Healing the Ravages of Addiction: The Body, Part I

Healing the ravages of addiction is not something that can be accomplished quickly, but it can be done, done well, and bring a person back to full health. I'll focus on some ways to heal the body during addiction recovery in this post. As in most of my posts, I'll be looking at early recovery [...]

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Talking Through Your Problems

When it comes to your recovery from addiction there are many things that you are going to go through. There are many problems that are going to come up that you will have to solve. When problems are left to just sit during a recovery from addiction this causes many problems and often leads to [...]

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Is Making Decisions Disappointing Others?

During your recovery from addiction you are going to have to start making healthier decisions in your life. One of the first healthier decisions that you made in your life was to get sober. This is an excellent decision and you will have plenty of others to make in your life and in recovery from [...]

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Headaches in Addiction Recovery

When you are in recovery from your addiction there are going to be times when you are not feeling well, there are going to be times when you might be stressed out, there are going to be times when you are anxious, there are going to be times when you just flat out have a [...]

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Handling a Break-Up in Recovery

Living a recovering lifestyle is a very amazing thing. You will have so many benefits from living this type of lifestyle instead of the addictive lifestyle that you used to live. However, one of the many reasons why some recovering addicts relapse is because they assume that now that they are in recovery from their [...]

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Intervention Letter Writing Tips II

Intervention letter writing can be a heart wrenching exercise. It's an attempt to defeat the denial of a loved one who is inside active addiction. Interventions, due to their nature, cannot be spontaneous. They're often a last effort by family and friends to help an addict realize that they are loved, cared for, but that [...]

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Tips For Writing An Intervention Letter I

An intervention is a meeting between a person whose addiction is deepening and those who care for that person, in an attempt to help the addict see the need for treatment. Oftentimes in an intervention, people each read a brief letter they've written to the addiction. The letter is written ahead of time, prepared and [...]

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Topamax for Alcohol and Cocaine Abuse

Topamax is an antiseizure medication that's also given for bipolar disorder. Topamax (topiramate) has also been the subject of a lot of study for its use in the treatment of cocaine and alcohol abuse. The studies have been thorough and indicate a moderate effectiveness. It's not a magic solution for sure, but it does hold [...]

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Letting Go of Procrastination and Its Root Causes

Letting go of procrastination and its root causes may seem impossible, but this is usually because you have been floundering so long you simply can't imagine being free. Procrastination is indeed the doldrums. We lose wind in our sails and simply sit in the ocean helplessly and after awhile, hopelessly. If you can, however, push [...]

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Resolving Procrastination

Resolving procrastination seems daunting, but there are so many avenues of approach that it is really more manageable a task than most would ever believe. Having many tactics and strategies that are effective in pushing procrastination out of your life makes it easier. If you tire of one effort, you can rotate in something else, [...]

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Shifting Responsibility Is A Bad Sign

Shifting responsibility, or out and out ducking it, is a sign someone might using. If the individual has been clean and has never used before, consider their personality. Do they normally blame others for their failures, and do they give "luck" the credit when they succeed? If so, that person may have an external locus [...]

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Regret’s Heavy Burdens

Regret's heavy burdens ache to be faced in recovery, and face them we will. However, once acknowledged and honored, we must move past our regrets. Regrets are always centered in the past; they rarely help us move forward. Sometimes regret can provide an inspiration to devote ourselves to recovery, to being better people, but when [...]

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Poisonous Contempt Kills Recovery

Contempt, poisonous contempt springs my rage triggers like nothing else. I'm more likely to lash out when I'm mocked or subjected to contempt. That may be completely understandable. After all, when someone is using contempt, there's definite malice involved. An angry or aggressive response to being treated maliciously seems like a natural response, and it [...]

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Social Media, Your Child, and Alcohol Advertising

Social media is defined as "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content." Platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube allow people to create accounts online, share posts (thoughts, ideas, feelings), photos and videos.  These social media sites are [...]

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When Recovery Seems Like Doing Time

When recovery seems like doing time it's a painful and grueling experience. Many people get to treatment 'kicking and screaming', resisting the whole notion of being addicted and needing help. They get to rehab various ways, of course, and for various reasons. Some feel coerced by spouses and the threat of losing their marriages and [...]

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Small Changes Are Good Changes

Small changes are good changes. Perhaps they are among the best of all changes we can carry out. Of course, there's a huge change right at the beginning of recovery: we become abstinent of drugs and/or alcohol. But of the other hundreds of changes we make in our lives, our character, slow change is the [...]

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Avoiding a Relapse

Avoiding a Relapse Relapse prevention planning is a key to success in maintaining sobriety from drugs and alcohol. A relapse prevention plan is usually created at beginning stages of recovery. A relapse prevention plan is essential whether you are in the beginning stages of sobriety or have maintained sobriety for many years. It is important [...]

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One Step at a Time–Recovery Efforts

Recovery, even detox, is so much easier than many things done in active addiction. One step at a time is how anything is accomplished. The same is true of recovery whether you are in a 12 Step program or not. It works and it's reliable, but it's a formula that many of us [...]

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What Recovery Looks Like: A Closer Look into Overcoming Addiction

Many people wonder what recovery looks like. Does it have scars and marks? Is it broken, neglected teeth and a barely trapped edginess? Is recovery angry and solitary, or is it something more social? Since we aren’t sure what recovery looks like, many of us don’t understand that overcoming addiction is all around us. It [...]

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You Shouldn’t Walk Away from your Addicted Loved One No Matter What: Here’s Why

If you’re wondering why you shouldn’t walk away from your addicted loved one, you have good reason. When we get to this point with our loved one and his addiction, there have probably been quite a few situations that drove us to feel the way we feel. It can be tempting to walk away and [...]

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