Thanksgiving is the one time a year where we should spend being thankful for what we have. If you have been sober for a long time, you can use this holiday to think of all the challenges you have overcome to get to here. It is always possible to have a sober Thanksgiving where you […]
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The more we learn about our addictions and mental health issues, the more we come to understand the power of our minds to either contribute to our healing or to our suffering. We also make our struggles a lot worse with the thought patterns we’ve adopted and continue to perpetuate. Our minds contribute to our
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Sometimes when we are depressed and struggling with our addictions, we tend to isolate ourselves, from the world and also from the people and resources that could help us. These times in particular are when we can most benefit from other people’s love and support. We isolate because we think no one will understand our
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Cognitive behavioral therapy is changing your negative thoughts into positive thoughts which has made a big impact in the mental health community. We would not have had this effective form of therapy without psychiatrist Aaron Beck who has made a number of accomplishments for those with depression. Because of Beck, depressed patients are more understood
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Our addictions and mental health issues rob us of many things – our health and wellbeing, time we could be spending with loved ones, years we could devote to our passions. One of the most important things it can take away from us is the time and energy we could be giving to manifesting the
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Our addictions can develop for many reasons. For some of us, our addictions manifested from our lack of self-love and self-acceptance. Addiction is often about trying to numb ourselves from our pain, and for many of us that pain comes from our insecurity, our lack of self-worth and our low self-esteem. Our insecurities can come
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One of the things that can fuel our addictions is our attachment to the past and to the painful emotions that we’re holding onto from our past experiences. Being unable to let go of the past can cause us to seek refuge from our painful feelings in our addictive substances, relationships and behaviors. Sometimes we
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One of the most challenging aspects of addiction is how prevalent and widespread drugs and alcohol are in our everyday culture. Current songs, TV shows, movies and video games are inundated with them. Young people are specifically targeted with intentional marketing geared towards getting them to start using and drinking at an early age, so
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When we make the important decision to get help for our addictions, it usually comes after years of fear, indecision and putting off doing what we know we need to do for ourselves. We’ve been stuck for a long time, afraid to take the first step. We’re afraid we’ll fail. We’re afraid of doing the
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An unfortunate reality for those of us in recovery is that many of us do relapse, sometimes multiple times. There are some things we can do, however, to help prevent ourselves from relapsing. Here are a few suggestions. Consider treatment as the first step in recovery, not the last step. The work continues long after
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