Managing Finances in Recovery
As you work through recovery in your sober living home, you likely have a lot of responsibilities to manage. Dealing with your adulthood responsibilities and maintaining sobriety can be a lot all at once. You may struggle with managing your...
Milestones and Other Ways to Stay Motivated in Recovery
Through your recovery journey, you will experience various ups and downs. With each milestone you reach, you have achieved more success. There is ultimately no end to the recovery path, as you are adapting to a new way of life....
Add These 10 Coping Tools to Your Addiction Recovery Toolbox
Throughout your treatment process, you have likely gained a variety of coping skills to help you manage your substance use disorder (SUD). You may feel comfortable applying these skills in the treatment setting. However, it can be difficult to continue...
Everything You Need to Know About Getting Back Into the Workforce
Getting back into the workforce after treatment can seem daunting. How do you explain to your employer why you were gone? How do you manage stress? How do you explain gaps in your resume? These questions can seem frightening and...
September Is National Recovery Month
This September, Real Recovery is celebrating National Recovery Month. This month, also called National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Awareness Month, is dedicated to spreading awareness about those in recovery and those actively struggling with alcohol and drug addiction. Spreading awareness...
Learning How to Live Again After Addiction
When you are struggling with addiction, your life is torn apart. Addiction creates a pattern of living life in crisis. Instead of moving forward, you are usually focused solely on surviving to the next day. While dealing with addiction, you...
Have a Great Day: Embrace Your Daily Schedule
Recovery can seem complicated when you look at each day as a challenge. Rather than look at your day as a list of things you have to do to recover, you can learn to embrace everything you can do to...
Learning to Accept Chronic Pain
Living with chronic pain can significantly increase the risk of relapse due to the dangers of self-medicating. During treatment, you learn to abstain from substances and move forward into recovery. You can learn to live with and accept chronic pain...
Developing a New Work Ethic in Recovery
Whether you are fortunate enough to have your job waiting for you after treatment or starting fresh with a new job after treatment, chances are your work suffered from active addiction. The ability to give 100%, be a good coworker...
How to Have Difficult Conversations With Your Sponsor
Some conversations are easy and enjoyable to have, and then there are those that you dread because the subject matter is complex. Vulnerability and brutal honesty are not always comfortable, and certain topics are just more difficult than others to...
