Addiction Blog
Your Loved One is Home From Treatment: Now What?
The day has finally come. Your loved one is home from treatment. So, what do you do now? Are there strict rules to follow? Should you dump all alcohol out of your house? Do you have to learn a new language in order to communicate with them? All questions people might...
Here’s Why Outpatient Treatment May Be Right For You
If you have pneumonia, you seek treatment for it. If you have cancer, you seek treatment for it. If you break your leg in a skiing accident on Mt. Hood because you love the adrenaline of going really fast, you seek treatment. I think you get my point. If you have a...
How to Cope With Chronic Pain While in Recovery
We all feel pain. Both physical pain and emotional pain. For the purposes of this article, we will be focusing on physical pain. Every one of us has felt physical pain. You fall of your bike and injure your leg, you feel pain. You sprain your ankle playing basketball,...
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Why You Should Repair Relationships in Recovery [And How to Do It]
Relationships are among a long list of things we ruin when we’re in the midst of our addictions. Relationships between friends, family, significant others, bosses, if it’s a relationship that matters to us, there’s a chance it’s affected by our drinking/using. By...
6 Common Mistakes in Recovery & How to Avoid Relapse
Humans make mistakes, yes, all humans, including alcoholics and addicts. If you’re an alcoholic or addict, your addiction is likely filled with mistakes or bad decisions. When you sober up, you can still be prone to mistakes (shocking, I know). But don’t worry, there...
Mending Broken Hearts – A Wellbriety Event
On the weekend of May 24-26, White Bison, a non-profit with a mission to heal Native American communities and facilitate the “Wellbriety Movement”, is hosting a teaching session centered around healing the Native American recovery movement. This is a fantastic...
Ways to Achieve Emotional Sobriety in Recovery
There’s physical sobriety and there’s emotional sobriety. Physical sobriety is simple enough. It means you aren’t drinking or using. Emotional sobriety involves addressing the deeper reasons you drank or use. When we drank or used, we were largely trying to drown out...
Handling Stress in Recovery
Stress is part of life, be it stress about work, stress about friends, stress about family, stress about your local soccer team basing their entire offensive strategy on the counterattack at the expense of a solid defense (okay that one’s not important). When you...
How to Manage ADHD in Recovery
ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) is a neurological disorder that is mostly associated with difficulty paying attention, hyperactivity, impulsive behavior, and difficulty coping with boredom and tedious tasks. When you’re young, ADHD can affect your...
Tips for Dealing With Depression While in Recovery
Depression and addiction often go hand in hand. Mental disorders can often be a driving factor in our desire to blot out our consciousness. This is why “dual-diagnosis” is such a common trait among addicts and alcoholics. But there is hope, both for the treatment of...