Many addicts in recovery will experience situations that trigger them, especially those who have past trauma. When they experience fear during an accident or a crisis situation, such as the hurricane and flooding on the East Coast, it triggers the same response mechanism that was activated in the previous trauma. This may also trigger a [...]
Most people have hobbies. Some hobbies can become addictions. It is certain that addicts in early recovery can see how their previous behaviors became lost as their addiction became more and more the driving force of their lives. Or perhaps their hobbies became additional addictions that they could not stop being compulsive and obsessive about. [...]
Most people vow to eat better, exercise more, be generally healthier when ushering a new year. Eating healthily is especially important for recovering addicts. However, recovery is fraught with opportunities to shift addictions from one unhealthy lifestyle choice to another, and due to the nature of the addictive personality, many recover from drug and alcohol [...]
‘Tis the season to be…tempted. Recovering addicts are prone to pushing their boundaries, by nature. They will look for loopholes and ways to get around rules more than most, it seems. While this is rash generalization, it comes from a great deal of time spent in the treatment and recovery field. One of the issues [...]
