Dealing with our addictions means confronting all of our unhealthy behaviors, all of the ways in which our addictions have impacted us. Many of us living with addictions have unhealthy relationships with other normal behaviors in our lives, such as eating and sex, things that we don’t necessarily want to quit or abstain from forever […]
Category: Therapy
Having Gratitude for the Lessons
When we are exploring holistic ways of healing our mental health issues and addictions, gratitude is one that many people find extremely helpful and therapeutic. It can be easy to find gratitude in the good things, in the things that make us happy, but it can be harder to find gratitude in the difficult things. […]
The Ways in Which We Use Our Relationships
Many of us struggling with addictions and mental health issues use our relationships in unhealthy ways. This can have a lot to do with our deeper issues, and our relationships and other challenges often mirror each other. What are some of the ways we use our relationships that are similar to how our addictions function? […]
Practicing Patience
Those of us living with addictions and mental health issues have often been struggling with these things for many years, if not most of our lives. We can feel depressed about our situations and frustrated with our lack of progress. This can cause us to be impatient with ourselves as we’re trying to recover. Impatience […]
Gently Pushing Ourselves Instead of Beating Ourselves Up
When we are working towards recovery, how we treat ourselves can make all the difference in how we feel, how we take care of ourselves, and how likely we are to reach our goals. Many of us who have been living with addictions and mental health issues for a long time have a way of […]
Our Recurring Life Patterns and What We Can Learn from Them
When we experience the same patterns recurring in our lives year after year, it is often because we have unhealed wounds and unresolved issues within us trying to get our attention. We are being sent the same lessons over and over until we learn them, and often they come back bigger and heavier each time, […]
Seeing Things from Our Higher Power’s Perspective
One of the ways we can approach our mental and emotional healing is to try to replace our ego-based thinking with the perspective our higher power might see us with. When we are facing difficult challenges, we can ask ourselves how would my spirit view this? What would my higher power say about this? In […]
Accepting Our Flaws
When it comes to healing from our addictions and mental health issues, we are recovering from many different things, including the negative, self-hating perspectives we have of ourselves. To really love ourselves and heal, we have to learn to accept our flaws and weaknesses. This is one of the hardest things for us to do, […]
Understanding Bullying
We usually associate bullying with mean-spirited children picking on and abusing innocent children, but bullying is a phenomenon that happens with people of all ages, and the principles are the same for both adults and children. Many of us who experience addiction and mental health issues at one time or another have been bullied in […]
Becoming Aware of Our Stress
Often when we are struggling, we have buried our emotions so far down within ourselves, under our duties and obligations, under the logistics of our daily lives, under our prioritization of other people over ourselves – that we often aren’t conscious when we’re experiencing toxic levels of stress. Stress is a normal part of life, […]