Planning ahead for a vacation in recovery can help you maintain your sobriety while you’re away from home. A vacation is supposed to be a blissful time of rest and relaxation away from everyday stressors. But for a person in recovery, the thought of taking a vacation can induce anxiety. A vacation...
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New Diversions: 9 Unique Hobbies for Recovering Addicts
When you’re first getting sober it may seem like you have a lot of free time on your hands. Since boredom is a trigger for recovering addicts, it’s important that you find new hobbies that are fun and distracting to fill all those empty hours. Luckily, we’ve got some great suggestions for hobbies...
Shane Johnson’s Bike Across Canada to Raise Awareness
Shane Johnson’s plan to ride across Canada started just over a year ago. “My life leading up to this journey has been full of depression, anxiety, a loss of purpose, pain both physical and mental” Shane says. Before COVID happened, Shane was feeling lost. He hated his job, was working too much...
Managing Holiday Expectations with a Loved One in Active Addiction.
As we approach the holiday season, now is a great time to remind ourselves that family members and loved ones of those that are in active alcohol and/or drug addiction or someone in addiction recovery may need our extra support. We need to help make the holiday celebrations less stressful...
25 FREE Things to do in Vancouver
We love this city, and we love free stuff, so it seemed logical to combine the two and compile this list of 25 free things to do in Vancouver. When in recovery, keeping busy is important to keep your mind of your addiction as well as remind yourself what...
Amending old, and Making new Friends, When in Recovery
Now that you’re in recovery it’s time to become even more intentional about the type of people with whom you spend time. As you seek to establish healthy patterns in your life — and to leave behind the destruction of the past — it’s essential to surround yourself with...
Community Involvement: 5 Tips for “Getting out there”
Your time in treatment has given you a wealth of tools to use for engaging in relationships. Relationships are the foundation of making meaning in life. Now that you are on the path of recovery from substance abuse or a mental illness, you have found a new meaning in...
Taking Care of YOU: Healing Your Body After Addiction Recovery
Originally posted from Lucida Treatment. Recovery from drug or alcohol addiction is a long journey and getting clean is a huge accomplishment. The impact of drugs on the brain and mental health are well documented, but years of drug abuse can also take a heavy toll on the body....
In His own Words: Jason Love Shares His Recovery Story with Revolution Recovery.
Some may say being hopeless would be a bad place, but once your completely and totally hopeless and have lost everything till you had what you thought was nothing and then lost the nothingness you were still clenching too, you may be ready to start your journey of recovery....
Social Challenges: Making New Friends in Recovery
The secret to a successful recovery isn’t just to stop using: It’s to create a new life where it’s harder to turn back to your old way and easier to move forward. Without letting go to your old life, you will find it more difficult to accept the support...