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COVID Relapse: Do I Need to Tell Anyone?

Jamie Strassenburg October 29, 2020 Addiction, Featured, Health and Wellness, Recovery Leave a Comment

It’s getting closer to the end of 2020, and COVID is still raging stronger than we expected back when this all started back in March. Cases decline enough for us …

Coming Out of the Fog: Drug-Induced Numbness vs. Sober Awareness

New Start Recovery October 15, 2020 Addiction, Drug Addiction, Recovery Leave a Comment

Imagine not being able to see. You’re surrounded by a fog that only exists for you. Your arms and legs feel heavy and your body feels weird. It doesn’t exactly ...

Not Wanting to Hear Your Own Thoughts

Jamie Strassenburg August 28, 2020 Addiction, Health and Wellness, Trauma Leave a Comment

Recovering addicts often reflect on what it must be like to be a “normal” person, who primarily deals with the negativity of outside stimulus like, “Oh hey, my family is …

Reasons Why People Leave Treatment Early (And How to Prevent It)

New Start Recovery August 21, 2020 Detox, For Loved Ones, Recovery, Relapse, Residential Leave a Comment

If you’ve watched any medical shows, you’ve probably heard the term “AMA” before. It means going against medical advice and it’s a term in real life too. For example, paramedics ...

Poor Self-Esteem: How to Build, Not Break

Jamie Strassenburg July 31, 2020 Health and Wellness, Recovery Leave a Comment

Self-loathing scratches. But for those who struggle with substance abuse, the instinctual reaction to it is not natural repulsion like we’d expect against the scratches of nails on a chalkboard. …

Willpower Isn’t Enough to Stay Sober

Jamie Strassenburg July 16, 2020 Health and Wellness, Recovery, Relapse Leave a Comment

It’s become particularly evident lately that we live in a country which places an exaggerated value on individual choice. The mindset has reached the point of, “Do what you want, ...

Flattening the COVID Mental Health Curve

Jamie Strassenburg July 10, 2020 Addiction, Culture, Featured, Health and Wellness Leave a Comment

One step forward, two steps back: we’ve now passed the three-month mark of widespread mandated social isolation. Unfortunately, COVID cases continue to climb as we slowly reopen the economy. So not only are businesses starting ...

What Happens to Recovery After COVID?

Jamie Strassenburg June 18, 2020 Culture, Health and Wellness, Recovery, Relapse Leave a Comment

Extended solitude changes the way your brain functions. After several months of quarantine, many recovering addicts find themselves returning to old destructive thought patterns that they worked very hard in …

Can Recovering Addicts Be Okay with Being Alone?

Jamie Strassenburg June 8, 2020 Addiction, Health and Wellness, Recovery, Relapse Leave a Comment

Very few people expected quarantine to last as long as it has. The news came about pretty suddenly, and within the same week, states were shuttering down non-essential businesses across …

Why are Empaths Prone to Addiction?

Jamie Strassenburg May 29, 2020 Addiction, Health and Wellness Leave a Comment

Empathy, which is the capacity to share and understand emotional states of others in reference to oneself, plays a critical role in human interpersonal engagement and social interaction. It facilitates ...

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