Making Quiet Time Count
You always hear about the importance of staying busy during recovery and finding new healthy hobbies to help keep cravings at bay. But what about quiet time? Taking a few minutes each day to ...
Why Hobbies Are an Important Part of Your Stay Sober Plan
Whatever your age and wherever you are in your recovery, hobbies can provide a healthy distraction and ensure your new sober life is a fulfilling life. One of the perks of getting sober is ...
Marijuana Use Growing Among Baby Boomers
With more lax attitudes toward marijuana use and growing legalization, it’s perhaps not too surprising that more middle-aged adults are using pot. According to a recent study, 9 percent of adults aged 50-64 and ...
Helping Loved Ones Help Your Addiction Recovery
Addiction is often called a “family disease” for good reason. This is because it impacts the person struggling with a substance use disorder as well as his or her friends and family. Just as ...
5 Self-Care Activities for a Better Addiction Recovery
Even if you’ve already heard this, it’s worth repeating: Self care isn’t selfish. In fact, it’s a matter of survival and essential for healing your mind, body and spirit during recovery. Not sure whereto start? ...
Codependency: What You Need to Know
Codependency, also known as “relationship addiction,” is an emotional and behavioral condition that prevents individuals from having healthy, mutually satisfying relationships. It’s a relationship problem – but not with someone else, with yourself. People ...
Alcohol Abuse Leads to Lack of Emotional Communication
It’s not news that heavy drinking can lead to poor communication and relationships problems. This is because people with alcohol use disorder have been found to struggle with non-verbal communication, including the ability to ...
How to Redirect Negative Thoughts
Negative thinking can slow addiction recovery. This is because negative thoughts – either about the past, present or future – can get in the way of the hope and optimism you need to stay ...
The Benefits of Gender-Specific Addiction Treatment
The path to addiction and journey toward recovery isn’t one-size-fits-all – and, in fact, males and females tend to develop, experience and recover from substance use disorders differently. So it makes sense that their ...
Women and the Opioid Epidemic
Between 1999 and 2016, overdose deaths from opioid prescriptions increased by 583% for women and 404% for men. In 2012, 28 percent of pregnant women entering addiction treatment reported misusing prescription opioids. What’s more, ...
