Mental Health
How to Overcome Self-centeredness
Tips on how to overcome self-centeredness to aid your recovery, and improve your life, relationships, and spiritual connection.
Addiction, dysfunction, and unhealthy relationships are often a symptom of self-centeredness.
How To Set Healthy Boundaries in Recovery
Setting boundaries is an important part of establishing one’s identity and is crucial for mental health, well-being, stability, and healthy relationships. Knowing how to set healthy boundaries in recovery from addiction should be a critical part of your recovery and self-care plan.
Read MoreHow Can Radical Acceptance Help Improve Your Life?
How can radical acceptance help improve your life? We are powerless over our emotions until we radically accept the reality of what is. Once we accept these things we take the power back and get to choose if we can continue to condone things.
Read MoreBest Mobile Apps for Addiction Recovery
Today, nearly everyone has a mobile phone. Here are some of the Best Mobile Apps for Addiction Recovery which can assist in your recovery and mental health improvement.
Read MoreThe Secret of Contentment to Unlock a Lifetime of Joy
Happiness fades, but contentment brings joy that will last a lifetime. Unlocking the secret of contentment helps you to unlock the secret of a joyous life in recovery.
Read MoreRadical Acceptance is the Answer to All Your Problems
Radical acceptance is the answer to all your problems. In life, pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional. Radical acceptance will help you deal with the painful situations in life and reduce your suffering.
Read MoreHow is Addiction a Symptom: How to Identify and Deal with The Core Causes and Conditions
Anyone can stop drinking or using drugs, staying stopped is the hard part. What we often fail to see is addiction is a symptom of underlying core causes and conditions.
Read MoreLocus Of Control: The Key to Recovery From Addiction
Who do you blame when something goes wrong? How you answer this depends on your locus of control. Shifting from an external to an internal locus of control unlocks the key to recovery from addiction.
Read MoreOvercoming Loneliness in Recovery
Addiction recovery is a difficult journey, and sometimes it can also feel like a very lonely one. Learning to trust and forming supportive relationships is essential in overcoming loneliness in recovery from drug or alcohol addiction.
Read MoreThe Blessings of Pain
However, while we may not like pain, there are many blessings of pain. Pain is one of the greatest teachers that we have. It does not matter if it is physical pain, emotional pain, financial pain, relationship pain, or spiritual pain, pain always serves a purpose, and it motivates us to do something.
Read MoreManaging the Anger and Addiction Connection
Anger and addiction, and aggression are intertwined in many ways. Anger has been implicated in relapse as stated in the language of Alcoholics Anonymous and as found in many research studies.
Read MoreBreathing Meditation: The Power of God’s Breath
There is power in things we take for granted. Gods breath is powerful. Breathing meditation is an amazing tool when we are mindful of where the source of breath of life came from.
Read MoreHow to Be Happy In Recovery
If you are struggling to figure out how to be happy in recovery then this article has what you are looking for.
Read MoreStep 4: Look at The Man in The Mirror
Step 4 has us do a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. This look at the man in the mirror helps to identify those things we do that work against ourselves.
Read MoreFinding Life Balance: Wellness and Addiction Recovery
Our life in addiction was out of balance and full of chaos, stress, and pain. Recovery is about finding a life balance and improving overall wellness, not just stopping drugs.
Read MoreThe Power of Self Forgiveness: How to Forgive Yourself?
Being forgiven by others is a wonderful feeling, but it can be difficult to forgive someone when they hurt us. Self-Forgiveness is often the most difficult, given we are our own worst critics.
Read MoreHow to Work Step 2? How to Find a Power Greater Than Yourself?
By: Rick Fannin In Step 1, we admitted we were powerless over alcohol (or drugs), that our lives have become unmanageable. A different way to summarize step 1 is “We came to believe that we did not have the willpower (self) to overcome drugs or alcohol, and unless something drastic changes, our lives will continue…
Read MoreMourning and Grieving the Loss of Your Relationship with Drugs or Alcohol
While it may have been a toxic and abusive relationship, in early recovery, many experience morning and grieving the loss of your relationship with drugs or alcohol.
Read MoreAre You Clueless? How Developing Self-Awareness Helps in Addiction Recovery
Developing self-awareness in addiction recovery from drugs or alcohol is a critical skill to be able to identify and respond to triggers without relapsing.
Read MoreDo You Need Detox? Detox from a Toxic Relationship
Social support is important in recovery but not all relationships are supportive, especially toxic relationships. Do you need to detox from a toxic relationship to help your recovery from addiction?
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