As we’re working to recover from our addictions and mental health issues, our stress levels are a crucial thing for us to pay attention to and monitor as part of our everyday recovery program. Excessive stress contributes to our depression, anxiety and other mental illnesses. It compels us to turn to our drugs of choice […]
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Energy Healing in Recovery
If you’re struggling with thoughts of suicide, PLEASE call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK (8255). For many of us, recovering from addiction and mental illness entails a multipronged approach, where we’re not just relying on the traditional forms of treatment of medication, therapy and professional rehabilitation but also exploring other avenues of self-healing. We […]
How Can We Protect Our Energy?
We often find that our energy is being attacked from all sides, by all of the depressing things going on in the world, by the conflicts we’re dealing with in our personal lives, even by ourselves with our self-deprecation and self-destructiveness. We aren’t self-protective, self-supportive or self-nurturing. We allow our energy to be exposed and […]
Creating Action Plans for Ourselves
Sometimes when we’ve achieved some success in our recovery, we’re so optimistic that we feel total faith in ourselves. We feel invincible. We feel like we’re on top of the world. We feel proud of ourselves and our accomplishments. When we’re in this place, we sometimes have a tendency to fall back on our goals […]
Exploring Our Beliefs
Many of the emotional issues we have surrounding our addictions are built upon beliefs we’ve been practicing thinking and believing for much of our lives. As part of our recovery, want to examine those beliefs and explore their origins, where they came from, why and how we adopted them in the first place, and what […]
Learning Healthy Coping Skills
Our addictions are very often the coping mechanisms and defense mechanisms we’ve adopted to help ourselves deal with the pain in our lives. We use all kinds of thought patterns, emotional patterns and behavioral patterns as our ways of coping with the stress of everyday life, our complex relationship issues, and the tough situations and […]
Healing Subconsciously to Manage Addictive Urges in Recovery
As we embark upon our recovery journey, there are certain things that still frighten us and make us uncertain of our ability to stay sober, even after we’ve done a great deal of work and feel confident about our sobriety. One of these things is the temptation we still feel to use our drug of […]
Why is Solitude Important for Resolving Conflict?
Many of us struggling with addiction are also grappling with unhealthy relationships, complex life circumstances and difficult issues we’re trying to resolve. We experience a great deal of conflict, misunderstanding and tension in our interpersonal relationships. When we’re living with addiction, we’re also often living with mental illness, which can greatly exacerbate the difficulties we […]
Quitting Cold Turkey
When deciding how to quit our drug of choice, some of us make the choice to quit “cold turkey,” abruptly and with finality, without any form of intervention, medical or otherwise, to help us quit. Some of us don’t put thought into it, we just are able to quit for good, in one shot. For […]
How Can We Deal with Regret?
Of all the things we use our drugs of choice to cope with, our regret might be one of the most painful. We live with intense regret for the harmful things we’ve done and the ways in which we’ve hurt people. We regret all the things we wish we had done and said but weren’t […]