“Food is thy medicine,” said Hippocrates, the ancient physician universally referred to as the father of medicine. If this statement was true thousands of [...]

Whether you’ve been sober for one day or one year, it’s a common experience to wonder how long recovery takes, and what recovery timeline [...]

Your first few years of sobriety are the hardest.  It takes time to heal your body and mind, but it takes even more time [...]

It seems that regardless of the origins of your moral views, it’s pretty universally agreed that kindness is the right thing to do. Acts [...]

National Recovery Month (September) is a time for celebrating not only your personal progress, but the progress of everyone else in the recovery community, [...]

Addiction is a complex psychological disorder that is characterized by the compulsive and uncontrollable use of a substance despite chronic adverse consequences. Being a [...]

When you seek help for a drug or alcohol addiction, one of the first faces you see may be a community liaison officer. If [...]

In your initial stages of recovery, you might have heard a lot about emotions, self-awareness, maybe even about some sort of spirituality — and truly, [...]

Military veterans face enormous obstacles in returning to civilian society. The pressure of training, the trauma of combat, separation from family and readjusting back to [...]

Being thankful isn’t just something to practice around the holidays. Gratitude is the art of appreciating all life has to offer, and it doesn’t just [...]

Self-care gets a bad reputation. Some people feel that self-care insinuates unnecessary indulgences or is simply a justification for expensive hobbies. Self-care at its core [...]

Just because detox is over doesn’t mean your recovery is guaranteed. While making it through the withdrawal process is surely a feat to be proud [...]

What is sobriety? In order to define sobriety, it is important to discuss the events that precede sobriety. Substance addiction can be devastating and detrimental [...]

A halfway house offers a step between leaving addiction treatment and entering fully back into everyday life. It’s a place where one can be surrounded [...]

Life under the influence of opioid addiction is not only exhausting, it’s unhealthy and all-encompassing. It bleeds into other parts of life until everything – [...]

Addiction is difficult to deal with; it preys on the mind and rewires the brain in such a way that it can leave an individual [...]