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HALT Check: Listen To Your Body’s Needs
STOP! Collaborate and listen... okay, but like, seriously. Not in a bad 90's rap way. More like a shhh, your body is trying to speak to you way. A HALT ...
Safety Blanket: WRAP Therapy Prevents Relapse
Imagine yourself as a cozy human burrito. Softly enveloped in comforting blankets that wash away the fear and anxiety that tug at your soul. It's warm, and it's safe. Suddenly, ...
Riding the Pink Cloud: How Relapse Strikes Back
At first, emerging from years (or even decades) of a drug or alcohol-induced haze is exhilarating. Reality hasn't quite settled in yet, you're feeling rejuvenated, and being reintroduced to one's ...
Narcotics vs Psych Meds: The Chill Pill Breakdown
Opinions. The best and worst thing about them is that we all have our own. Unfortunately, many people use the idea of subjectivity as a defense to subvert certain truths. ...
Exercise in Recovery: 7 Fun Ways to Ride Bikes Sober
Exercise in recovery is one of the best ways to make sobriety into a lifestyle. With our in-patient program, we’ve found that men in particular respond very well when introduced …
6 Tips for Dealing with AA as an Introvert
Statistically, your personality type doesn't have much bearing on whether you'll be an addict or alcoholic. Introverts and extroverts experience problems with substance abuse across the board. But your willingness ...
Don’t Bottle Up: How to Mourn Losing Your Drug of Choice
You know what’s worse than having to accept change? Hearing platitudes about the necessity of accepting change. There are few things more tiresome than a condescending rando putting on their ...
Addiction & Suicide: Becoming Numb Gives Power to Depression
My body has been viscerally seized by the news of a suicide twice in my life. The first was a Thursday almost twenty years ago on May 6th, 1999, when ...
Pseudo-Exceptionalism: Special Snowflake Syndrome is Deadly for Addicts
Millennials get flack for a lot of crap: failure to launch, job hopping, wanting to have a career that is meaningful (pfft, ridiculous right?)... but of all those, the "I'm ...