Plain and simple, drug and alcohol addiction is painful. Not only does the physical aspect make a person experience withdrawal and self-infliction, but mental and spiritual torture can become extremely difficult to manage. Someone who battles addiction will beat themselves up to the point of using and drinking until their bodies can no longer handle…
Instead of listening to random voices in your head that you may have heard under the influence of drugs and alcohol, in recovery you will need to intentionally listen to how to get sober. The subject of sobriety may be foreign at first, but getting earfuls of recovery will aid in your journey. The Dali…
Going to 12-Step meetings for the first time can be a daunting event for someone who is unsure of what these meetings entail. After learning the ropes of the meetings, you attend, there is nothing worse than someone or something causing undue stress in your comfort zone. Although most people in recovery are coming together…
There may come a time in your recovery when you feel like it’s Groundhog Day. You are doing the same thing day in and day out, which can get you to a point of feeling completely unmotivated to do anything at all. The people you are hanging out with may start to get on your…
An intervention may have been the source of contention when your family and friends recently held one in your honor. Rather than seeing the positive side, you could believe that you were tricked or coerced into treatment. After all, you were not aware of the intervention in the first place. Unfortunately, for the intervention to…
Someone who gets sober has to find a way to become willing to conform to what recovery entails. When your consequences become too high and you get in enough pain to change, this will often give someone the desire to stop drinking and using in the short-term. What has to happen to put consecutive sober…
Part of the charm of a 12-Step program is knowing that in 1935, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) started a whole revolution of people trying to better themselves through changing their thinking, and replacing their addictive behaviors with sober ones. Since AA started, there are have been many other recovery programs that have emulated the same model…
You come into a recovery program and all you hear about is unity which blows your mind. How do so many people who battle addiction come together for the sake of sobriety? During your addiction, you probably could not imagine getting sober and now that you are, you could not imagine going back to your…
Every person who comes into recovery is at one time a newcomer. They are new to the program and to all of the support the program offers. One of the best things to happen in recovery is gaining allies to help the newcomer learn they are not alone especially since recovery is based on unity…
The men and women who are employed as police officers, firefighters, coast guards, military soldiers, and emergency medical technicians (EMT) are recognized as the first responders to the most prolific and tragic situations in communities in the United States and in other countries around the world. First responders display courage and support to some of…