Addiction Treatment

If you’re on the path to recovery, you may have been to rehab several times already. All of them probably seemed the same too, just going over the 12 steps to recovery. Falling off the wagon is frustrating, and can leave you wondering if something is wrong with you. If this sounds like you, you…

Individuals who excessively use alcohol or drugs tend to wonder, How do I truly know whether I am an addict? In some instances, they are experiencing harmful side effects of their abuse. In other instances, family or friends have been warning them about their substance abuse addiction. Maybe this is a situation that you are currently facing…

I remember as a child my father trying to teach me about the principle of momentum.  He said he did an experiment in his younger life where he was able to use a cork on a string to get a bowling ball on a cable to go into a wide sway.  The experiment involved the cork swinging…

Rebuilding your life after the chaotic destruction of being in a serious and life-threatening addiction can be overwhelming.  There are many relationships to repair.  There are likely relationships that are unhealthy that need to be severed.  There is amends to be made.  Thinking of all of that at once can be too much at times.  Your life can surely be…

One of the biggest driving forces behind any addiction, any self-destructive behaviors, is fear.  Fear is an ugly monster.  Fear makes us afraid to live.  Fear makes us believe that traumatic experiences we endured at the hand of another person are our fault alone, which is grossly untrue.  Fear drives our addictions because we engage and…

There are several components of an effective alcohol and drug rehabilitation program. Alongside detoxification, exercise, and therapy, nutrition plays a significant role. Individuals who are in active addiction may not always maintain a good diet. Alcohol and drugs affect the way that the body processes what these individuals do consume. Top-notch rehab facilities often offer…

In our “real” lives, before our addictions, we probably didn’t really care to or even think about our emotions much, or what was going on in our brain.  If we were hurt, we cried or got mad.  And then we got over it, and we moved on.  Taking the time to sit and really open up our minds…

It is definitely a universal truth that though the past can never be changed, we still think about it constantly.  We remember embarrassing moments, or scary events, or instances where we wish we could have should have want to change why didn’t I say that why did I do that and just ARGH! And while…

What is the potential of a human?  I don’t think anyone really knows.  It is an unanswerable question because there is always more we can give, more we can do.  Does this unbridled human potential apply to every person, or only to some elite few?  We do have the answer to that question.  Each reader…

There is no beating around the bush.  Medical detoxification is not easy.  It isn’t a walk in the park.  Heck, it isn’t even a walk in the park during a raging blizzard. But, most good things, most necessary things, don’t usually come very easily, do they?  And ridding your body of the toxins, the poison that…

The role of a mother is no small thing.  It can be a heavy burden but can come with immeasurable rewards.  Nothing will challenge a woman more and nothing will reward her more.  From the moment a child is born, a mother takes on the feeling of having a huge responsibility but is given the…

For those that haven’t experienced addiction, the ensuing treatment, and the struggle to overcome said addiction, may believe that “getting better” means simply deciding they want to, or taking an antidepressant, or maybe talking to a therapist a few times. Sadly, it isn’t that easy. Often, especially with more severe or persistent addictions, inpatient or…

After conducting a poll given to more than a hundred recovered individuals that suffered from addictions ranging from alcohol, drugs, eating disorders, self-harm, and sex, respectively.  They were asked to list, in order, their top 10 reasons to stay in recovery, number 1 being their strongest motivator.  The results were eye-opening, at times quite hilarious,…

Individuals who are suffering from drug or alcohol addiction may not fully realize just how important that their diet is particularly during the early stages of their recovery. Individuals who are battling addiction are accustomed to abusing their bottles. Most of these individuals have also fallen into a very unhealthy lifestyle based on their addiction….