Posts Tagged ‘addiction treatment and recovery’
3 Things You Don’t Know About Dreaming in Recovery
3 things you likely don’t know about dreaming in recovery as a blog post titled grabbed my attention. As someone who has studied the importance of sleep for brain health and wellness, as well as its role as one of the key brain healers people seeking recovery can do, I was happy to share this…
Read MoreMany Paths to Recovery – Guest Author Peter L
The journey through addiction treatment and recovery takes time, and that’s because it is a chronic disease — a chronic brain disease because of the way it changes brain health and function. As with other chronic diseases, relapse is possible because there is no single way to treat the disease of addiction (aka severe substance…
Read MoreThe Need to Make Addiction Treatment More Accessible
One of the most difficult aspects of the work I do is constantly butting up against the utter lack of understanding of the disease of addiction and what it takes to treat it. And it’s not just the lack of understanding, it’s how that lack translates as indifference, denial, outright prejudice, stigma and shame, which…
Read MoreHarm Reduction – Why I Consider It a Viable Option by Kate Bartenhagen, MFT
Harm reduction is often a controversial approach to treating addiction and/or minimizing the impacts of alcohol abuse or drug abuse. In her guest post, Kate Bartenhagen, MFT, shares her views on why she now considers harm reduction a viable option in her work as a family therapist to reduce suffering and improve relationships. Kate Bartenhagen…
Read MoreWhat If I Relapse After Addiction Treatment and How Can I Prevent This?
Relapse after addiction treatment is a source of great fear for many addicts/alcoholics. The following is a guest post from Patrick Meninga, an Intake Specialist at a Drug Rehab in Michigan with over 5 years experience working directly with recovering addicts and alcoholics. He has been clean and sober for over a decade now and…
Read MoreAh Ha Moments in Addiction Recovery
Addiction recovery – the ah ha moments can be life changing. The following is a guest post by Nancy Del Colletti, Executive Director of Rainbow’s End Recovery Center, a unique place to recover from substance abuse in an intimate 15-bed facility on the edge of Idaho’s wilderness. Nancy can be reached at nancy@rainbowsendrecoverycenter.com. Ah Ha…
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