Getting outside and into nature can be restorative to your mental and physical health. It does not take days or weeks to go off into the wilderness to be able to enjoy the great outdoors. Just a peek outside, a few minutes of fresh air or some...
Addiction Treatment
How Guilt And Shame Prevent Treatment For Addiction
The open discussion of addiction to drugs and alcohol, along with other mental health issues, was once almost forbidden. These types of problems were kept hushed up, with great emphasis placed on how shameful it was to have these kinds of...

Emotional Healing In Addiction Recovery
How can someone avoid addiction relapse? By knowing and planning for the stages of relapse: emotional, mental, and physical. Self-care is the biggest step toward emotional healing in addiction recovery. It may sound like jargon, but it’s actually a...

How To Make An Aftercare Plan
Addiction can not be solved overnight; no mental health problem is that easy. Just because you have completed treatment does not mean you have recovered. The physical cravings were only a part of the problem. The drive to use drugs runs much...

Is Your Time Management Recovery Friendly?
Time management is an essential skill for any working man. Creating a balance between personal needs and work needs while maintaining accountability and responsibility to work and relationships takes discipline and smart time management. Addiction...
How To Get Through A Using Flashback
You’re in treatment, working hard every day to learn how to stay sober. Each day- you’re doing it! You’re staying clean and sober while gaining invaluable tools for living a lifestyle of recovery. Though you experience physical cravings and...
Why Should I Go To Intensive Outpatient After Residential?
Perhaps you have been addicted to drugs and alcohol for ten years, on and off, but consistently enough for the last ten years. Finally, you’re ready to go to treatment. For thirty days, maybe 45-60, you’re in the residential setting. You live in a...
Acupuncture Works For Men’s Addiction Treatment
Acupuncture can be used specifically for detox purposes. The ancient practice operates on the belief that the body is full of pressure points which are connected to channels that communicate with different organs and have different emotional...
Take Ownership In Your Addiction and Recovery
We don’t always want to own our addiction or our recovery. Going to treatment for drug and alcohol addiction comes with a lot of shame because of the stigma associated with addiction. In time you’ll find that your addiction isn’t something to be...
5 Tips For Making The Most Out Of Treatment For Addiction And Mental Health
Treatment is a time to learn, grow, and heal. Here are the five most important ways to make the most out of treatment so you can live a happy and healthy life in recovery. Take every opportunity to ask questions: Now is not the time to have any...