Posts Tagged ‘addiction recovery’
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…
Read MoreDo 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…
Read MoreRecovery 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…
Read MoreThe Third Step – Abandon Ship – “Captain of My Ship, Master of My Soul”
The 3rd step of AA – Tim Cheney, co-founder of Chooper’s Guide, shares his thoughts. Tim’s thoughts on the first 2 steps of AA are linked below this post. The following is a guest post by Tim Cheney who has been in long-term recovery for over 30 years. He is the co-founder and managing partner…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreDry Drunk | When an Alcoholic Stops Drinking or a Drug Addict Stops Using But Does Not Seem to Get Better
Dry drunk is a term to describe an alcoholic or drug addict’s behaviors when they’ve stopped using their substance but their behaviors don’t seem to improve. The following is a guest post by Bill Urell who has been in recovery for 16 years. Bill works as an addictions therapist at a leading residential treatment center,…
Read MoreMindfulness 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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