Addiction doesn’t always involve substance abuse. Sometimes, people become addicted to self-defeating and risky behaviors, like gambling, shopping, or over-eating. This type of addiction is called “process addiction.” These behaviors are often developed during early childhood as a way of… Read More ›
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Creating Balance From Chaos
Whether dealing with addiction or mental health disorders, maintaining balance is crucial in attaining wellness. Both drugs and mental health issues can cause people to display erratic behavior or suffer from mood swings. This conduct leads to the feeling of… Read More ›
Techniques to Help you Fall Asleep
Insomnia or difficulty with sleep can affect the body dramatically. It is common to experience irregular sleeping patterns as a symptom when an individual suffers from mental health disorders or trauma. The inability to get good sleep can lead to… Read More ›
Tuning Into the Present Moment: Using Yoga to Get You There
One of the most crucial areas of addiction recovery is learning to practice presence and mindfulness. Addiction has a way of stealing attention from the beautiful pieces that make up a life. Consequently, it’s common to get caught up in… Read More ›
Using Mindfulness For Your Recovery
Addiction takes a person away from embracing the present moment. When addiction is present, it becomes much easier for a person to go on this endless chase of substance abuse, losing sight of close connections, financial health status, physical health… Read More ›
Being Mindful This Holiday Season
Along with the holidays comes planning gatherings, cooking meals, buying gifts for friends and family, decorating the house, getting together with loved ones, talking about daily lives, driving to and from places, and much more. Many aspects of the holidays… Read More ›
Mental Health Tools
Mental health is something that should be worked on every day, but this can be difficult to do when it feels like all of life’s responsibilities – like school, parenting, career, bills and more – come tumbling on after us.… Read More ›
How to Start a Regular Yoga Practice
Here are some tips for starting a regular yoga practice for your mind and body. Starting a regular yoga practice is a great idea. When we truly commit to mindfulness practices or exercises, we start to reap the rewards. Yoga… Read More ›
A Productive and Healthy Morning Routine
A simple, positive, and mindful morning routine can set the tone for the whole day. Here are some tips for getting into a healthy morning groove. When we wake up, we have a choice about how to start our day.… Read More ›
Using Mindfulness in Recovery: Tips and Techniques to Explore
Mindfulness is the practice of staying grounded, aware of one’s surroundings and what they are doing, and not feeling overwhelmed or over-reactive about what’s happening in their environment. Mindfulness can help greatly with addiction recovery because it opens mental space… Read More ›