Recovery Blog
Holding Onto Your Sobriety Through Healthy Habits
Addiction can feel like a spiraling loss of control, entangled with a sense of chaotic worthlessness, isolation, fear, and hopelessness. Recovery is not just about forcing yourself to drop an...
How the Outdoors Can Benefit Your Recovery Journey
Healing can be a tedious process, involving a wide range of efforts toward establishing and sustaining whole-person wellness. As individuals connect with treatment and begin their recovery journey,...
How a Sober Community Help Men Cope With Trauma
After witnessing or experiencing a traumatic event, it can be difficult for some men to form healthy relationships. Unaddressed trauma can manifest in various ways. Thus, one must find a safe space...
Leadership Tools for Peace of Mind and Lasting Recovery
Addiction is complex, involving our physical, mental, and emotional selves. We learn to: Lean on substances rather than healthier coping techniques for stress Self-medicate trauma Self-medicate...
What are Some Things to Consider When Choosing a Faith-Based Addiction Rehab Center?
The road to addiction recovery is not easy. Finding a quality rehab center that aligns with your values can make a world of difference. If you are considering a faith-based rehab center for yourself...
Women In Recovery Use Alumni Groups To Job Hunt
Women face unique challenges when entering and exiting a substance abuse program. Alumni group aftercare programs for women are essential for their ultimate success in regaining and maintaining...
Understanding the Connection Between Addiction and Impulsive Behaviors
Throughout life, there will be times when an individual may act without thinking, especially during childhood. In adulthood, however, impulsivity can cause a wide range of problems and concerns,...
How to Rebuild Your Relationship with God
Addiction shatters lives. It causes us to do and say things we would never say when sober. We hurt and disappoint those who love us. We feel judgment and criticism. We lash out to defend ourselves...
How Can Alumni Support Help Men Within the LGBTQIA+ Community Build Connections
Individuals within the LGBTQIA+ community face additional challenges due to negative stigma and hurtful stereotypes from peers. It can be difficult for one to cope with the external effects...
How You Can Be Raised Christian and Still Suffer Addiction
Sometimes, when reading the bible, we see the miracles and hear phrases like, "Thy faith hath made thee whole," and wonder how our belief didn't protect us from addiction or help us heal after the...
How Embracing Recovery Can Restore Your Confidence
When an individual is actively engaging in alcohol and other forms of drug abuse, it is only a matter of time before such use takes place at the expense of connections and activities that are not...
Time Perspective: How Your Addiction is Affected by Your View of the Past, Present, and Future
There are many risk factors associated with addiction. From your upbringing to genetics to mental health disorders, much about life can get the best of us and lead us down a path toward addiction....