Energy of Healing Oftentimes when we’ve relapsed, we have a very hard time forgiving ourselves and moving forward. Rather than learning from our experiences, we beat ourselves up and are overly judgmental and critical with ourselves. True recovery means transforming our relationship with ourselves, and that includes changing how we respond to the things we’reRead More
While we’re doing the hard work of recovery, sometimes our families don’t know how to best support us. They can feel confused, overwhelmed and worried, not knowing how to help, afraid they’ll say or do the wrong thing. Our families can be one of the most important sources of support that we can have inRead More
Sometimes as we’re working to recover from our addictions, we have to do some soul-searching to determine if we have more than one drug of choice, if we’ve become dependent on a substance or behavior outside of our go-to drug of choice, and if we’re using our relationships in particular in addictive, dependent ways. ManyRead More
Sometimes as we’re working to recover, we come up against certain impediments that we feel are holding us back, contributing to our addictive patterns and triggering us to relapse. We might feel that they are adding to our depression, anxiety, grief or anger, all of which can be emotional triggers that we use our drugsRead More
Self-Abandonment and Disconnection So much of our recovery work is learning to connect with ourselves and go deeper within ourselves to find out more about who we are. Our experiences with addiction and mental health issues are linked to this disconnection from the inner self that so many of us suffer from. We don’t knowRead More
Now that we’re in recovery and working to prioritize our sobriety, the friendships we have with other recovering addicts can make all the difference to our success. When we were still actively using, many of us surrounded ourselves with other addicts who were also using, and we exacerbated each other’s addictive patterns by encouraging eachRead More
Feeling Our Emotions When we’ve relapsed, our instinct is often to try and move on as quickly as possible, to forget about it so that we don’t give it too much of our energy and cause ourselves to relapse again by thinking about it too much. We don’t want to dwell on the pain ofRead More
When in recovery, there are some things we begin to question for ourselves, for the sake of our sobriety, for our well-being, and for our happiness in life. One of these questions revolves around whether or not we’ll be able to maintain friendships with other addicts, especially when they themselves are not yet in recovery.Read More
Driven by Fear One of the things that can impede our recovery the most and postpone our healing and stall our progress, is our refusal to keep up with our recovery work. When we stop going to rehab, it’s often because we’re consumed by fear – fear that we’ll fail, fear that we’ll never getRead More
Returning to work after completing a treatment program has its specific challenges, just as every part of our recovery journey does. We can be filled with trepidation, worry and self-doubt. We question how to handle the logistics and also the interpersonal dynamics surrounding the transition. Many of us are able to take time off fromRead More