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When Should You Hold an Intervention?
It can be challenging to help a loved one struggling with addiction. Sometimes a direct, honest conversation can start the road to the recovery and relationship healing. But it’s not always that easy. When it comes to addiction, the person…
Tips to Help Cope with an Addicted Loved One
People in the grasp of active addiction can be intolerable. From mood swings to a mindset that blames anything and everything for their using except themselves, being around an active addict can make anyone want to lose their mind. Torn between…
Continued Self-care in Recovery: Animal Therapy: Being a Sober Dog Owner
What is Animal Therapy?
Animal-assisted therapy, or AAT, is connected to health benefits such as pain reduction, anxiety, and depression. Individuals who find healing and happiness with therapeutic animals include people suffering from substance…
When You Enter Recovery but Your Significant Other is Still Using
“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we'll ever do.”
-Brene Brown
Recovery is the ground that you build yourself up from after you've torn yourself down. It goes far beyond getting clean…
Top 3 reasons to be JAHCO accredited
At A Better Today, we understand the importance of substance abuse treatment centers that continuously strive to grow and offer the best care possible. Out of the 13,339 addiction treatment centers that responded to the National Survey of Substance…
What to Do If You’re in Recovery & Your Significant Other Relapses
If you’re in recovery and have a significant other who is in recovery as well, there is always a chance that one of you will experience a relapse. If your significant other relapses, it can be difficult to know exactly what to do and how to…
Top 5 Ways to Overcome Grief in Recovery
Stay Healthy
Grief is something that no one gets out of life without feeling; it’s a natural response to a devastating loss, whether it be a death in the family, or the ending of a valued relationship. Things can be more complicated for an…
Learning to Forgive Yourself in Recovery
Breaking the Cycle
Forgiveness is freeing, and you deserve to be free and forgive yourself. Everyone in recovery has dealt with guilt and shame and understanding the two are important in recovery. The importance of these two emotions centers…
Stress, Isolation and Addiction
The Negative Effects of Stress and Isolation
Human beings are social animals; we are designed to live and work with others. Without a community, individuals are prone to stress associated with isolation as the innate need for human connection…
Self-Care and It’s Importance in Recovery
What is Self-Care?
Self-care is one of the most important aspects of life—every living thing requires some form of self-care and people are no exception. In addiction many people become accustomed to ignoring basic human needs. Looking for…
