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Beating Addiction

Beating Addiction When the Holiday Blues Are Getting You Down Whenever Christmas and New Year’s come around and all the other holidays that surround it, it’s easy to get bogged down in feeling alone or depressed. This is especially true…
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Graduation to Sober Living

Graduation to Sober Living Properties After graduating from a drug rehab center, what should your next steps be? Any type of abuse has the potential to leave lives in shattered remains. Many addicts lose their jobs, relationship, friends…
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Sober Life

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Sober Living Life

Sober Living Sober living is life changing to say the least.  There are so many advantages to a sober life, aside from the obvious health benefits.  No two addicts are the same and some experience all of these benefits when adjusting to…
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Sober Living

Sober Living Did you know that it takes more than 30 days to create a lifelong habit?  Since we know that sober living requires daily attention, this is the reason it is so important to have a structured, consistent environment during the…
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Community in Sober Living

Community in Sober Living John Donne once wrote his Meditation, “No man is an island…every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main”. A man or woman who is on the journey of treatment and recovery for addiction cannot travel…
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Being Honest

Being honest with ourselves During the course of our life, we have all at some time encountered someone who was not completely honest with us. In fact, if we are being truly honest right now, lies are a part of every addict’s life. Lies…
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Success in Chaos

Success in Chaos, Learning to Deal with Stress Dealing with stress when you’re in recovery is more difficult than anyone else dealing with stress. You have to struggle with your own issues while at the same time having to navigate through…
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Safe Environments

Living in a safe environment while working through addiction recovery is a critical part of this successful process.  These environments serve as an interim facility between in-patient rehab and a return to the person’s normal living situation. …
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Sober Living

  Living a sober life means different things to different people. At its core it means to maintain one’s recovery while making life affirming changes.  By living a sober life, we lessen the likelihood of a relapse.  Using a 12 step…