Addiction recovery treatment provides skills to help someone stay sober. Each skill learned while in treatment is like a piece of armor protecting you from relapse. If you only have one piece of armor, there are many other places unprotected and exposing you to the dangers that accompany drug and alcohol misuse. Therefore, the more armor you put on, the …
Few of us ever experienced real happiness or joy until we embraced a life of sobriety. We came to realize that our conception of happiness was skewed– we had been confusing the pleasure and relief provided by drugs and alcohol with genuine happiness. Our reliance on external pleasure and validation became our greatest source of motivation. In sobriety, however, …
Stress and anxiety can be powerful in the early stages of recovery. We often feel overwhelmed by our shame of the past and our fears of the future. However, mindfulness can help. The practice of mindfulness can help alleviate our fears by bringing our attention fully into the present moment. We can incorporate mindfulness into our meditation as a means …
The idea that we can overcome addiction and alcoholism by admitting powerlessness may seem contradictory. After all, we need to gain power over our lives if we are to be free from the cycle of addiction. Surrender, it may seem, would be allowing ourselves to give into the power that substances have in our lives. However, when we finally …
