Addiction recovery can be challenging and complicated. While going through addiction recovery yourself is undoubtedly difficult, it can also be challenging to adequately support a loved one who’s choosing sobriety. Let’s go over some of the ways that you can… Read More ›
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Setting Goals During Addiction Recovery
It’s common knowledge that addiction recovery can be challenging. However, committing to recovery is one of the most rewarding things someone can do. At Avalon Malibu, our addiction treatment programs are individualized with our unique and wide variety of options.… Read More ›
Unexpected Reasons Why Addiction Recovery Is Hard
It’s no secret that addiction recovery can be incredibly challenging. There are many well-known reasons why recovery can be hard, as it requires individuals to change their friend groups and construct new routines. However, there are many other reasons why… Read More ›
Three Ways to Cope With Intrusive Thoughts in OCD Recovery
If you are struggling with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), you likely experience intrusive thoughts. You are not alone in feeling like you are at war with your mind or like your mind is not yours. Through normalization, externalization, and neutrality you… Read More ›
What Does Pain Management Without Opioids Look Like?
Pain management plays an important part in living life more comfortably if you are experiencing chronic pain. Living with chronic pain can make living a healthy, balanced, and active lifestyle feel impossible. Often, opioids are prescribed for those living with… Read More ›
The Importance of Nutrient Rehabilitation During Recovery
Years of substance use and addiction can alter and break down certain mental processes. Many people are unaware that it can have the same effect on the body. Lack of proper nutrition, under-eating, and the physical impact of substances can… Read More ›
Making Decisions in Alignment With Your Values
Recovery from substance use disorder (SUD) is a pivotal time to begin making decisions in alignment with your healthy self. You get to put down the parts of you rooted in patterns of addiction, limiting beliefs, and past trauma. Identifying… Read More ›
Strengthening Your Mind-Body Connection
When it comes to holistic health, it is important to pay attention to and honor the mind-body connection. Healing is not possible by focusing on just the mind or the body, as we need both to be in balance to… Read More ›
Giving Yourself Permission to Change
One of the hardest aspects of change can be permitting yourself to change. It is easy to become stuck in believing that, because you have been one way all your life, you will always be that way. Recognizing you have… Read More ›
Learning to Live With Gratitude
Experiencing anxiety, depression, or other mental health issues can make it easy to only be aware of “negative” things happening in your life. Living with mental illness also means experiencing cognitive distortions, which can cause all-or-nothing thinking such as only… Read More ›