Managing Chronic Pain Without Substance Use

Living with chronic pain can be debilitating, frustrating, and exhausting. For many people, it’s tempting to turn to substance use as a way of managing their physical and emotional suffering from prolonged discomfort. However, using medication or other substances for this purpose could lead to an increase in the severity and concern of addiction. Accepting […]

Replacing Negative Habits That Feed Your Addiction

Whether they’re good or bad, everyone has habits. Habits help to shape your life and can either push you toward success or pull you back from it. Negative habits can quickly become problematic when they feed addictive tendencies. Addiction is a chronic disorder that is characterized by compulsive substance-seeking despite the consequences involved. The onset […]

How Sleep Habits Affect Recovery

Recovery is meant to help you establish a sense of balance within each state of your existence. While sobriety maintenance is the main focus, we also want to help you manage each aspect of your life from a healthy perspective. This includes maintaining a healthy diet, engaging in physical activity, and ensuring your sleep habits […]

Nutritious Meals to Easily Incorporate

There are many stressors and responsibilities to balance during your time in a sober living home. This point of your recovery is likely dedicated to developing skills to manage adulthood on your own without falling back into the use of substances. While there are many factors to focus on during this time, one important area […]

Be Extra with Nutrition in Recovery Part-1

Your physical nutrition is just as important as your spiritual. When suffering from alcohol or substance use disorder, your body takes a toll that may affect you short or long term. Part of your recovery from either of these disorders is about regaining or practicing new physical health goals and bettering your body. Physical exercise […]

Recognizing 10 Warning Signs of Relapse for Alcoholics and Addicts

Before we address the warning signs of relapse for alcoholics and addicts, we must ask ourselves: What is a relapse? For alcoholics and drug addicts, a relapse is when consuming an alcoholic drink or using an illegal substance takes place after a period of abstinence. Relapse is common for patients, both just starting in recovery […]