When you hang around the meeting rooms of a 12-Step program, you may hear the term “God shot”. You might cringe because the use of God makes you uncomfortable. On the contrary, it could make you feel like you belong because you have an amazing relationship with your...
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Tips to Reconnect with Your Family Before the Holidays
Addiction is a family disease that affects everyone that it comes in contact with. Once an addict gets sober, it is not likely that life will become automatically better without some work on themselves and the relationships that are important to them. Addicts in...
Best Tips to Being Present on Christmas Morning
Christmas can be a time for addicts and alcoholics in recovery to keep their distance because they can feel like they are outcasts from the rest of the world. Early sobriety can leave addicts and alcoholics seemingly raw. The feeling of unworthiness can arise in lieu...
6 Tips to Helping a Loved One Through Depression
Depression is a serious disorder that can keep someone who is struggling with it from feeling like they have a way out. You can really help your loved one because your support and encouragement can play a big role in getting them the recovery that they may need....
Drug Slang: How to Know if Your Teenager is Using
Teenagers are synonymous for trying to pull the wool over their parent’s eyes to get away with something. In this day and age of technology, teenagers have come up with their own language to be able to text and email their friends to communicate drug slang without...
Should You Be in a Relationship in Early Sobriety?
Getting into a relationship in the first year of recovery is typically frowned upon. There are so many changes going on in your life that a relationship can distract you from recovery. Addiction usually stunts a person emotionally causing their maturity level to...
How Do You Heal the Addicted Family System?
A fact of addiction - addiction affects every person that encounters it. The family of an addict is no exception. Typically, the family becomes so immune to the addiction, that the chaotic lifestyle that comes with addiction becomes the norm. Addiction creates a...
Getting Through Your First New Social Interactions Sober
Addiction and anxiety often occur together. When anxiety comes up, it is natural for an addict to pick up a drug to relieve themselves of the stress they are feeling. To remain sober, you will have to find another set of tools to rely on other than drugs or alcohol...
9 Ways to Socialize Without Drugs or Alcohol
Socializing may seem impossible without the help of drugs and alcohol to loosen you up. Getting back into the social game can get easier over time with the help of a few simple tips. Be friendly. In this day and age people are really skeptical about what others want...
5 Healthy Relationships to Develop in Treatment
In all walks of life there is a necessity of human compassion. When going into treatment you may think that you will be just fine without any having any personal interactions, but it is really important to enlist a team of prominent people that will support your...
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