Summer Sobriety: What To Avoid
Summer Sobriety Gets Easier If You Know What Not To Do Summer sobriety is always a challenge. Certainly, in my active drinking and using days, there was no sobriety in the summer! Summer meant special summer drinks, boozy bar-be-ques, days lost on the beach, you get the idea. But, those are lost memories and leave […]
Focus On Health For Relapse Prevention
When you focus on health for relapse prevention, you create new and healthier pathways in your brain. Suddenly you have new things to think about and new tasks to fulfill. Relapse prevention doesn’t mean just staying away from your drug, or behavior, of choice. Just like recovering from injuries, or a devastating loss, getting back […]
Why You Need Sober Sisters
Find Some Sober Sisters To Support Your Recovery Why do you need sisters, let me explain. We don’t do this journey of recovery alone. You hear that phrase all the time. What it means is, creating a recovery community for yourself is incredibly important. It can be the difference between staying sober and relapsing. For […]
Integrative Psychiatry: A Happiness Plan For Life
Learn How Integrative Psychiatry Can Help You Achieve Your Mental Health Goals Integrative psychiatry is a way to bring all aspects of your mental health together. Did you know that half of the population will need help with a mental illness at some time in their life? It’s not something to be ashamed of. Really. […]
How To Start Exercising When You Don’t Feel Like It
Thinking that this might be time to start exercising but DREADING it?? So many of us have been there. For example… At two years sober, I was miserable: 300 pounds, depressed, and I hated my body. I couldn’t bear to look in the mirror. I had zero energy and my life revolved around meetings, work, […]
What Are You Doing Now
When the decades of life are attached to a societal norm of being, looking around often answers the question, “Am I doing what I’m supposed to be doing?”