Napping is really good. Ask anyone who takes one. A good nap can mean the difference between an okay day and a fantastic day. The body needs sleep. In fact, the body loves sleep. Taking a nap is a special… Read More ›
Category: Healthy Living
Sharing At A Recovery Meeting: Experience, Strength, And Hope
Learning to share at recovery meetings is a practical application of many tolls being learned inside of treatment center walls: communication, emotional regulation and articulation, as well as storytelling. “Old timers”, the people who have been attending AA for some… Read More ›
Is It Drama Or Histrionic Personality Disorder?
Nobody likes drama. Drama is in fact such a touchy subject that people go out of their way to emphasize the fact that they don’t like drama, don’t “do” drama, or aren’t about drama at all. Typically, such people tend… Read More ›
Simple Ways To Help Your Sleep You Can Afford
Trying to get a good night sleep can become an expensive challenge. There is no need to break the bank in order to catch some Z’s. Keeping A Clean Room Nothing about cleaning your room sounds relaxing. After dealing with… Read More ›
What Are Ways To Stay Calm During High Stress?
Stress is the number one trigger for relapse in both primary mental health disorders and substance use disorders. Interestingly, the brain likes stress. The brain is more prone to notice and adapt to negativity in its environment than it is… Read More ›
Tips For Grieving The Loss Of Your Addiction
Drugs and alcohol can feel like our only friends at the end of our addiction. Having isolated ourselves in some way to our addictions, drugs and alcohol were what we had left. Even if our worlds were full, our hearts… Read More ›
Setting Healthy Boundaries Isn’t Hard To Do
Boundaries are a foreign concept to many people. What does it mean to set healthy boundaries in your relationships with other people? Isn’t it a bit awkward to say this is what can be and this is what can’t be,… Read More ›
Can Someone Recover From Narcissism?
Recovery from mental health sounds odd to some people. Are mental health disorders things that go away in the brain or do they live on like cancers in remission? Relapse is a word commonly used for the treatment of depression,… Read More ›
Why The Attachment Of Toxic Romantic Relationships Can Be A Detriment To Recovery
You’re always connected to someone you love. This is as much a literal fact in the brain as it is a philosophical fact for getting through a breakup. No, you’ll never forget someone you fell in love with and developed… Read More ›
8 Tips For Getting Through A Depression Episode
It’s Probably Not The End Of The World: Catastrophizing is a short cut to a deeper depression when you’re struggling with some challenging feelings and thoughts. Whatever you have experienced is definitely significant. It might even be really terrible. Likely,… Read More ›