Happy Father’s Day: Letting Go & Healing

It can be a difficult time for some as we approach Father’s Day, especially when addiction is involved. You may either be struggling with your dad’s addiction, you may be the father of an addict, or you may have lost them all together.

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Happy Father’s Day: Letting Go & Healing

Self-Sabotage: 5 Easy Ways To Ruin Your Recovery

It is often said that recovery “works if you work it”. But what about the people who can’t seem to figure out why they, or their loved one, can’t stay sober after addiction treatment?

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 Self-Sabotage: 5 Easy Ways To Ruin Your Recovery

How To Tell If Someone Is On Drugs | Signs & Symptoms

How to tell if someone is on drugs can be easily seen through physical and emotional signs and symptoms. The physical signs and symptoms may vary here and there, but there are usually some basic tell-tale signs that people will display when they are on drugs.

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How To Tell If Someone Is On Drugs | Signs & Symptoms

#MondayMotivation: Attitude Of Gratitude | Weekly Meditation

This week let’s take a moment to think of all the things we are grateful for and share that gratitude with others.

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#MondayMotivation: Attitude Of Gratitude | Weekly Meditation

MTV | Prescription For Change: Obama and Macklemore Talk Opioids

You won’t want to miss this! Airing tonight is a brand new MTV documentary titled, Prescription For Change: Ending America’s Opioid Crisis, where President Barack Obama is joined by rapper Macklemore at the White House to talk about the opioid crisis.


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MTV | Prescription For Change: Obama and Macklemore Talk Opioids

#MondayMotivation: Freedom To Be Happy | Weekly Meditation

Recovery, fellowship, supports, service, and a higher power enable us to have the freedom to be happy today.

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#MondayMotivation: Freedom To Be Happy | Weekly Meditation

#MondayMotivation: Don’t Compare | Weekly Meditation

Just for today, I will not compare my insides with my fellow’s outsides and I will be happy for everyone’s blessings.

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#MondayMotivation: Don’t Compare | Weekly Meditation

#MondayMotivation: 5 Things You Need To Stop Doing | Weekly Meditation

Recovery is amazing and if you find that anyone of these things is blocking you from enjoying and living your life to the fullest, then it is time to let them go and embrace life.

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#MondayMotivation: 5 Things You Need To Stop Doing | Weekly Meditation

#DetoxMonday: Pain Is Inevitable; Suffering Is Optional

Pain comes in all forms, like emotional and physical, and it’s different for each person. Many people believe that feeling any form of pain is considered a weakness, but I think it’s actually the opposite.

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#DetoxMonday: Pain Is Inevitable; Suffering Is Optional

#DetoxMonday: Whatever

Just for today, I will not beat myself up for my mistakes. I will allow myself to be human and when I can’t let go, I will simply just say “whatever” and move on with my day.

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#DetoxMonday: Whatever

The Growing Problem With Alcoholism In The Elderly

Teenagers, collegiates, and even the middle aged aren’t the only ones struggling with alcohol these days. Alcoholism in the elderly is a growing problem in our nation, and we need to start doing something about it.

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The Growing Problem With Alcoholism In The Elderly

How To Stay Clean And Sober During Christmas

Christmas is relatively stressful for most people, but for the alcoholic and/or addict early in recovery, it can be crippling. 

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How To Stay Clean And Sober During Christmas

#DetoxMonday: Merry Christmas

There is something magical about the holiday season, but sometimes it can get clouded from the struggles of the year. Many of my friends and loved ones have just been trying to get through 2015 – including myself.

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#DetoxMonday: Merry Christmas

#DetoxMonday: Replace “I” with “We”

Traveling this road in recovery alone with only my thoughts and actions would surely be a difficult road to take. How often I have felt lost, scared, and alone wondering how I am ever going to overcome an obstacle or even just live life without help. 

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#DetoxMonday: Replace “I” with “We”

6 Things That Stop Addicts From Recovery

If you have been in or around addiction enough you may have heard the same tune over and over again from some people. “I’ve tried recovery and it doesn’t work for me.” But what is really going on there? Does recovery not work, or are you just not willing to take the necessary action to recover?

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 6 Things That Stop Addicts From Recovery

#DetoxMonday: Let Go

It took me awhile to understand what that statement meant and sometimes still does. This is why it is also important for me to have sober supports in my life, so that I can be reminded when I need to let go and let God take over.

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 #DetoxMonday: Let Go

Lamar Odom’s Drug Addiction is Shameful

You wouldn’t shame Lamar Odom if he was hospitalized dying from cancer, but because he’s there for a drug overdose, it’s downright scandalous.

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 Lamar Odom’s Drug Addiction is Shameful

Victim Role: 10 Things You Need To Stop Doing Now

We all have things happen in life and it’s sometimes unfair, but playing the victim role is just going to cause you more issues and pain. You need to stop playing the victim and start taking charge of your life so you help create a happier and healthier you.

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Victim Role: 10 Things You Need To Stop Doing Now

Facing Addiction: Changing The Conversation

On the heels of the UNITE event, another addiction-centric event is happening in Washington D.C. this month: Capitol Hill Day, hosted by NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals.

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 Facing Addiction: Changing The Conversation

#MondayMotivation: Advocacy Day

Monday, Oct. 5^th, 2015, the day after UNITE to Face Addiction Rally, recovery advocates will be meeting with policymakers on Capitol Hill to talk about better solutions for alcohol and drug addiction issues.

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 #MondayMotivation: Advocacy Day