Are You Lonely In Recovery From Addiction? Most likely, when you were in active addiction or alcoholism, you spent a decent amount of time hanging out with your party friends. You may have felt a twinge of loneliness at times, but you were able to get around others and enjoy the scene, drinking or drugging. [...]
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Addiction is a Chronic Condition – You Can’t Manage it Without Help If you’ve been hearing lately that addiction is a chronic condition, you’re not alone. Research shows that, like many other types of chronic conditions, addiction is a long-term disease that needs to be treated in order to control it. Now, you might [...]
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The Brain's Recovery from Addiction--Reversing the Damage of the Illness The brain's recovery from addiction can often be a difficult subject to address. Many people who are overcoming addictions worry about any damage their brains might have suffered as a result of drinking or using substances, and it can be painful to consider. However, understanding [...]
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The 7 Best Self-Care Tips For Early Addiction Recovery When you're in active addiction, oftentimes wants and needs go out the window because you feel overpowered by the compulsion to use your drug of choice. You want to take care of yourself, but you find it quite challenging because your mind is consistently running thoughts [...]
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Women and Substance Abuse--Risks and Issues Torso of pregnant teen or woman Women have many specific issues during addiction and chief among them is the risk of pregnancy. Pregnancy and substance abuse are a serious and high-risk combination of circumstances, posing unfortunate risks for both the woman and her baby. When pregnant women [...]
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When Your Husband Is an Angry Alcoholic If your husband is a drinker and you’re noticing him getting angrier the more he drinks, you may have some questions. Is he becoming an alcoholic? Is he an angry alcoholic? Does he need help? Am I safe? These are important questions, so let’s take a look at [...]
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Resisting Treatment? You Can Break Through to Recovery Are you resisting treatment for your addiction, or do you have an addicted loved one who is? It's a difficult spot to be in. On the one hand, treatment seems such an obvious need, but on the other, it appears that it just won't get done. A [...]
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The Recovering Addict--Stages of Healing The recovering addict has already accomplished a great deal by the time they leave rehab and has grown through a great many challenges. Recovery can be seen to start long before withdrawal and detox. Even in active addiction, we transform little by little, deciding that substance use is a problem, [...]
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Reversing Addiction’s Damage—Recovery and the Brain Recovery and the brain can often be a tricky subject. Many people who are overcoming addictions worry about any damage their brains might have suffered as a result of drinking or using substances. The brain has to heal from active addiction, and this involves reversing the damage of prolonged [...]
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A Personal Note – Learning to Let What Happens Happen This week, for a personal note, I wanted to talk about learning to let what happens happen when it comes to your addicted grown child. Okay, if you just read, and then re-read that first sentence, you’re not alone. Trust me, a few years [...]
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After Rehab – Knowing Your Options Can Help Keep Your Recovery Strong After rehab, you might be feeling like you’re never going to be “normal” again. You might leave your treatment facility feeling lost and afraid, and more than a little lonely. In fact, no matter how much support you have, you might be [...]
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Holistic Rehab--Had Enough? Maybe It's Time for a New Approach Holistic rehab isn't for everybody. For that matter, any one approach isn't for everybody either. However, it hasn't been too long since people with addictions had much of an option. Fortunately, that has changed in recent years, and we now have a diverse array of [...]
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The Meaning of Sobriety--How It Works and What Changes It Brings The meaning of sobriety can be a very personal one, of course. Everyone's journey through the pain of addiction and recovery is a deeply private one. But, then, too, there are many common experiences as well. For example, sobriety brings everyone more serenity and [...]
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Healing from Addiction—the Challenges and the Victories Healing from addiction is a multi-layered process, and it is an ongoing process for quite some time. Some even say we will always be in recovery if we have had an active addiction. The beauty of recovery is that it occurs in stages and in each stage, you [...]
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Preventing Relapse--Identifying Stages, Signals and Cues Preventing relapse is one's core priority in any recovery effort. It is the foundation and other benefits and pursuits of recovery depend upon this simple foundation. Treatment and skill building help prepare you for the tough times of sobriety. You can prepare well at the outset of your efforts, [...]
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Are You a Functioning Alcoholic? There are a lot of high functioning alcoholics out there. Though you may never know it by their outward appearance, inside they are slowly falling apart, wishing they could stop or at the very least – cut down on drinking. Functioning alcoholics are a bit different than non-functioning alcoholics. For [...]
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A Personal Note – Will Moving Away Make Your Grown Child’s Addiction Go Away? So, on this cold January day, I’d like to write a personal note about whether or not moving away will make your grown child’s addiction go away, and whether or not this is the best approach to take in your [...]
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Codependency, Addiction, And The Victim Mentality Codependency is defined as an unhealthy attachment to another person. There are many characteristics associated with codependency, such as caretaking, people pleasing in order to feel appreciated, enabling, feeling insecure, fearing abandonment, controlling, manipulating, unable to accept reality, and more. Another characteristic of codependency is having a victim mentality. [...]
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Progress in Overcoming Addiction—It’s a Process Progress in overcoming addiction is often hard to see. For you, that is. Typically, others can see the progress we are making much more clearly. That’s because they’re not inside your nervous system trying to navigate all the changes you’re going through. You can look like the picture [...]
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No Hope of Recovery – Why So Many Who Struggle with Addictions Feel this Way Many people who struggle with addictions worry that they have no hope of recovery. They feel like they will always be stuck in the same cycle of using or drinking, trying to quit, doing okay with it, and then [...]
