Can Creative Expression Help Us Heal?
Our addictions and mental health issues can cause us to forget that as children many of us were highly creative and loved to express ourselves creatively. We had natural talents…
How Can We Use Our Breathing to Calm Ourselves Down When We Feel Overwhelmed?
Our addictions and mental health issues can cause us tremendous amounts of stress, anxiety, worry and overwhelm. When we feel overwhelmed, we worry more than we would like to, we…
Can a Spiritual Practice Help Me in My Recovery?
When we’re struggling with addiction and mental health issues, our spiritual practice is often one of the many self-caring things that get sacrificed, that we neglect in order to prioritize…
3 Myths about Addiction
Addiction is largely misunderstood in our society. A study from 2009 reported that 23.5 million people, age 12 or older, needed treatment for problems with drug or alcohol abuse. This…
5 Ways to Avoid Relapse
Though relapse is often seen as part of the recovery process, there are action steps you can take to decrease your chances of relapsing. The more aware you are of…
Sex and Love Addiction: Signs and Treatment Options
Although we often associate addiction with substances, are many kinds of addictions. Many people suffer from addictions to love, sex, or non-chemically dependent reliance such as gambling. Love and sex…
The Importance of Inner Child Healing Work
For many of us, our recovery work is centered around healing the underlying issues driving our addictive patterns, many of which originated during childhood. In order to heal ourselves as…
Spirituality and Addiction
Our addictions can be all-consuming and all-encompassing, taking over our lives and impairing our sense of self, impacting the ways in which we self-identify, and changing how we view ourselves.…
Anger and Addiction
Our addictions can cause us to have all kinds of emotional responses, many of which are self-defeating, that harm us rather than serve us, that contribute to our destructive patterns…
Blaming Ourselves for Our Loved Ones’ Addictions
Blaming ourselves for other people’s struggles and problems is a trap many of us fall into. We feel responsible for their happiness and wellness. We feel it must have been…
