Sobriety is just one aspect of the recovery journey. Here’s a look at the wisdom and the lessons that recovery offers. As we recover from addiction, we come to find that sobriety doesn’t just mean abstinence from our substance of choice, it’s also about developing a closer relationship with ourselves and searching for deeper truth […]
Category: Alumni
Signs of Anxiety in Young People
Taking a closer look at signs of anxiety in children, as well as the importance of listening to and communicating with the young people in our lives. When young people are struggling with anxiety, they very often won’t verbalize it. Instead, they might display other signs that appear unrelated but are actually their way of […]
Lacking Connection
Many of us lack that special feeling of connection. Here’s why it’s so important to feel connected to yourself, a higher power, and your community in recovery and beyond. Many of us struggle to understand the causes of our addictions and why our mental and emotional health has suffered so much. We know we have […]
Riverside Recovery to be Featured on A&E’s Docuseries “Addiction Unplugged”
If you’re struggling with thoughts of suicide, PLEASE call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK (8255). Veterans need our help. Riverside Recovery’s VALOR program specializes in treating veterans who are struggling with addiction and mental health issues. Riverside Recovery is a comprehensive recovery treatment center serving people struggling with addiction and co-occurring mental health issues. […]
Cries for Help
If you’re struggling with thoughts of suicide, PLEASE call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK (8255). Crying out for help can look very different, depending upon the person and circumstance. Here’s why it’s so important to listen. In recovery, many of us have a hard time verbalizing that we need help. We might not even […]
Catalysts for Recovery
Sometimes throughout our struggles with addiction, we experience certain events that act as catalysts for our recovery, that impact us so strongly we feel we have no choice but to get clean. For many of us, these catalysts can be the painful wake-up calls we needed to finally prioritize our sobriety. They often come after […]
Loneliness as a Trigger in Recovery
As recovering addicts, we know that certain emotions can be especially triggering for us, emotions we’re particularly sensitive to, that make us feel increasingly depressed or anxious, that make us want to seek comfort and relief in our drugs of choice. For many of us, one of the strongest of these emotions is the loneliness […]
Staying Connected to Treatment as Alumni
As alumni of addiction recovery treatment programs, we sometimes have a tendency once we’ve completed treatment to disconnect from the program that helped us to achieve sobriety. We often don’t want to stay connected for various reasons, many of which have a lot to do with our inexperience with sobriety. Sometimes we assume that because […]
Discovering Our Life’s Mission
One of the hardest parts of recovering from addiction and mental illness is trying to come to terms with how unfulfilled we’ve felt all these years, how disconnected we’ve become from our inner selves, and how much we feel we’ve strayed from our life’s purpose. We don’t feel we have a clear sense of our […]
Learning New Skills to Bolster Our Recovery
Our recovery program can entail anything that supports our sobriety and helps us stay on track with our goals. For many of us, this work can include learning entirely new skills that we might not associate with recovery because they don’t necessarily relate to sobriety in particular, but that bolster our recovery in various different […]