Addiction Recovery Guide (Page 17)
Don't Put Your Health Needs to the Side
Staying healthy in today’s world doesn’t have to be a difficult challenge. Sure, there are countless individuals who for one reason or another are dealing, have dealt with, or one day down the road will come face-to-face with a serious health issue, including addiction confrontations. For those individuals, the recovery process can oftentimes be challenging, sometimes beyond their control. ... ❯❯❯
Five Tips to Remaining Positive in Recovery
Taking the step to get clean and sober from an addiction is an incredible achievement. Choosing to beat an addiction is a challenging task, and will take an immense amount of time, effort, pain, and willpower. Getting clean from an addiction can lead to some pretty dark moments, which can take a psychological toll on anyone going through recovery.
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How massage therapy helps the body
Alternative forms of treating the body are gaining popularity these days, and massage therapy is no exception. Many people, however, still believe that massage is just something to be used to relax. Although relaxation is absolutely one of the benefits of massage therapy, it’s only part of the picture. There are many benefits, both physical and mental, to treatment by massage therapy. As trendy... ❯❯❯
How to Help Someone Struggling with Addiction
Many would agree that addiction is a disease that can be very difficult for anyone to live with. Most often, addiction affects every aspects of a person’s life and will even affect the people that they know and care about. Friends and family of a person suffering from addiction may want to help, but have no idea how. Helping someone with addiction can be difficult, but that help could be the one... ❯❯❯
5 Reasons Why People Aren’t Reaching Their Goals
As another new year approaches, many people are looking to establish some new goals or finally achieve some of the old goals they have been working towards for a long time. This mindset is common during the New Year, but it often is lost by the time February comes around. Setting goals alone is difficult, much less achieving them, so it is easy to understand why these issues are still so common.
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Maintaining Sobriety While Being Social
Just because you are in recovery from alcohol addiction and are living a sober lifestyle does not mean that you can’t still have fun. Many people equate having a good time at a party with drinking, but there is much more to it than that. As you feel stronger in your ability to overcome cravings and temptation, you may decide to spend more time with friends or go to parties and other events. And... ❯❯❯
Better Sleep: The Key to Recovering from Addiction
Addiction continues to affect millions of lives around the world every day. Many people struggle with addiction their entire lives and are always left wondering why they cannot break this cycle. There are a lot of factors that could affect a person’s ability to recover, and these factors may be different for everyone, but there is one factor that is commonly passed over when people are looking to... ❯❯❯
4 Tips for Healthy Busy Moms
There are so many things that we as moms have to worry about. Sometimes with everything going on in our lives we forget to take care of ourselves. There is an old saying that a happy mom makes a happy family. Well that works for healthy moms to. Even though motherhood can be overwhelming, stressful, frustrating at times, it can also be glorious and important. Here are some tips that can help us... ❯❯❯
Will Your Insurance Cover Drug Addiction Treatment?
There is a lot of published information which indicates that drug abuse is at all all-time high. In fact, according to the 2009 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, close to 9 percent of the people ages 12 and up surveyed said that they used illicit drugs in the month before the survey. Also, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, in that same year, over 2 million of the emergency... ❯❯❯
5 Benefits of Inpatient Vs. Outpatient Rehabilitation
Drug and alcohol addiction is something that few people can overcome on their own. Even with help the process is difficult. And if you remain in the environment that fostered your addictive behavior and continue spending time with other addicts, your chances for successful rehabilitation decrease significantly. This is the main reason why inpatient rehabilitation facilities exist. And while you... ❯❯❯