How to Replace Unhealthy Habits in Addiction Recovery
Key Takeaways: At Real Recovery Solutions, we know recovery is about more than putting substances down. Lasting recovery means changing the patterns that fueled addiction and building new habits that help you stay healthy and grounded. Getting to recovery means you have to look at the habits, routines, and behaviors that fueled your addiction. That […]
How to Manage Chronic Pain Without Opioids or Painkillers
Key Takeaways: Chronic pain interferes with your sleep, work, relationships, exercise, and your ability to do the things you enjoy. When pain lingers, it can be hard to manage, and substances can feel like the only option, even if that solution creates another problem. If you are in recovery from substance use, managing chronic pain […]
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 […]