Substance use recovery proceeds along a three-fold continuum that includes withdrawal management, treatment, and aftercare. Neglecting any one of these essential components of the recovery process can disrupt your goal of achieving sustained abstinence.  Sometimes, in the haste to check treatment off the to-do list, some may fail to plan for what could be the […]

Step Six: “We’re entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.” By the time we reach Step Six, we have already taken important steps toward acknowledging and admitting our shortcomings. Rooting out any defects of character is a process, not an event. It takes time to do this close inspection of our […]

Sober living housing is an effective component of continuing care that can help reinforce sobriety in the early months of recovery. New, sober lifestyle habits and thought patterns take time to solidify. Sober living provides the time needed to practice and reinforce new recovery actions before returning home to your community. What is Sober Living? […]

Step Five of Alcoholics Anonymous states:  “Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.” Step Five progresses directly from Step Four, in which we “made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” To tackle Step Five, we must admit the shortcomings and problematic behaviors we identified […]

Beginning the journey of recovery from substance use can be a lonely and scary experience. As alone as you may feel when first embarking on this path, there are many others who have not only survived, but thrived in recovery. Thankfully, some have chronicled their recovery journey by writing books. Writing about a recovery journey […]

In recent years, recovery programs have embraced a more holistic approach for treating substance use disorders. Among the most popular experiential activities is yoga, an ancient practice that has shown to be helpful in relieving stress. The physiological effects of yoga’s help to regulate the stress hormones cortisol and adrenaline. Additionally, yoga can impact brain […]