excellent way to get those feel-good hormones going again. Exercise is what many people in recovery turn […]

What Makes You Healthy Winner 2021

What Makes You Healthy Contest

What Makes You Healthy Contest Winner Tells Her Story By Tina Tran Freshman UCF (University Of Central Florida): It has been almost two years since I first heard about Reach Out Recovery’s What Makes You Healthy High School Contest. The “What Makes You Healthy” High School Art/Media Contest started in 2021, and I was among […]