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Working it Through: A Closer Look at The 12 Steps of AA – Part 1 of 2
A closer look at the 12 steps of AA, breaking things down and showing you how it can support you to live a clean and sober life.
Creating Sober Excitement – Beating the Blahs to Beat Relapse
After a few months, it’s easy to hit a recovery wall and start to feel bored and dissatisfied with your new clean and sober lifestyle. This dissatisfaction will pass, but until it does, you can lower your risk of relapse by taking some time to plan islands of excitement to look forward to.
How Domestic Violence Complicates Addiction Recovery: Ideas for Life-Change
Exploring ideas for life-change, where domestic abuse complicates addiction recovery and addiction makes it harder to break free from abuse.
Long-Term Addiction Recovery: You'll Need More Than 30 Days!
Why consider long-term addiction recovery over the standard 30 day rehab? Learn about successful recovery options and how to increase your treatment duration.
SMART Recovery: A Free Science-Based Alternative to the 12 Steps
There are many pathways to recovery. If the 12 steps don’t feel right, consider SMART Recovery meetings. SMART Recovery is a free, science-based community self-help group.
An Overview of the Goals and Therapies of Drug Rehab
An overview of what you need to learn in drug rehab, the changes you need to make and the therapies used to teach you what you need to know.
SAMHSA’s 10 Rules for a Successful Recovery
After convening a panel of experts and consumers to talk about what’s really important in the recovery process SAMHSA has released an updated 10 rule guidebook on sustaining a successful recovery. Here are the 10 things you need to do to achieve and maintain your recovery.
Recovery Road-Map: The First 5 Years
An explanation of the first 4 stages of recovery: how long each one takes, what kind of treatment you need in each stage, and what you need to accomplish before you can graduate to a higher stage.
"You Got Sober, Now Grow Up!" - Learn to Make Friends, Get a Sober Job, Go to School, Etc.
Discover who you are without alcohol or drugs! Many addicts and alcoholics fail to complete some of the normal developmental tasks due to their addiction. Recovery becomes a time to go back and complete tasks that were delayed because of addiction.
Being Financially Responsible in Recovery - Learning Essential Skills
This article explores the importance of learning financial responsibility in recovery. Addicts in recovery need to learn to place financial needs over material wants. This can take planning, budgeting and thinking of long-term needs over the instant gratification of wants.
Pets Can Support Recovery - Are You Ready for Some Puppy Love?
Pets offer an anchor of unconditional love and helpful routine, but they're also a big responsibility. Would a dog or other pet help you stay clean and sober?
Restarting Life in Recovery: Your Life's Not a Failure - You Have a Fresh Start!
From the high-life to minimum wage - how do you start over again at the bottom rung without feeling like a loser?
Cultivating Gratitude: a Guide to Recovery Happiness
How to be happy right now. We don't find what we're not looking for. In the midst of striving for a better life we often lose sight of all we have to be grateful for.
Tips for Healing the Body, Mind and Spirit after Addiction
Addiction is a disease that damages the body, mind and spirit. Here's a how-to guide to healing your physical, mental and spiritual health once in recovery.
Why You Need Treatment after Detox - Common Challenges of Early Recovery
Detox not followed by treatment usually ends in relapse. Read on for a list of strange but true recovery roadblocks (why does your memory get WORSE in early recovery!) and find out how to avoid them.
Pink Clouds & Other Pitfalls in Recovery
Early recovery is an emotional rollercoaster. We want to celebrate, recruit others to join our new fantastic way of life, make up for lost time and take on way too much all at once! With patience and prioritizing you can enjoy all the good without falling back into the bad.
Addiction Recovery: Using the S.M.A.R.T. Framework to Achieve Goals
Learn this effective system for accomplishing short, middle and longer-term goals.
Going Back to School Once in Recovery
An article about the benefits of and how to prepare for going back to school in recovery. It includes information and resources for getting your GED, going to college or to a trade school and has links to GED testing and financial aid for school sites.
Want Quality Treatment? Evidence-Based Therapies Increase Your Chances of Lasting Addiction Recovery
If you want to be sure you'll get value and benefit from an addiction treatment program, make sure they offer evidence based therapies - interventions that are actually proven to work!
When Addiction Counselors Relapse: Overcoming Professional Obstacles to Recovery
Substance abuse counselors are supposed to take a whole year off after relapse. Don't these people also need to eat and pay bills? Here's a different approach to getting treatment and getting better - without losing everything.
Creating Balance and Life Satisfaction: A 23 Question Diagnostic Tool to Identify What’s Missing from Your Life
You don’t get addiction treatment to create a life without drugs or alcohol - you get it to create a BETTER life without drugs or alcohol. Finding moderation and balance in life helps to protect you from relapse and ultimately, to be happier and more fulfilled. Take this quick self test to find out what areas you need to work on.
Dual Diagnosis: The Problem with Diagnosing Mental Illness in Early Recovery
Early recovery from addiction involves countless changes in perception, behavior, and self regulation. Diagnosing people who are less than six months sober is extremely problematic and should be avoided whenever possible. Diagnoses are labels that too often become prophecies.
In Recovery? A 7 Step Guide to Solving Problems without Drugs or Alcohol
If you’re in recovery you’re probably used to dealing with problems by getting drunk or high. Unexpected problems are still coming (as they always do) so get ready for them. Learn effective problem solving techniques today and avoid relapse tomorrow.
Sleep and Recovery
Clinical research proves that one of the greatest indicators of relapse is poor sleeping during initial sobriety. Unfortunately, the legacy of alcohol abuse on sleeping cycles makes falling asleep and achieving a restful sleep very difficult. Learn about the influence of sleep on recovery, and tips on getting a good night's sleep.
Learning to Forgive Yourself and Let Go of Guilt and Shame
Alcoholics and addicts do things in active addiction which leave them feeling guilt and shame. Learn what you can do to get over your guilt and shame to forgive yourself and let go of the past.
Addict but Not Alcoholic, Is It Ever Safe to Drink Again?
If you're an in-recovery drug addict, but not an alcoholic, can you ever drink alcohol again? Learn how to decide for yourself.
Addiction Recovery & Meditation: 8 Ways Meditation Keeps You Sober
If you aren’t meditating already, here are 8 very good reasons for you to consider taking it up. Whether you’re still drinking or using and trying to control yourself, just starting off with treatment or long down that winding and difficult recovery journey, stopping yourself from taking that next drink or line or hit is always going to be a challenge. Fortunately, while you may never be able to erase temptation from your life, you can take some steps to build up your resilience against cravings as you also build up your overall levels of health and happiness.
Sober Friends Support Your Recovery. A How-To Guide to Making Sober Friends and Building a Healthy Support Network
Quitting drugs or drinking often means severing ties with your old drinking/using buddies…but what do you do if you don’t have any other friends? Here’s a how-to guide to starting over and building sober friendships.
The 10 Best Addiction and Recovery Articles of 2011
The best of the year's addiction and addiction recovery articles on ChooseHelp!