Hi, I’m an alcoholic and my name is Jeff. I wasn’t comfortable saying those words for a very long time. I didn’t want them to be true. I didn’t want to be different from my friends and family. I didn’t want to have a disease. Growing up needing nothing,...
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10 Tips for a Sober New Years
According to a 2011 feature in TIME magazine, New Year’s Eve ranks number one in the list of the “booziest” holidays of the year. It is the holiday when people consume the most alcohol, and is also one of the holidays with the highest rates of drunk driving accidents...
Meditation: A Powerful Tool for Recovery
In 12-Step recovery, Step 11 is devoted to the use of prayer and meditation. Early in recovery, many addicts will read a book that has a spiritual message and call that meditation. While they may devote long periods of time to the practice of prayer, not all addicts in...
How to Set (and Achieve) Your Recovery Goals
While staying on the course of a long-term objective can be challenging for almost everyone, a goal to change bad habits often carries more weight for an individual recovering from addiction. Many, if not all, of the goal setting people in recovery make are centered around the ultimate goal of staying sober....
Depression: Sober but Sad in Recovery
Many addicts are well aware of what it takes to get off drugs. Acute withdrawal can include every uncomfortable symptom imaginable, including anxiety, sweating, shaking, insomnia, irritability, vomiting and diarrhea. This acute withdrawal phase can last up to two weeks. But it ends. What happens next, in the weeks...
Let’s Get Real About Mental Health and Addiction
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Your Addiction Recovery: Healing your Body, Mind, and Spirit
Addiction is a devastating disease which affects the addicted person in body, mind and spirit. After receiving treatment for an addiction, the work for the addicted person is only beginning. The addicted person has to find a way to heal from all the pain and anguish that the addiction...
Step 4: Truth
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. “This step requires self-examination that can be uncomfortable, but honesty is essential in this process. The key is to identify any areas of past regret, embarrassment, guilt or anger.” In the first three steps of the 12-step program, you’ve admitted that...
Relapse Triggers: Recognizing and Avoiding the “Slip”.
Staying sober requires more than just awareness. It takes a commitment to staying vigilant during good times, but also during times of triggers that can bring on a relapse. Some relapse triggers are obvious, such as frequenting local bars or wandering around the neighbourhoods you know have drug activity....
Step 3: Surrendering to a Higher Power
“Make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.” 12-Step programs don’t require a belief in God, just a power greater than oneself. Individuals get to choose what that power is. A Higher Power can be the AA program itself...