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How Do I Support My Loved One While They Are In Rehab?
When your loved one begins their rehab journey, you may be wondering how you can best support them in their recovery. Whether they are attending inpatient, residential treatment for an extended period of time or an outpatient treatment program, there are many ways you...
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How Do I Repair My Damaged Relationships?
The connections you have with friends and family members play a crucial role in your recovery. Positive relationships grow your confidence and drive, helping you stay on the path to sobriety. These connections can also provide you with accountability and a sense of...
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What Is the 12-Step Approach to Recovery?
If you are considering treatment or are in early recovery, you may have been introduced to a 12-Step program to help support you. 12-Step programs began in 1935 with the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). The steps themselves were accumulated and developed through...
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Anxiety: How Much is Too Much?
Anxiety is a typical response to stressful situations. It’s normal to feel anxious when taking a test, giving a speech, or going on a first date. When we face uncertainty or need to perform under pressure, a healthy amount of anxiety can help stimulate and excite us,...
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Fall In Love With Yourself This Fall
Self-love may be one of the most essential concepts in life and one of the most difficult to grasp. There are many ways to practice self-love every day, but we often find it challenging to prioritize this type of care in our busy lives. Sometimes we learn to only love...
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Healthy Ways to Acknowledge Grief
Despite being a fundamental part of the human experience, grief is an emotion many of us try to avoid talking or thinking about when we encounter it. Grieving is a natural process of responding to loss. We grieve the loss of life, friends, relationships, material...
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Explaining Addiction to Young Children
Addiction touches almost everyone somehow, and its effects can be experienced at any age by any person. Growing up in an environment where addiction is present may be confusing for a child that doesn’t fully understand what is happening. Studies estimate that more...
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Addressing the Stigma Of Addiction
Even though one in ten adults have suffered from a substance use disorder at some point in their lives, many still stigmatize addiction and those who experience it. Stigma is a problem with many health conditions that can ultimately affect whether or not individuals...
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Finding Value in Authentic Connection With Others
We are living in a time of true disconnection from one another. Despite technology giving us many ways to interact with one another, the apps and websites meant to foster connection inevitably draw us away from the present moment. We become more interested in the...
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5 Ways to Fall Into Mindfulness
Fall is a time for reflection. As the year comes to a close, take the time to do a personal inventory and create some new personal goals that you'd like to accomplish before the end of the year. Fall is the perfect time to form new, healthy habits that can take into a...
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