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Restarting after Relapse - Maintaining Your Hope for Recovery
Relapse is common in recovery. But with perseverance, support, and a willingness to learn, every relapse can be an opportunity for growth and progress. Keep getting back up and moving forward towards a better life.
Relapsing after Long Term Sobriety - Coping with Embarrassment and Shame
Relapse after long term sobriety: embarrassment is normal but shame and embarrassment can kill you if they keep you from getting the help you need. Learn what to do after relapse, no matter how many years of sobriety you have behind you.
Preventing Relapse: 7 Common Exercise Excuses - Refuted!
Getting into a daily exercise habit reduces your odds of addiction relapse – so what’s stopping you? Here are the 7 most common exercise excuses – all refuted!
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.
8 Item Recovery Wellness Checklist – Avoid Relapse and Get Healthy and Happy
Decrease your relapse odds and increase your happiness, resilience and health by focusing on balanced wellness. Here’s an 8 item wellness checklist with suggestions for small changes you can make today.
Don’t Let a Slip Turn Into a Relapse
Some basic facts about relapse, why a slip never needs to mean the end of a recovery or that treatment has failed, what to do if you slip (right away) and how to reduce your odds of relapse in the first place.
How to Handle Negative Emotions without Drugs or Alcohol - Using Mindfulness and Mental Imagery to Cope with Uncomfortable Feelings
Learn distress tolerance skills like mindfulness and imagery so you can handle uncomfortable feelings with out needing to get drunk or high.
After a Relapse: "Re-working" the Twelve Steps
Learn how to see 'the steps' as opportunities. After relapse, making the most of them hinges on our attitude and on our willingness to change.
Relapse Prevention Programs - Learning to Avoid Relapse after Drug Rehab
Learn why virtually all addiction treatment programs spend a great deal of time and energy teaching relapse prevention strategies. Why they do it, what they teach and what you need to learn.
Learning from Relapse: 13 Questions to Ask Yourself after a Slip
Ask and answer the following 13 questions after a slip to identify exactly what led you into trouble.
Learning to Have Fun in Recovery
Boredom in recovery can lead addicts to relapse so it is important to find ways to have fun in recovery. This article explores ways to discover new interests and fun activities to keep people in recovery from feeling bored and restless.
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.
The Importance of Resilience in Addiction Recovery
Resilient people adapt to change and bounce back from adversity – and resilient people are less likely to react to tragedy or great stress with relapse back to substance abuse. If you’re in recovery, resilience can save your life. Read on to learn 8 ways to become a more resilient person.
The Four Ds – a Simple Relapse Prevention Strategy
Learn this simple distraction and breathing exercise that works well to get you through periods of intense cravings.
Make a Relapse Drift Chart and Avoid Drifting Toward a Slip-Up
There are certain things you do that keep you sober and certain things that you could do that bring you closer to relapse. To make sure you do more of the former and none of the latter, take 5 minutes and make up a relapse drift chart to put on your fridge and check with once a week.
When Your Loved Ones Keep Relapsing
Supporting those who keep going back out: how to maintain hope and effectively cope when a loved one just can't seem to stay sober.
7 Strategies for Staying Sober Over the Holidays
Worried about how you’ll make it through Thanksgiving? Here are 7 simple suggestions for making sure your holidays don't end in relapse.
Addiction Treatment: Drug Refusal Skills - Why You Need to Re-Learn How to Say NO!
If you’re trying to quit drugs or alcohol you need to re-learn how to say no. It sounds a bit childish, but it’s true and it’s very necessary, which is why most addiction treatment programs teach drug refusal skills as an essential recovery skill to master. Want to learn how to say no like you mean it…read on.
Holiday Relapse Risk Self-Test
It’s hard to avoid the craziness of the holiday season. Take this self test and see if your Christmas habits put you at risk of relapse.