How To Stay Clean After Rehab Managing addiction requires the same lifelong vigilance as with any other chronic illness. Relapsing, or returning to substance use, does not mean you have failed at recovery. In fact, the National Institute on Drug Abuse says that 40% to...
Meditation and Mindfulness for Addiction Recovery Addiction to substances or behaviors depends on a complicated interplay of brain chemistry, genetics, environment, and the availability of substances or behaviors to an individual. It would be irresponsible, therefore,...
Is It Possible to Recover Without Treatment? There is an old saying, “Anything is possible.” Many believe this is true and perhaps it is. When it comes to addiction and whether someone can recover without treatment, a better question would be, “Is it probable”? From...
How Trauma Resolution Therapy Helps With Addiction Recovery Addiction is a disease that has its roots within people. Like many other serious diseases, it has no real cure. Instead, there are effective ways to treat and manage it. The first step for people battling...
How to Make Amends in Addiction Recovery Steps 8 and 9 of the AA recovery program are about making amends in your relationships. In Step 8, you take a look at where you’ve gone wrong with relationships in the past. Broken relationships are a common consequence of...
The Benefits of Kai Chi Do The path to recovery from addiction is often different for each individual. The recovery process includes daily, conscious decisions to not let your dependency control you, and this often includes developing techniques to help focus your...