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When Am I Considered Recovered?
Mental health and substance use disorders and addiction are not uncommon experiences. They tend to affect not only the individuals struggling with the conditions, but they can also extend beyond that into family members and even strangers. Luckily, increasingly more...
Fixing Your Internal Clock
The human body is fueled by routine. One of the most important aspects of an individual's daily routine is having a regular sleep schedule, as sleep is essential for proper body and brain functioning. Sleep allows your mind and body to recharge, allowing your mental...
What Is the Red Road Curriculum?
Effective recovery from mental health disorders, substance use, or addiction must teach the importance of having values. Values are fundamental core beliefs that guide our individual behavior and help us identify what is important in our lives. In recovery, values...
Job Satisfaction as a Protective Factor Against Relapse
Nearly everyone will experience working a job that they do not enjoy at least once in their lifetime. For most people, this experience may happen several times. There are endless reasons that may lead someone to experience job dissatisfaction. While it is...
Why Is Self-Compassion Essential in Recovery?
Making mistakes, experiencing emotional pain, and going through suffering are inevitable aspects of life. Many people consider these experiences valuable for creating balance in life, such as believing that you can't have positives without having...
Addressing the Drug Overdose Epidemic
In November of 2021, reports from the CDC were released addressing yet another epidemic in the United States. The CDC's National Center for Health Statistics data indicated that the 12-month period from April of 2020 to April of 2021 significantly outnumbered the...
Should I Tell My Children About My Past Addiction?
Being a parent in recovery poses many unique challenges. For starters, you have experienced the consequences of substance use first-hand and will likely do anything in your power to keep your children away from experiencing those consequences...
Understanding How Dependence Plays Into Addiction
People often group addiction and dependence together or use them interchangeably when explaining substance use issues. While addiction and dependence can and often do occur together, these terms describe different conditions. It is essential to recognize that,...
What Is Drug Detox?
Before treatment for substance use disorders or addiction can begin, detox must occur. Detoxification—or detox—is the process of cleansing the body of toxic and addictive chemicals found in drugs and alcohol. In recovery, detox is an essential phase as it helps...
Feeling Depressed vs. Having Depression
As internet search engines become more readily available on our technological devices, it is no surprise that people are becoming more reliant on self-diagnosing when they experience pain, distress, or other symptoms. While there are pros to having access to medical...