Summer cookouts, wedding receptions, holiday events, Friday night dinner parties. For people who have never struggled with addiction, these events just sound like fun reasons to get together with friends and family. But for people in addiction recovery, social gatherings can be fraught with triggers. You may be around other people who are still using.Read More
Talking to people can be nerve-racking. Often, we only consider giving large public speeches when we think about being nervous while talking. For many people, however, simply talking to new people can cause anxiety and fear. We want to be accepted and liked. We want to come across as knowledgeable and educated. These nerves canRead More
Treatment centers are able to operate during the pandemic, provided that they follow guidelines to keep both guests and staff members safe. Guidelines can vary from state to state and even from facility to facility. The Guest House wants to assure you that we are taking all precautions necessary to provide services safely for youRead More
Trauma can leave us confused about knowing what we need or want in our lives. When we recover from trauma, we might have difficulty understanding how to be happy or recognize what makes us happy. Trauma has a powerful impact on our brain chemistry. We might have trouble feeling positive emotions. Feelings and emotions areRead More
If you have a history of trauma or mental health issues related to trauma, you may have experienced a crisis at some point in your life. You may have been taken to a hospital during a breakdown or those around you might have strongly encouraged treatment. If you have experienced a crisis, we hope thatRead More
Recovery is about striving for your goals while also being open to the changes going on around you. When you’re working toward your recovery goals, it’s a good idea to stay connected with the world. You don’t want to have your head down all of the time because you might miss some important toolsRead More
As you start to see the progression of someone’s trauma, you may also realize that they can be challenging to deal with at times. This is not necessarily saying the person with trauma is difficult, but the highs and lows of emotions related to traumatic experiences can be difficult to endure. Not knowing what toRead More
The stress we feel in our daily lives takes a toll on our health and can play a major role in our addictive patterns. We use our drugs of choice as a way of coping with our stress and all of the difficult emotions we have a hard time managing. Our stress can manifest asRead More
Behind the painful and difficult symptoms of our addictions, our substance use and dependence issues, are the deeper meanings as to why we’ve developed our addictions in the first place. There are underlying issues that we sometimes fail to look at. We aren’t always mindful of the fact that when we come to depend onRead More
As we’re working to recover from our addictions, sometimes we hope that the negative emotions of our turbulent experiences with addiction will be a thing of the past. We want to believe that we’ve done the majority of our hard work, and that we’ll no longer have to be so challenged by our emotions. We’dRead More