Recovery

Improve Your Emotional Intelligence, Hasten Your Recovery

/ By / Mental Health, Recovery

Researchers have found that even more than IQ, your emotional awareness and abilities to handle feelings will determine your success and happiness in all walks of life, including family relationships.” – John Gottman Emotional intelligence (EI), sometimes referred to as one’s emotional quotient (EQ), refers to the ability to perceive, evaluate, monitor and control one’s […]

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Here’s How to Eliminate Frustration in Recovery, Stick to Your Goals

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When lack of results toward recovery goals brings about increasing frustration, it’s all too easy to get so caught up in the emotion that you miss out on the bigger picture. Recovery isn’t a straight-line progression of one success after another. Often, the learning curve takes a number of twists and turns before flattening out

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Addiction Treatment to Gain Big Boost Under Obamacare

/ By / Addiction, Addiction Recovery, Adolescent Issues, Alcoholism, Recovery, Substance Abuse

Health care is a controversial and complex issue, especially now as political wrangling is hitting full tilt in states that are reluctant to accept Medicaid expansion on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Today, only one penny of every dollar that is spent on health care will go to assist a person facing debilitating

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Righteous Obsession: Can You Go Too Far in Recovery?

/ By / Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug Addiction, Mental Health, Recovery

Coming out of rehab and filled with ideas about how to embark on a life that is clean and sober is an ideal situation. For many newcomers to sobriety, however, the reality is something a bit less clear-cut. For one thing, there is bound to be a lot of doubt and confusion, uncertainty over what

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Bottoming Out and Bouncing Back After Treatment

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If you’ve just completed rehab and are worried to death that you won’t make it to your 30-day sobriety milestone in recovery, you’re not alone. Many who go through treatment harbor similar fears. Let’s face it, bottoming out was a pretty earth-shattering experience. You’re understandably concerned about your ability to bounce back after you get

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New Beginnings: When Moving Forward Means Leaving the Past Behind

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It is tough to start over, that much is true. For those in recovery, especially early recovery, starting over tends to take on the magnitude of the nearly impossible. There are just so many different areas of life that need changing, so much to do, and so much to learn before anything can be done.

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Next Step Prepaid Credit Card Can Help Addicts Gain Control

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There are many tools available to assist alcohol and drug addicts with their recovery once they make the decision to be sober. Physicians, rehabilitation facilities, licensed therapists, support groups, and 12-step recovery systems such as Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous are available to individuals hoping to kick a troublesome habit. Recently, a company called the

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Recovery Balancing Act: Maintaining An Even Keel Between Work And Life

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If it seems as though many days are a tough struggle just to get through, and you’re in early recovery, the good news is that you are not alone. Many other newcomers to sobriety are feeling the same. But that doesn’t help you much when you have to figure out a way to not only

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