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Is Your Childhood Trauma Still Affecting You?
Childhood is one of the most important stages in any person's development. During childhood, we are first introduced to important life skills such as language, self-control, and critical thinking. We learn how to form connections with others by interacting with our...
Creating New and Healthy Holiday Traditions in Recovery
With the holidays approaching quickly, it may be worthwhile to acknowledge how creating new and healthy holiday traditions is helpful for those in recovery. In the past, you may have connected your celebratory holiday traditions with substance use. While you are...
Why Is Forgiveness Important In Healing?
Forgiving someone is an experience that most people see as courageous. It is the conscious and deliberate decision to alleviate resentment, grudges, and vengeance against something or someone that has harmed you. Whether or not the person you are forgiving actually...
How Toxic Masculinity Can Contribute to the Development of Mental Illness
Gender and sexuality play large roles in how we have come to understand mental illness, especially in regards to their development. While society today has come a long way in challenging typical male stereotypes, ideas surrounding toxic masculinity continue to...
What Are Inhalants?
In popular culture and the media, drug paraphernalia is often portrayed using the most common routes of administration. You might see pictures of empty prescription bottles, ash-covered pipes, or dirty syringes. These portrayals, however, miss one class of drugs that...
Confusing Self Worth With Success
Self-esteem is something that many people will struggle with during their lifetime. Many people struggle with their self-worth because they confuse self-worth with success. Modern society frames success in unhealthy ways, which causes individuals to be misguided in...
What’s Love Got to Do With Recovery?
Love is an essential component of life. It is beneficial in all domains of wellness. We are taught love through our parents, caregivers, and guardians when we are little, and learn to spread that love outward as we age. Love keeps us grounded in our relationships and...
What Are the Benefits of Exercise?
You are probably no stranger to the fact that exercise is good for you. Many of us are engaged in busy daily routines with strenuous job responsibilities and tend to neglect to give ourselves the proper amount of time to work out during any given week. Exercise can be...
How to Cope With Grief in a Healthy Way
As we experience life, we will inevitably experience loss. Most people will experience the loss of a pet or a loved one throughout their life. Many people interpret loss to be experienced during times of death, although loss does not have to necessarily mean that...
How Your Brain Responds to Stress
None of us is a stranger to the feeling of stress. Anxiety and stress are typical responses that we experience throughout challenging times in our lives. In many cases, stress and anxiety contribute to stimulation and excitement, motivating us to perform better. In...