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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…
Preparing to Welcome Home a Recovered Loved One
Receiving a loved one home from treatment can be a confusing time for the individual in early recovery and his or her loved ones. The love and support of friends and family members significantly enhance the potential for long-term abstinence…
Finding a Job After Addiction Treatment
Hopping Back in the Job Market
So, you have completed treatment. Now what?
The vast majority of people require some form of employment to function in society. Now that you have stabilized and have a foundation in sobriety, you need a job.
The…
How to Reach Out for Help with Addiction
How to Know if I’m Addicted
The fact that you are on this page now, searching for information on this topic, is a sure sign that in some shape or form, addiction to alcohol and/or drugs is affecting your life in a negative way. At the beginning…
Addiction and Natural Disasters: The Dangers
During a natural disaster, the choices and behaviors of those who are struggling with addiction can surely seem illogical and irrational to those who have never experienced addiction themselves. What many do not realize is that addiction is…
Lifestyle Changes in Recovery: An Attitude of Gratitude
We are trained by society to continually assess what we have and seek more. With frantic minds and hollow hearts, we judge, analyze and consume material things.
In such a wasteland of greed, superficiality and addiction, the struggle can…
Children and Substance Abuse: Therapy and Support Groups
Substance Abuse & Children of an Addicted Loved One: Growing Up in an Unstable Environment
Throughout childhood, children’s brains are growing and developing. It’s during this time, that they are learning social behaviors, emotional…
Veterans and Substance Abuse
War, Veterans and Substance Abuse
War has long been the precursor to serious emotional and physical ailments. Before people scientifically studied the effects of stress and trauma, there was an understanding that those who returned from war…
The Many Faces of Self-Medicating: Using Drugs to Self-Medicate a Problem
From the outside, drug choice and addiction can seem random and pointless. The start of one’s using, however, probably included a fairly rational choice regarding the substance of abuse.
People’s choice in substance can often be understood…
