Sober Life
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 to Effectively Communicate in Relationships
Knowing how to effectively communicate in relationships and professionally is a critical life skill. Good communication skills can also determine success in recovery from addiction.
Read MoreHow To Apologize The Right Way
I’m sorry is not enough. Knowing how to apologize the right way is an essential to repairing damaged relationships, restoring social bonds, and regaining trust.
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 MoreHow To Break a Push Pull Relationship Pattern?
A push-pull relationship cycle is a clear-cut example of “playing games,” but it’s a dynamic that’s not uncommon. The psychology of a push-pull relationship is fascinating. In this push-pull dance, one partner seeks greater connection but grows increasingly critical when a connection is elusive. The other partner seeks greater autonomy and increasingly withdraws in the face of complaints, pressure, and feeling smothered.
Read MoreWho Are You? Finding Your Spiritual Identity in Recovery
Discovering your core values, and finding your spiritual identity in recovery , and learning to live your life aligned to this new identity is critical in achieving long term sobriety.
Read MoreDo You Need A Sign From God?
Do you need a sign from God? Find out what it means to look for a sign from God to help you better understand His will for your life.
Read MoreStaying Inside Your Hula-Hoop
Learning to stay inside your hula-hoop is focusing only on the things that you can control, and radically accepting the things outside of your hula-hoop that you cannot control.
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 MorePUSH for Recovery Book
Don’t buy into the lies that it is to late to achieve your goals and dreams. I am very pleased that on my 50th Birthday, my first book was published. You can find this new recovery book on Amazon and Kindle. There are multiple pathways that people recover from addiction—some recovery from the twelve-step approach. …
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 MoreBeware of the Danger of Complacency in Recovery
Beware of the Danger of Complacency in Recovery. Complacency can be deadly in our recovery life, and it is even worse in our spiritual life.
Read MoreFilling Your God-Shaped Hole in Your Heart
Each of us has a God-shaped hole in our heart, that we have vainly attempted to fill with many things, including drugs or alcohol. Learning to fill the God-shaped hole in your heart with a relationship and connection to God is vital for full recovery from addiction.
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 MoreHow To Get Over a Breakup Without Relapsing
Getting over a breakup is hard. However, if you are in recovery from addiction, dealing with the emotions associated with a breakup creates a big risk of relapse. Here are some tips to help you avoid a relapse while dealing with a breakup.
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 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.
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