Posts Tagged ‘addiction recovery’
Substance Use Disorder Recovery Needs to be a Family Affair
Substance use disorder recovery needs to be a family affair for one simple reason. A person’s substance use disorder (SUD (whether it involves alcohol or other drug) affects nearly every member of a family. Much of my work has been around raising awareness of the little understood fact and the importance of treating both “sides”…
Read MoreChanging Your Mindset in Recovery
Changing your mindset in recovery can be an incredible tool when it comes to shutting down the thoughts that can keep you stuck — even trigger a relapse. Today’s guest author, Daniel Wittler, shares his strategies for doing just that. Daniel is a freelance writer who also produces content for sites like A Forever Recovery.…
Read More5 Reasons People Relapse After Years of Sobriety
This post was first written in 2014, but the 5 reasons people relapse after years of sobriety are still important to understand. So I updated with current information in 2020. I was driven to write this post after receiving phone calls and emails following the news of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death and an outpouring of…
Read MoreHealing Emotional Trauma to Help Treat Addiction
Healing emotional trauma can be a key component to successfully treating one’s addiction to alcohol or other drugs. The reason this is true is that so often a person finds alcohol or other drugs soothes the symptoms of their emotional trauma. In time, the brain maps the alcohol or other drug use as the answer,…
Read MoreEmotional Sobriety – Guest Author Kate Adermann
Emotional sobriety vs. just abstinence is a significant piece to one’s success in “living” their lives in recovery from alcohol or other drug addictions (substance use disorders). As today’s guest author, Kate Adermann, explains, “[t]he only thing worse than being caught up in active addiction is to live an abstinent life without having emotional sobriety.” …
Read MoreAbout Those Character Defects – 12 Step Addiction Recovery
About those character defects — you know — the ones you identified in your “searching and fearless moral inventory” when you worked Step 4 of a 12 step recovery program, like AA or NA. Those same character defects you were “entirely ready to have God remove” when you did your Step 6. I’d like to…
Read MoreNational Recovery Month 2018
September is National Recovery Month. It is a national celebration coordinated by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Agency (SAMHSA). The objective of this annual celebration is to increase awareness and understanding of mental disorders and substance use disorders and celebrate the individuals living in recovery. National Recovery Month – A Critically Important Objective “Only…
Read MoreBreakingTheCycles.com 10 Year Anniversary | Sharing Favorite Posts
BreakingTheCycles.com 10 year anniversary — its hard for me to believe it’s already been 10 years! I started BreakingTheCycles.com in 2008 to provide education, prevention and intervention information and services rooted in 21st Century brain science for a range of addiction-related concerns, including: substance abuse, mental illness, addiction* as a brain disease, secondhand drinking, toxic stress,…
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