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You took the steps necessary to become clean and sober for many reasons, but one major and all-encompassing motivator was likely a desire to live a healthier life.   Now that you are well on your way down your path to recovery, what can you do next to become even...

Unfortunately, you relapsed.  Right now, you are probably blaming yourself and think you are a complete and total failure.   You are likely scared and confused, and you don’t know what to do next.   The first and most important thing you need to know in this moment,...

Although the word routine has in some ways become synonymous with boring, the fact of the matter is that routine is important, and is helpful to us in so many ways.  Developing routines for different parts of your day can be a great tool to you in recovery.   Not only...

It’s likely that when you were deep in the darkness of your addiction that the first thing you thought of or did when you woke up in the morning was get high, get drunk, or - at the very least - immediately begin thinking about when and how you could obtain your drug...

It is imperative that all parents talk to their kids about substance use, abuse, and addiction, but as someone in recovery, it’s especially important that you do so.   There is good news from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA_; their 2017 Monitoring the...

Pregnancy and impending motherhood is a very exciting time in any woman’s life.   However, if a woman is battling drug or alcohol addiction or a combination of both, having a child on the way can be stressful for the mother-to-be, and continued substance abuse can be...

Congratulations! You successfully completed a drug rehabilitation program and now you are headed home.  After years of battling an addiction you did it!  You got clean and sober, and you feel so much better already.   Now it’s time to reintegrate back into everyday...

Addiction recovery certainly isn’t an easy road.   Now that you have broken free of your active addiction to drugs or alcohol, you will undoubtedly still face obstacles and challenges every day that will threaten your ability to remain on the right path.  Every...