Esteemable Acts: Being On-Time

Esteemable Acts: Being On-Time

Getting sober allows people to look back at what they did before and make changes. Life skills often have to be relearned and implemented to assist in staying sober. You may be wondering what life skills have to do with sobriety, but they are vital. Doing the right thing does not come naturally for someone […]

Ways to Feel More Comfortable in Your Skin

Ways to Feel More Comfortable in Your Skin

Drug and alcohol addiction is typically provoked by someone who is looking for instant gratification to cope with the discomforts of life. Drinking and using can initially take the edge off. Tolerance continues to grow by continuously chasing a stronger buzz until it just does not work any longer. Once the discomfort starts to ensue […]

Why Living a Double Life in Recovery Won’t Work

Why Living a Double Life in Recovery Won’t Work

Some people are so far gone in their addiction that everyone knows what is going on. For others, they are so good at hiding what they are doing; they can show their nice side without revealing their naughty side. They have to work hard to avoid showing others the truth about their addiction, creating their […]

How Do I Set Realistic Expectations?

How Do I Set Realistic Expectations?

Recovery from drug and alcohol addiction is a rewarding process that could get overwhelming really fast. Working a recovery program entails many different variables that are all meant to work cohesively together. To gain the right perspective and the right tools will take some patience and effort to understand, especially with how they will benefit […]

Tips to Handle Your Cravings

Tips to Handle Your Cravings

For someone who is addicted to drugs and alcohol, there is an urgency to curb cravings. With no cure for addiction readily available, the cravings become an obsession that becomes part of a person’s subconsciousness. When you are feeling happy, you want to use and drink to celebrate. When you are angry, drugs and alcohol […]

How Can I Have Heart in Recovery?

How Can I Have Heart in Recovery?

People in recovery have their own language, which has been coined the “Language of the Heart”. Ironically, those who have made their way into the rooms of recovery are there because they were searching for love and acceptance in the bottom of a bottle, or through the use of mind-altering drugs. Many of them have […]

Step Seven: Embracing Humility

Step Seven: Embracing Humility

Working your way up to Step Seven is not an easy feat. From the total surrender of drugs and alcohol, all the way to identifying your character defects to give up to a higher power takes intentional effort. Although Step Seven has the least amount of wording in the literature compared to other steps, the […]

Why is a Homegroup so Important?

Why is a Homegroup so Important?

Recovery offers you a few different tools to help keep you sober for the long haul. One of the immediate suggestions is to find a homegroup to attend regularly. A homegroup is a recovery meeting that you frequent to become part of a group. Sustaining friendships and taking commitments are the aim of the homegroup […]

Why Independence Day Means That Much More in Recovery

Why Independence Day Means That Much More in Recovery

Freedom is the theme in July. Starting with July 4th celebrations, the momentum continues as people display American flags, host barbeques on the weekends, and bask in the summertime freedoms. Being an American should be celebrated because we are privileged to live in the land of the free. Another freedom that can be appreciated is […]

Will I Ever Be Able to Change My Inner Dialogue?

Inner Dialogue

The discourse in your head is probably rated R for reprehensible. You talk to yourself worse than you would ever allow anyone else to talk to your loved one or even yourself. The dialogue in your head is really negative, which ironically leaves you feeling like it will be impossible to change your thoughts. Remembering […]

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