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What Does Nutrition Have To Do With Mental Health?
There are so many unique facets involved with mental health recovery. One of those facets teaches clients how to alter harmful patterns of behavior, especially learning how to promote healthy habits over harmful ones. When people think of habits, they might...
Accepting a Loss of Control
If you are familiar with mental health and addiction treatment, you might already know that one of the very first steps of recovery is admitting and accepting a loss of control, or powerlessness, over your drug of choice. Feeling powerlessness and accepting...
Men and Alcohol Addiction: Whats the Connection?
Alcoholism continues to affect the lives of individuals everywhere, although alcohol consumption is male-dominated. Globally, research shows that men both consume more alcohol and account for more alcohol-related harms compared to women. In 2016, nearly 1.46 billion...
Motivational Interviewing: Overcoming Ambivalence Surrounding Recovery
Ambivalence is an emotion characterized by mixed or contradictory feelings towards something or someone. In recovery, the concept of ambivalence is typically used to refer to someone that has mixed thoughts and feelings surrounding the idea of change.From Ambivalence...
What is Spirituality?
Spirituality is an experience that encourages people to find deeper connections within their human experience. It is a universal human experience that increases our sense of aliveness.At one point or another, every person will start to ask the unanswerable questions...
Days To Celebrate in March
Recovery can be mentally exhausting. You are constantly facing your triggers and cravings head-on, learning how to be the best person you can be for your sobriety and mental health. When you are focused on your recovery journey, you may find yourself ignoring the...
What Is Creative Expression?
The word "introspection" is the act of examining, observing, and becoming aware of your personal, mental, and emotional processing. Introspection is essential both in recovery and in life as it gives people the ability to gain deeper insight into their thoughts,...
The Many Differences Between Empathy, Sympathy, and Apathy
You may or may not be familiar with the term empath. The word empath is frequently used to describe someone highly sensitive and aware of the emotions of those around them. Many people consider themselves empaths despite not fully understanding the term. To...
How Should I Respond to Urges of Relapse?
When you commit to recovery from substance use or addiction, you are bound to endure intense challenges on your healing journey. Many of those challenges may surface as cravings or triggers. What Are Triggers?Triggers are subjective. When a person is triggered,...
Fighting Existential Distress
Most people have heard of a mid-life crisis, but what about an existential crisis?Most of us are conditioned to travel through life merely going through the motions. Eat, work, sleep, and repeat seem to be the standard for living. For some, this keeps away any...