Let’s revisit this topic, as social media is such a pervasive part of our everyday lives. Social media, at its best, is the great democratic …
Emotional Awareness: Primary and Secondary Emotions
Emotions tell you what’s happening. They’re signals from your body that let you know when something good, bad, or neutral is occurring. Emotional signals are …
Adrenaline Addiction: How to Tell if You’re Addicted to the Thrills
In early recovery, it’s easy to trade one addiction for another. You’ve probably heard the term “adrenaline junkie” and perhaps you’re suspecting that you might …
Warning Signs of Treatment Burnout
Treatment is a wonderful and necessary part of recovery. However, we can get burned out on talking about our feelings, learning, and staying engaged in …
Executing Action Without Expecting Results
For those of us who weren’t raised with a high value put into the adoption of faith, the notion of managing our expectations can be …
Codependency and Addiction Pt II
Unfortunately, in relationships where the dynamic of addict and enabler is primary, the only recourse is to seek out professional help. The reason that there …
Co-dependency and Addiction Pt I
The topic of codependency has been gaining traction in the addiction treatment community in the past decade or so, and for good reason. Codependency, as …
Identifying Our Inner Critics
Each and every one of us has experienced that nagging internal voice that criticizes all the ways in which we could’ve performed better, should’ve said …
Trauma and Addiction
According to the scientific journal “Clinical Psychology”, individuals who have experienced Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are between two and four times more likely to also …
The Grateful Addict
Within the rooms of AA and NA, there often seems to be a particular type of individual during the initial introductions who doesn’t simply state …