Archive for the ‘Recovery’ Category

Finding Love after Sexual Abuse and Addiction

Sexual abuse and addiction are a double whammy. Which came first can seem irrelevant in the scheme of things when it’s your life under consideration. All you know is that you have a world of hurt, and it’s easier to escape in booze or pills or shooting dope than to face the horrid reality that your...
August 20th, 2010 | Recovery | Read More

Nutrition in Addiction Recovery: How Eating Right Helps You Heal

Healing in recovery requires paying attention to many different things, and nutrition is right up there at the top of the list. In fact, eating right can help speed recovery by giving your body the essential ingredients it needs to maintain or restore energy, elevate mood, and keep vital organs functioning...
August 5th, 2010 | Recovery | Read More

How To Get Your Life Back In Recovery from Addiction

One of the most worrisome aspects of completing addiction treatment and going into recovery is the thought that you may not be able to get your life back. With all the coping mechanisms and knowledge about your addiction fresh in your head, you wonder if your life will be anything other than a dreary...
July 29th, 2010 | Recovery | Read More

Recovery Is Possible For Young People Who Are Addicted

With an estimated 10 million young people addicted to alcohol or substances, according to recent data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), it may be logical to conclude that America’s future is in peril. It is true that addicts who do not get treatment are...
June 16th, 2010 | Recovery | Read More

What To Do When Cravings Resurface

If you’ve been going along in recovery for quite some time, you probably feel secure in how well you’re able to handle whatever life throws at you. That’s a good thing, and a sense of self-confidence that all addicts in recovery strive for. Then, let’s say, out of the blue, you’re...
May 27th, 2010 | Recovery | Read More

Stressors That Trigger Relapse

Relapse often occurs to those in recovery, but it is not automatic – and it is preventable. In fact, relapse prevention training is generally included in the final phase of active treatment before the client is released from the program. But, just because you may have had relapse prevention modules...
May 17th, 2010 | Recovery | Read More

Anxiety during Withdrawal from Cocaine

Relapse is common among those struggling to overcome an addiction to cocaine. Besides the physical ailments associated with discontinuing use of a drug, often psychological factors cause the drug user to be susceptible to a relapse.
April 12th, 2010 | Recovery | Read More

What If You Really Hate Yourself – and Your Addiction?

When you rise up out of your stupor or take a brief hiatus from your compulsive behavior long enough to look at your face in the mirror, what do you see? At some point, it is likely that you will have to choke back your revulsion at the image that stares back at you. No, you’re not a Frankenstein....
April 5th, 2010 | Recovery | Read More

How to Conquer the Fear of Relapse

Relapse is not a four-letter word. That said, there is a lot of trepidation and many questions over the possibility of relapse – will it happen to me, what can I do to prevent it, will it happen again, does it mean I’m a failure, and so on. Addiction treatment professionals counsel that the...
April 1st, 2010 | Recovery | Read More

Beating the Blues in Recovery

Let’s face it. Sometimes you just feel blue and there seems to be no way out of it. This is especially disheartening for those in recovery and, specifically, for those in the early stage of recovery. So, what are you supposed to do, just relegate yourself to unending unhappiness and reduced expectations?...
March 30th, 2010 | Recovery | Read More