Increasing awareness and normalizing conversations about alcohol can reduce the overall stigma of alcohol addiction and help you reframe your relationship with drinking. Keep reading to learn more.
Starting 2023 Off Right: Forgiving Yourself Through Mindfulness
The new year is a time for taking a step back to ask yourself how things went. What our minds usually like to do is focus on the negative aspects. I didn't do X. I should have done Y. It's easy to get caught up in regret. However, it's not healthy. We must be kind and forgive ourselves. And one of the best ways to reflect positively is through the practice of mindfulness. But how can you use mindfulness to be more healthy, self-aware, and successful in 2023.
Here, we cover these topics and give you tools to tackle the new year head-on.
3 Root Factors That Make You Depressed Around Christmas Season
If the holiday season is said to be all about the festive mood, celebration, and cheer, then why do people feel depressed? Especially those people struggling with an addiction?
Today we look through the main reasons why you don’t feel jolly. We also give you suggestions on how to cope with those Christmas blues.
What is the Difference Between Meditation and Mindfulness?
It can be all too easy for people to conflate the ideas of meditation and mindfulness. Understandable since the two terms are often used interchangeably. So is there a difference between meditation and mindfulness? The simple answer is yes. Read on to learn what the difference between meditation and mindfulness is.
What are the 5 Principles of Trauma-Informed Care?
“Trauma-Informed Care” is the new kid on the block when it comes to addiction treatment. But what exactly does it mean?
Trauma-informed care recognizes that it is not only physical trauma that can have long-lasting neurological, emotional, social, biological, and psychological effects. It also involves five guiding principles that are adhered to by people’s physical and emotional safety.
Men’s Mental Health and Breaking the Stigma
Why Are Men Less Likely to Get Mental Health Help?
10 Stress-Busting Techniques to Try Today
Stress is America's silent killer. The consequences of prolonged periods of stress are as harmful to the body as alcoholism and substance abuse, but many don't pay attention to the warning signs. Don't let this happen to you. When you notice your stress levels rising, use one of our ten stress-busting tips.
How to Combat Mental Health Stigma
How to Make A Mental Health Recovery Plan
9 Tips to Manage Stress in Recovery
Stress is an unfortunate part of life, and in recovery, it can be flat-out dangerous. Small amounts can push us to find solutions, overcome challenges, and thrive. Yet too much can affect our health, decrease our productivity, and cause us to make poor decisions.
Even more concerning, it can push us back towards unhealthy coping mechanisms. It is vital to have a list of tools you can draw on when dealing with stress to prevent relapse in recovery.
How Addiction and Mental Health Go Hand in Hand
How to Stage an Intervention? Use Motivational Interviewing Techniques.
An intervention is designed to get an individual to change or alter their actions or habits. But no matter how great your words are or how much you pour your heart out, it has to be the individual who ultimately decides to make a change. The concept of motivational interviewing is to use empathy to get the interviewee to talk openly and comfortably about the issues at hand, and what they can do to change.
