How To Stick To It And Not Give Up Recovery from addiction shouldn’t be seen as a sprint, but much like a marathon. What this means is that it helps to use the wide-ranging tools and resources at your disposal to complete this long journey that leads from substance abuse into a fresh and healthy life. Taking the initial steps of throwing away the alcohol and drugs is only the beginning. It is essential to get inspired and find the necessary inspiration to start your journey. You will need to find a way to overcome our urges and avoid giving up on this journey to recovery. When first starting out, […]

Faith, Hope, and Resilience Are Key Components to Your Recovery Three of the main components that set aside addicts who achieve and maintain recovery versus those that never achieve it, or achieve it and lose it, are faith, hope and resilience. Often, these three elements of recovery can make the difference between life or death. While some of these qualities are inborn to the individual, others can learn to open to their possibilities in the recovery process; if they are willing to become vulnerable and look at life in a new way. For these people, effective and nurturing support groups play an essential role in the development of these traits. […]

Why Recovering Addicts Give Up on Their Treatment?   The addiction recovery and treatment process is one of the toughest gauntlets that any affected human will ever face. Those who have not been through addiction cannot understand how tough it is to overcome the inner demons that plague the process of self-recovery. Much of what is traumatizing a person going through addiction recovery is not only the addictive substance but also the reasons that led them to addiction in the first place. Needing to understand what these factors or demons are is an important step to getting better. However, understanding these reasons might lead to addiction recovery patients losing their […]

Exploring Anger in Addiction Recovery and Treatment Anger is an emotion deeply rooted in your insecurities. It stems from those insecurities and grows by consuming your fears and doubts. You might be angry at yourself, the people around you, or at your circumstances. Anger is mostly directed at things we cannot control or some things that look down on us. As recovering addicts, we may often find ourselves getting angry at society, societal standards, and even authorities like the police or law enforcement. Here is the hard pill you have to swallow: All of these institutions are there to help you. As much as you might think they are against […]

Dealing With Relapse Dreams During Addiction Recovery and Treatment Early on in recovery, people tend to have dreams about ‘substance using’ their previous drug of choice. Most “‘substance using’ dreams” occur within the first eight weeks of drug abstinence and will rapidly diminish from there after the first eight weeks. However, depending on a person’s habit, these dreams can last anywhere from six months to a year from their sobriety date. Sometimes these dreams indicate that the person dreaming has relapsed. Upon waking up, that person realizes it was a dream is usually relieved, but shaken up. These dreams are common in recovery, and they are often stressful. People who […]

Hobbies & Activities Used in Addiction Recovery and Treatment Treatment for addictions (both controlled substances and behavioral) often starts in a rehabilitation center. However, the roads and efforts to full recovery without relapse continue for life. People closest to addicts, including friends and families, as well as therapists and counselors, play major roles in encouraging successful sobriety and preventing exposures that may lead to a relapse. Many people have high hopes in rehabilitation centers under the assumptions that all treatments inside the facilities will move patients to total permanent recovery. While this can be true in some cases, rehabilitation centers must be considered nothing more than temporary care or addiction […]