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    How To Achieve Emotional Sobriety

    February 22, 2023

    Many people in recovery from alcohol or drug abuse, compulsive overeating, gambling, or other addictive behaviors eventually realize that while quitting the behavior is crucial, it’s not sufficient to live a happy, serene, healthy, and useful life. The next step in recovery is emotional sobriety, or learning to deal with the uncomfortable feelings, thoughts, and […]

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    How To Achieve Emotional Sobriety

    February 22, 2023

    Many people in recovery from alcohol or drug abuse, compulsive overeating, gambling, or other addictive behaviors eventually realize that while quitting the behavior is crucial, it’s not sufficient to live a happy, serene, healthy, and useful life. The next step in recovery is emotional sobriety, or learning to deal with the uncomfortable feelings, thoughts, and […]

    Filed Under: Acceptance, Addiction, Codependency, Emotion Regulation, General, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Personal Growth Tagged With: addiction, emotional sobriety, mindfulness, recovery, support group

    Maintaining Your Recovery Online During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    April 14, 2020

    With the widespread COVID-19 regulations requiring us to shelter at home and to practice social distancing from all but those who share our household, how do people in recovery from alcoholism or other addictive processes maintain their sobriety? A crucial component of recovery involves regular contact with others on a similar path. Isolation, and the […]

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    Maintaining Your Recovery Online During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    April 14, 2020

    With the widespread COVID-19 regulations requiring us to shelter at home and to practice social distancing from all but those who share our household, how do people in recovery from alcoholism or other addictive processes maintain their sobriety? A crucial component of recovery involves regular contact with others on a similar path. Isolation, and the […]

    Filed Under: Addiction, General, Mental Health, Personal Growth Tagged With: addiction, alcoholism, meetings, recovery

    How To Create Lasting Change

    February 18, 2014

    Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone… Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good. If it doesn’t, it is of no use. Carlos Casteneda   Whether it’s an addiction or our just having gotten […]

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    How To Create Lasting Change

    February 18, 2014

    Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone… Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good. If it doesn’t, it is of no use. Carlos Casteneda   Whether it’s an addiction or our just having gotten […]

    Filed Under: Addiction, General, Goal Setting, Personal Growth Tagged With: addiction, values

    How to Spot an Addiction and Get Help

    January 30, 2014

    There are few topics as loaded as addiction – especially if you’re talking with someone (perhaps yourself) who’s struggling with an unhealthy attachment to a substance (such as alcohol, drugs, or food) or behavior (gambling, sex, or shoplifting). We generally don’t like to feel as if we’re in the grips of a behavior that we […]

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    How to Spot an Addiction and Get Help

    January 30, 2014

    There are few topics as loaded as addiction – especially if you’re talking with someone (perhaps yourself) who’s struggling with an unhealthy attachment to a substance (such as alcohol, drugs, or food) or behavior (gambling, sex, or shoplifting). We generally don’t like to feel as if we’re in the grips of a behavior that we […]

    Filed Under: Addiction, General Tagged With: 12-Step programs, addiction, behavior, CBT, DBT, motivational interviewing

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