Best Free Addiction Recovery Apps For Mobile
Addiction recovery apps can be an incredible supplement to your recovery journey. Because addiction is a complicated disease, recovery does not end when you leave rehab. On the contrary, rehab is the start of your journey. When you are working through an outpatient program, or are getting back to your regular routine, addiction recovery apps…
3 Ways To Make Money With A Criminal Record
I have a criminal record. It took me years to own this fact, but I have never been able to ignore it completely. I’m lucky that it’s just a minor possession charge. During my years of addiction, I did a lot worse than forget to hide the weed in my car, but I never got…
How To Maintain Your Identity Outside of Rehab
Many people leaving rehab face an unexpected challenge. They finally see that the people who always “had their lives together” are far from perfect. Suddenly they are the ones who have the real problems. This is because in rehab, you spend weeks or months working on your identity. You don’t just deal with your cravings….
Tips For Managing Cravings When Working from Home
One of the biggest changes to life in 2020 is that tons of people are suddenly working from home. While remote work has long been the norm for millions of freelancers, it is a brand new experience for those of us used to going to an office. For recovering alcoholics and substance users, it can…
Is Online Therapy Helpful for Recovering Addicts?
While the country is starting to open up again after an extended period of stay-at-home orders, not everyone is ready to take the risk. For many people recovering from alcoholism and substance use disorder, the situation is particularly dicey. After all, alcohol and drugs can have a severe impact on your physical health. Many chronic…
Should I Keep My Time in Drug Rehab Secret?
While you’re in alcohol and drug rehab, it is relatively easy to speak about your experience. You are among a group of people who have been through similar things as you. Your addiction is why you are there, after all. But what happens once you leave rehab center? Should you keep your time in drug…
How Mindfulness Can Give Perspective in Recovery
“Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference” – the Serenity Prayer In the Serenity Prayer, we ask for the wisdom to know the difference between what we can and cannot change. Without that wisdom, we can get stuck…
How To Deal with Addiction as an Individual
Something very disconcerting has been happening over the last couple of months in the midst of COVID-19. Instead of speaking about people, everyone has begun talking in numbers. Politicians, health experts, and the everyday person all have opinions which weigh up the numbers of dead. Some insist we must do everything to limit the number…
Caffeine Risks Explained
Do you drink coffee every day? Is it the first thing you do after you wake up? Would you find it hard to function without coffee? Is drinking coffee evryday an addiction? Every coffee drinker thinks about these questions at some point. But for recovering addicts, the implications are different. The caffeine in coffee certainly…
3 Famous Singers Who Beat Addiction
Most of the narrative around addiction in the media focuses on the tragedies. Stories about people who succumbed to addiction make for much more drama than stories of hope and forgiveness. We are therefore more likely to hear about a celebrity going into rehab than coming out sober. Unfortunately, we are also more likely to…