Tag: mental-health
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Battle Addiction with Breath
This article is not about breathing techniques. It is about the many ways breathing can be tooled: a better understanding of this essential element we take for granted. While breathing is our first and foremost survival essential—along with water, food, sleep, etc.—it is one of the most underrated, underused, and for the most part, forgotten…
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Why Getting Colds and Flu can be a Trigger
Why is it that, for some people, catching a Cold or getting the Flu is a trigger to use again? Is it merely the desire to mitigate discomfort; or, maybe just out of habit, an automatic response to the symptoms? I can surely recall tossing back a hot toddy or two when I got sick…
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Holiday Celebrations and Addiction Recovery
You don’t need to go! When it comes to the holiday season get-togethers, just be careful. If you are in Early Recovery, it is not always wise to attend these functions, but I understand the pressure is high. Maybe you missed a few of these while you were all fucked-up; maybe you just want to…
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It Feel Like My Recovery Program Isn’t Working
Has anyone ever felt like your recovery program isn’t working all that good? Like, you know it’s helping a lot, and you are following the instructions: you go to your meetings, follow the steps, meet with your sponsor or coach or whomever, but you still feel the pull. You are sober, you can stay sober…
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The Alcoholic Allergy Explained
I don’t know if any of you have experienced this, but the first thing about my Alcoholism that boggled my mind in early recovery was that I could recover, get my health back, get my life going good again, and then I would test the waters and drank like a Normy (just a couple), and…
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The Great Obsession
More than intrusive thoughts. Many define the obsession of an addict as the persistent, intrusive thoughts or urges related to the use of drugs, alcohol, or other addictive behaviors. This definition was not useful to me at all. I found my practical explanation to this mysterious phenomenon by happenstance when I was talking with this…
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The Truth about Cravings
Nobody craves their drug of choice. Back when I was stuck in the loop of addiction treatments (7 rounds), there was all this talk about Cravings. Cravings this, cravings that: track them, what are your triggers, ways to manage them, let’s try CBT, DBT … All can probably agree, Cravings are a big deal. I…
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