Ah Ha Moments in Addiction Recovery

Addiction recovery – the ah ha moments can be life changing. The following is a guest post by Nancy Del Colletti, Executive Director of Rainbow’s End Recovery Center, a unique place to recover from substance abuse in an intimate 15-bed facility on the edge of Idaho’s wilderness. Nancy can be reached at nancy@rainbowsendrecoverycenter.com. Ah Ha…

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Do You Love Enough for Tough Love?

Tough love – do you love enough to give it? The following is a guest post by Carolyn Hughes, a freelance writer with special interest in alcohol issues. Carolyn is currently writing The Hurt Healer, a novel based on her own experiences of abuse and alcoholism, and lives in Northern Ireland with her husband and…

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Recovery App

A phone app to help with Recovery? Allyson Appen of Today’sStep.com, an online site “providing inspiration and support, one day at a time,” shares their new app for iPhone and Android. As Allyson explains, “What separates it from all of the other recovery apps is that we have an integrative perspective with daily quotes, qigong (pronounced…

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The Second Step – The Fork in My Road and My Final Wager

The following is a guest post by Tim Cheney, who has been in long-term recovery for over 30 years, and shares his thoughts on the second step of AA. Tim is the co-founder and managing partner of Chooper’s Guide, a web-based treatment and information resource for addiction, and owns and operates an apple orchard in…

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The First Step — The First Truth

The following is a guest post by Tim Cheney, who has been in long-term recovery for over 30 years, and shares his thoughts on the first step of AA. Tim is co-founder and managing partner of Chooper’s Guide, a web-based substance abuse and addiction treatment and information resource. Tim has been in long-term recovery for…

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Mindfulness to Heal the Brain

Mindfulness to heal the brain? As you’ve likely read if you follow my blog or have read my latest book, 10th Anniversary Edition If You Loved Me, You’d Stop!, mindfulness is one of the 4 things you can do, NOW, to heal your brain.  The other 3, by the way, are nutritional eating, exercise and sleep. Practicing these…

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