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What Is Empowered Communication?
Empowered communication involves skills and approaches that facilitate the flow of ideas and the growth of social connections. It allows individuals to feel understood, respected, and wanted in the conversation. Some never learn healthy patterns of communication,...
Exploring the Quiet Power of Sound Bath Therapy
Relaxation techniques can help you manage your mental health symptoms during your recovery journey. These techniques will help you control your thoughts and process your emotions in healthy and productive ways. Relaxation also promotes mindfulness; when you are...
Exploring the Quiet Power of Sound Bath Therapy
Relaxation techniques can help you manage your mental health symptoms during your recovery journey. These techniques will help you control your thoughts and process your emotions in healthy and productive ways. Relaxation also promotes mindfulness; when you are...
Could I Be Making Myself Sick With ‘Daymares’?
The human brain has the capacity to make a person imagine something so vividly that they can almost see and feel it. This skill can be a godsend when stuck in a stressful environment. Taking a moment to mentally move through what a vacation in Hawaii would be like can...
The Power of Self-Forgiveness
Forgiveness can be powerful. It can be emotionally freeing, physically restorative, and allow you to move forward with life. While forgiveness from others can positively impact your mental and physical health, it's not always possible. Even the most genuine and...
How Do I ‘Do’ Self-Care?
Recovery from addiction is often described as a path with hills and valleys. When a person goes through a valley, they are more vulnerable to stressors or environmental cues. Self-care practices serve as an anchor to prevent relapse and promote maximum life...
The Value of Relapse Prevention
Your recovery journey will continue post-treatment. Being in “the real world” will come with new challenges and stressors you didn't have during treatment and could potentially lead to a relapse. Relapse prevention can help you manage cravings, strengthen coping...
Should I Start Meditating?
Treating mental health disorders and addiction often requires a multipronged approach to be effective. Human beings move back and forth between different spheres of life at any given moment. Each sphere overlaps to influence a person's health. Treatment may fail to...
Your Personal Search for Wellness
Wellness looks different for everyone because each person's body and mind react to, communicate with, and perceive the world differently. Searching for wellness means finding a holistic approach to your overall health that allows you to live your life fully, happily,...
Can I Celebrate Events and Stay Sober?
The first Friday in August is International Beer Day. Friends will be headed to the bars to celebrate or kick it back at home with a six-pack. Should someone in early recovery attend events that have alcohol? This article will discuss how this can be risky and how...