Ibogaine is a somewhat controversial drug found in plants but is also used for healing purposes in people with addiction. This drug is seen as one way to get rid of opiate addiction, but it has lots of risks and is unproven when it comes to this usage. Ibogaine therapy has helped some people butRead More
The recovery process is as much about healing our thoughts as it is working to get sober. In fact, the healthier our thought patterns and belief systems, the more conducive they are to our sobriety, and the more success we’ll have in our recovery. When we’re thinking in self-loving, self-empowering ways, we become stronger inRead More
For many of us, a major block in our recovery is how closed off we are to healing. We don’t believe it’s possible for us. We think recovery is an impossible ideal that we can’t attain for ourselves. We might have seen everyone around us struggle with relapse, unable to maintain their sobriety for anyRead More
The recovery process asks us to change so many things about ourselves, and the work we do can be overwhelming, to say the least. One thing that can be challenging at first, but which becomes easier over time, is the idea of learning how to regulate ourselves to help ourselves stay sober. Self-regulating is learningRead More
When we’re living with addiction and mental health issues, one of the things that most holds us back in our pursuit of healing is our tendency to hold onto things that are weighing us down. We form strong attachments to things that we feel are important to us, habits, relationships, circumstances, certain issues in ourRead More
As we’re working to help ourselves recover, there are countless healing approaches we can try to boost our recovery work and give ourselves an even better chance of succeeding. One of these approaches is the concept of self-regulating, where we monitor and assess our behaviors and choices in order to help ourselves stay sober. ToRead More
We all use our drugs of choice for different reasons, often as coping mechanisms for the things we find hardest to deal with in life. One of the main reasons we develop addictions in the first place is because we’re turning to addictive substances and behaviors to self-medicate and to cope with our pain. TheRead More
For those of us struggling with addiction and mental illness, one of the commonalities so many of us share is the personal experience of having been abused in the past. Whether we were abused by a family member, partner or stranger, the pain can be debilitating and can stay with us years after the initialRead More
Sometimes the biggest block to our recovery can be the lack of fulfillment we feel in our lives and the confusion we feel around our place in the world. We don’t know who we are or what we’re meant to do. We don’t know what gifts we’re meant to share with the world or howRead More