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Our Lasting Regrets

Painful memories and feelings of remorse can drag us down. When we start talking about them, they start to lose their power over us and true healin...

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Addiction and Negative Body Image

Many of us who suffer from addiction also experience body image issues, often perpetuated by mainstream media. This is a look into the painful caus...

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Growing Up With a Parent or Caregiver Struggling with Addiction

The trauma surrounding living with addiction in the household or within our families can be extensive and profound. Children often blame themselves...

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Our Lasting Regrets

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Addiction and Negative Body Image

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Growing Up With a Parent or Caregiver Struggling with Addiction

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Emotional Reasons Why We Enable Our Loved Ones’ Addictions Mental Health Article

Emotional Reasons Why We Enable Our Loved Ones’ Addictions

As we’re working to support our loved ones’ recovery, we realize that we have to put a stop to the many ways in which we’ve been enabling them. When we enable our loved ones, very often we aren’t c...

How Our Loved Ones’ Addictions Affect Our Mental and Emotional Health Mental Health Article

How Our Loved Ones’ Addictions Affect Our Mental and Emotional Health

Many of us whose loved ones are addicts become so focused on them and their challenges that we often don’t realize our own mental and emotional health are being adversely affected by their addictio...

The Habits that Form Addictions Mental Health Article

The Habits that Form Addictions

We tend to think of our addictions in much the same way we view our mental health issues, as powerful forces beyond our control, as illnesses we were born with or inherited but can’t heal from. We ...

Finding the Valuable Lessons Within Our Emotions Mental Health Article

Finding the Valuable Lessons Within Our Emotions

Many of us living with addiction and mental illness have developed patterns of avoiding, suppressing and resisting our emotions, in particular the ones we find most difficult to handle. When we fee...

Understanding Behavioral Addictions Mental Health Article

Understanding Behavioral Addictions

We most commonly associate addiction with a dependence on drugs or alcohol, but addictions can also be behavioral in nature. We can find ourselves forming dependent attachments on certain behaviors...

Remembering the Purpose Behind Our Goals Mental Health Article

Remembering the Purpose Behind Our Goals

Sometimes as we’re setting goals for ourselves, outlining our intentions and clarifying our objectives in our recovery, we forget why it is we’re working so hard to recover in the first place. When...

Dealing with Misunderstanding Mental Health Article

Dealing with Misunderstanding

As we’re coping with our addictions and mental health issues, one of our greatest challenges can be in dealing with people who don’t understand us or our illnesses. Both addiction and mental illnes...

How Drugs Worsen Our Depression Mental Health Article

How Drugs Worsen Our Depression

Many of us who struggle with substance abuse also struggle with mental health issues such as depression and anxiety. When the two different illnesses affect us simultaneously, they are often referr...

Thought Addictions Mental Health Article

Thought Addictions

Sometimes our addictions don’t just involve substances, relationships and behaviors, they also involve our thought patterns. We develop toxic thought addictions where we’ve become so attached to c...

Exploring Our Fears Mental Health Article

Exploring Our Fears

As we’re working to heal from our addictions and mental health issues, some of the most important work we do revolves around exploring our fears. Many of us have a fear-based relationship with our ...

Emotional Reasons Why We Enable Our Loved Ones’ Addictions

As we’re working to support our loved ones’ recovery, we realize that we have to put a stop to the many ways in which we’ve been enabling them. When we enable our loved ones, very often we aren’t c...

How Our Loved Ones’ Addictions Affect Our Mental and Emotional Health

Many of us whose loved ones are addicts become so focused on them and their challenges that we often don’t realize our own mental and emotional health are being adversely affected by their addictio...

The Habits that Form Addictions

We tend to think of our addictions in much the same way we view our mental health issues, as powerful forces beyond our control, as illnesses we were born with or inherited but can’t heal from. We ...

Finding the Valuable Lessons Within Our Emotions

Many of us living with addiction and mental illness have developed patterns of avoiding, suppressing and resisting our emotions, in particular the ones we find most difficult to handle. When we fee...

Understanding Behavioral Addictions

We most commonly associate addiction with a dependence on drugs or alcohol, but addictions can also be behavioral in nature. We can find ourselves forming dependent attachments on certain behaviors...

Remembering the Purpose Behind Our Goals

Sometimes as we’re setting goals for ourselves, outlining our intentions and clarifying our objectives in our recovery, we forget why it is we’re working so hard to recover in the first place. When...

Dealing with Misunderstanding

As we’re coping with our addictions and mental health issues, one of our greatest challenges can be in dealing with people who don’t understand us or our illnesses. Both addiction and mental illnes...

How Drugs Worsen Our Depression

Many of us who struggle with substance abuse also struggle with mental health issues such as depression and anxiety. When the two different illnesses affect us simultaneously, they are often referr...

Thought Addictions

Sometimes our addictions don’t just involve substances, relationships and behaviors, they also involve our thought patterns. We develop toxic thought addictions where we’ve become so attached to c...

Exploring Our Fears

As we’re working to heal from our addictions and mental health issues, some of the most important work we do revolves around exploring our fears. Many of us have a fear-based relationship with our ...

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