TREE HOUSE BLOG

As the title suggests, we are going to be examining one of the key elements to ensuring our ongoing and continual growth while in recovery.

What’s the point of getting sober if you aren’t having fun? Many men find themselves asking that exact question in recovery. Sitting in their sober

We who are recovering are sensitive creatures. Our harmony, balance, and state of mind are easily affected by the simplest disturbances and it is our

“I don’t deserve sobriety” men have told themselves. As men who have caused a great deal of damage in our lives and the lives of

When the ideas of the ability to choose and the ability to control drinking come into the same conversation, that conversation gets fairly heated fairly

Nobody says we have to be friends with the people we go to treatment with. Technically, we don’t have to like anyone. We don’t have

Recovery is more than learning how to live sober in abstinence from drugs and alcohol. We are capable of tremendous change and transformation as men.

Staying Sober Staying sober is inarguably the hardest part of early recovery and the biggest challenge of day to day life in recovery in general.

Men’s loyalty to one another, and men’s disloyalty to one another, have marked some of the most important moments in the history of the world.

While we all know that there are specific and delineated goals in the context of addiction treatment such as physical detoxification, interventions for relapse prevention,

Part of what makes any addict successful in their recovery is the ability they have to foster a higher-order purpose in life that elevates the

Stress. We all experience it and it can be evoked by any combination of internal and external factors. The one assumption that generalizes to all

When discussing the implementation of rational, realistic, and effective patterns of behavior that will serve us, the individual, as well as society at large, we

Dietary fads have been around forever, and have gained false levels of credibility, and incidentally, popularity as people try and grab on to the new

In terms of charting the progress we make in recovery, there is one flawless approach in measuring progress, as well as a couple distinctive markers

Self-care is a concept that is complete and total anathema to the individual in active addiction. Our goals in this state are twofold: consciously, our

There is much variation when it comes to human beings and their interests, preferences, habits, and abilities. There is a fabric that weaves itself throughout

As anyone who has completed a 30-day treatment program before can tell you, a major task of these programs is to help the recently sober

You’ll hear a lot of catch phrases, mantras, slogans, and flat out cliches in recovery. One of the more well rehearsed sentiments is the idea

In To Kill A Mockingbird, Atticus Finch teaches his daughter Scout a lesson about getting along with others. There’s a “simple trick” for her to

Before we learn about the depth and complexity of everything that is involved with the journey of recovery through addiction treatment, we typically see addiction

Whatever challenges you face in life, whether addiction, mental health issues, or anything else, the reasons for overcoming them are probably obvious to you. You

Everyday, we win. Whether it’s something seemingly as small as waking up early enough to grab a coffee or something as big as accomplishing a

We’re not always going to be happy. This shouldn’t come as a surprise for most of us. What may come as a surprise, however, is