Category: Life Skills

While early recovery is an exciting time of rebirth and growth for us, it certainly is not without many challenges. Recovery is a new way of life, free from the bondage of drugs and alcohol that had once kept us...

One of the greatest curses of drug addiction and alcoholism is the impact that it invariably has on our relationships with family and our loved ones. Conversely, one of the greatest aspects of recovery is mending and regaining these relationships...

A life in recovery means a life free from the bondage of drugs and alcohol, thus allowing us to pursue life to the fullest extent. While a life in recovery unquestionably beats even our best days in our addictions, the...

Our addiction typically consumed every facet of our lives when we were actively using. As our disease progressed, we essentially lived to use and used to live. Once we achieved sobriety, we often found ourselves quite baffled with the amount...

The holidays are supposed to be happy times that are spent with our family and loved ones. The holidays, however, can be difficult for those of us in early sobriety. This can be particular true with holidays like Saint Patrick’s...

The first step for most of us in recovery is to go through a detox and inpatient treatment stay at a facility. While this is an incredible and important start to our journey in sobriety, it is only the beginning....

While it may seem to the newcomer that the point of recovery is simply to get sober, the reality is that this is just the beginning. The true goal of recovery is to give us the freedom to live our...