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How You Can Help An Addicted Loved One There are many people across the nation concerned about their loved ones drinking or drugging behavior. Whether it's alcohol, drugs like pain pills or Xanax, or illegal drugs like cocaine or heroin, they're just not sure what to do to help their loved one break free from [...]
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Inside a Substance Disorder—the Mechanics of the Illness A Substance Disorder is an illness—what we commonly call substance abuse or addiction. It is diagnosable by a standard list of symptoms medically, and its ‘remission’, or recovery from it, is diagnosed by the absence of those symptoms. A Substance Disorder (or more accurately, a Substance Use [...]
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Healing the Family After Addiction Healing the family damage of addiction can feel overwhelming to everyone. Each loved one will have suffered from active addiction with their own particular struggles and emotional pain. And, no two family members will have had the same reactions although they shared many situations and events. Each Family Member [...]
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8 Ways to Prevent Relapse on Drugs and Alcohol Alcohol and drug addiction in the United States is at an all-time high. It's tough to watch the nightly news anymore without hearing something about the opiate epidemic going on, or lives being destroyed on account of alcohol or drugs. This is no longer the elephant in [...]
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What Are The Most Addictive Drugs? While there are varying answers to the question, “What are the most addictive drugs?” many people will tell you that there are a handful of drugs that rank up there as drugs to never, ever try. Why? Because they are so addictive and quite deadly, to say the least. [...]
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What’s Happening with Addiction Treatment Now – New Developments You Should Know About If you’re wondering what’s happening with addiction treatment now, you’re not alone. Sometimes, there are tremendous leaps in the progress we make in this area, and sometimes, things seem to sit pretty still. However, if you’re one of the millions who [...]
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A Personal Note – Will Your Grown Addicted Child Ever Really be Free? So, today, for a personal note, I wanted to talk a little bit about my grown addicted daughter and her situation. More specifically, I wanted to talk about a conversation I just had with my dad last night about whether there [...]
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Recovery Efforts and Your Choice to Overcome Addiction Recovery efforts sometimes fail, and there can be several reasons. A significant one is that you just aren’t onboard. Sometimes people go through the motions, putting their bodies in the right place, but leaving their hearts and wills out of it. Lots of times this is [...]
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A Solid Recovery Plan—Overcoming Your Addiction A solid recovery plan can help you finally overcome your addiction. It’s not an easy process, of course, but with a good plan, the right help and commitment, you can turn things around. You can regain your physical and mental health, and begin to build a happy and [...]
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Hiding Addiction – Why Your Loved One Does It Hiding addiction is very common. Throughout most of our lives, we encounter people every day that are struggling to hide their addictions and function normally. It’s sad when you think about it, and scary. What if it turns out that your doctor is hiding his [...]
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Aspects of Denial--the Many Faces of Addiction's Core Symptom Aspects of denial ripple through an addicted person's life in various forms and some are well-disguised enough to be overlooked. Denial is a core characteristic of any addictive process, and in the most severe forms of an illness can be quite diverse in the way it [...]
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Addicted Thinking--The Impact of Addiction on Thoughts and Beliefs Addicted thinking involves the thought patterns and thought habits that are common during an addictive process. Often these are present before addiction begins, and are part of what makes a person vulnerable to abuse substances, but many develop them within the course of addiction. They also [...]
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Relationships in Addiction, and Recovery Relationships in addiction and recovery are common issues that everyone has to address in the process of getting better. Our active addiction affects relationships across a wide range. And, really, no matter what the interactions we have with other people during active addiction, there is some degree of difficulty. Of [...]
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Who is at Risk to Become an Alcoholic? Alcohol use is promoted in just about every venue around the United States. There are alcohol commercials on television that portray drinking as being America's favorite pastime. There are ads in magazines and billboards on the side of the streets, and plenty of people talking about how [...]
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Working While Overcoming An Addiction – Can You Do It? When it comes to working while overcoming an addiction, many people wonder if they should even give it a try. After all, who needs the stress and anxiety of a job, especially while getting clean and sober, right? The thing is, we all need [...]
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Is Stress a Predictor of Relapse? Stress seems to be at an all-time high these days, with many people complaining that they just don't have enough time to get all the things done that they need to. Some work stressful jobs or have heavy loads in school. Others have families to tend to, financial struggles, [...]
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Chronic Relapse After Rehab – What Can You Do to Stop it? If you’ve been to rehab and you still find that you’re struggling with chronic relapse, you should know that you’re not alone. Thousands of people who have gone to addiction treatment still find that they are struggling with relapsing again and again. [...]
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Why Can’t I Get Sober on My Own? I'm going to stop drinking tomorrow. Perhaps you’ve said this more than one time, only to find yourself picking up another drink within a few days or a few weeks. It's not uncommon for the average to heavy drinker to have the desire to stop drinking or [...]
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A Personal Note – When Your Addicted Grown Child has a Child This week, at the beginning of this amazing New Year, for my personal note, I wanted to talk about when your addicted grown child has a child. Why? Well, because at the moment, my precious granddaughter is being her typical four-year-old self. [...]
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Consequences of Addiction—the Negative Impact of Substance Abuse The consequences of addiction are pervasive if substance abuse continues long enough. Eventually, there is no realm of our lives exempt from its negative impact. Typically, the consequences begin slowly and accumulate over time as a Substance Use Disorder progresses from mild to moderate and eventually severe. [...]
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Addiction in the Family--Families in Crisis Whenever there is an addiction in the family, that family is in crisis. And, many families live in addiction-related crisis for many years. The stress and strain on all family members are chronic and severe when they live in the same home with an addicted loved one. Also, when [...]
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