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Choosing a Treatment Center: Effective Treatment Principles to Identify and Questions to Ask

Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 by Lisa Hann • Alcohol & Addiction Treatment

Choosing a Treatment Center I’m not here to recommend any one treatment center over another. I don’t pretend to know where the best place to receive help for substance abuse is. There are so many different ways to evaluate a treatment center that it’s nearly impossible to come to any definite conclusion, and everyone will have a different...Read more...

What to Do After a Relapse – The “Morning” After

Monday, May 13th, 2013 by Lisa Hann • Relapse Prevention

What to do After a Relapse In recovery, “relapse” is that awful seven-letter word that we all fear will bring our lives crashing down. But here’s the truth about relapse: it doesn’t mean that you’ve failed. However, there aren’t many resources that help you decide what to do after a relapse. Relapses certainly can lead to very bad things and last...Read more...

Emotional Sobriety: Keeping Your Emotions Stable in Recovery

Friday, May 10th, 2013 by Lisa Hann • Family Resources

In the beginning, the focus is on physical sobriety. When an addict decides to quit using, they need to put aside their emotions, and the only thing they need to worry about is not picking up. As their body adjusts to functioning without drugs or alcohol, they can slowly begin to concentrate on what’s most essential to their recovery: Emotional...Read more...

Money Management: One of the Most Important Skills Needed for Recovery

Thursday, May 9th, 2013 by Lisa Hann • Family Resources

Addicts have Trouble with Money In recovery we talk a lot about emotions, spirituality, and self-awareness. We talk about abstract concepts like being grateful or overcoming resentments. All of it is necessary for recovering addicts who want to stay sober and enjoy their lives. There are more tangible things, however, that also need to be addressed. One skill that’s not...Read more...

Addiction: A Disease of Spirituality

Wednesday, May 8th, 2013 by Lisa Hann • Spirituality

“Spirituality” is a vague term, but it means a lot… especially for addicts and recovering addicts. Addiction affects your spirituality, which can be broadly defined as anything “of or relating to the spirit.” Your spirituality is your own individual path toward inner peace and happiness. It’s the quality of your spirit and the way you feel connected to the...Read more...

Physical Symptoms of Addiction

Tuesday, May 7th, 2013 by Lisa Hann • Addiction Facts

There are plenty of signs in a person’s behavior that they’re addicted to drugs. People who are addicted to drugs often do and say things that sober people wouldn’t. Others are great at hiding their addiction by maintaining a facade of normalcy around others. There are also people who do and say things that you’d expect from an addict when they’re stone-cold...Read more...

The Effects of Resentments in Addiction, Recovery, and Families

Tuesday, May 7th, 2013 by Lisa Hann • Getting Sober

Resentment. It’s perhaps the emotion that’s most significant in addiction and recovery. Resentments are negative feelings that you can’t let go of and that you replay in your mind often. We feel resentment when we think we’ve been wronged by someone, and those feelings of anger, sadness, disappointment, etc. don’t go away; they turn into...Read more...

The Importance of Gratitude in Recovery

Monday, May 6th, 2013 by Lisa Hann • Spirituality

Gratitude. It’s about acknowledging and appreciating the positive things in our lives, and it’s essential to recovery. Gratitude in recovery can help anyone stay clean and sober. Of all the tools people can learn to help them cope in life without drugs or alcohol, gratitude in recovery is one of the most important, although it can also be one of the most...Read more...

Overcoming Fear in Addiction and Recovery

Sunday, May 5th, 2013 by Lisa Hann • Getting Sober

Fear is an emotion that drives addiction and also stops you from being happy in recovery. Overcoming fear is one of the biggest challenges for people with the disease of addiction, and you have to learn how to do it. Fear is a natural emotion in all of us, and we feel fear so that we can protect ourselves from danger. However, sometimes you also need to protect yourself...Read more...

Prostitution and Addiction

Friday, May 3rd, 2013 by Tim S. • Addiction Help

When I was seven years old my mother passed away from breast cancer. My father, younger brother and I were forced to move in with my grandmother since my dad needed help raising us. I grew up in a nice suburban area with a loving family and many friends. I went to a private Catholic high school and later was accepted into a prestigious nursing...Read more...

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