5 Steps to Facing Life After Rehab RecoveryBy The RanchMarch 8, 20165 Steps to Facing Life After Rehab Life after rehab seems uncertain when all you are focusing on is getting sober and healing from addiction. However, if you want to be successful in recovery, avoid relapse and have a life you can enjoy, you need to think about it. How successful are drug rehabs that…
Are You Safe From Relapse If You Have Long-Term Sobriety? RecoveryBy The RanchDecember 15, 2015When you first get sober, the thought of staying away from a drink or a drug for a whole day seems difficult or impossible. After a while, you get the hang of how to get through life one day at a time without picking up a drink or a drug. Before you know it, days…
The First 5 Things to Do After Rehab Articles>Early RecoveryBy The RanchDecember 9, 2015Getting into treatment for addiction isn’t easy, but getting out can be even tougher. There are 86,400 seconds in a day, and each one presents challenges when your body and brain are aching for a fix.
Survive the Holidays With Mindfulness Helpful Articles, Mental HealthBy The RanchDecember 8, 2015Holidays can be stressful. Mindfulness can help. Here’s the proof. In a review of 39 studies drawing upon mindfulness as clinical interventions, researchers concluded that mindfulness techniques can help people struggling with such issues as anxiety and depression — often two unwelcome guests during the holiday season.
Don’t Feel Like Journaling But Still Want to Heal? RecoveryBy The RanchDecember 2, 2015Journaling seems to be one of those buzz words that ranks high on the list of beneficial things to do in recovery. Maybe you really don’t feel like journaling, but you still want to heal. If that’s the case, is this therapeutic action completely off the table for you? Are there new and different ways…
10 Personality Types to Avoid in Early Addiction Recovery Articles>Early RecoveryBy The RanchDecember 2, 2015Relationships are the lifeblood of recovery. Good ones can nourish your self-esteem and bolster your resolve in the darkest moments. But toxic relationships — the ones that bring you down even when you’re feeling your best —don’t just rub you the wrong way. They can put you at high risk of relapse.
How You Can Help a Family Member in Recovery RecoveryBy The RanchOctober 12, 2015When you love an addict or alcoholic, you probably have spent a long time hoping and praying that your loved one would get sober. Now he or she finally has made that choice, and for the families of addicts and alcoholics, early recovery is a time of learning new ways of relating. Your family may…
Three Ways to Love Yourself in Recovery Articles>Early RecoveryBy The RanchOctober 10, 2015We’re told we need to love ourselves. We are told we need to have a healthy sense of self-esteem. But after years of addiction, rebelling against God and making havoc of our lives and relationships, it’s hard to feel anything other than a deep sense of self-hatred and shame. However, this kind of outlook doesn’t…
Coping with Relapse Articles>Drug Addiction, Helpful ArticlesBy The RanchSeptember 11, 2015Relapse means using again after being sober for a period of time. If you are in recovery from addiction, relapse is a fear you face every day. Each day is a new opportunity to live a successfully sober life, but it is also a chance to slide backward. As an addict in recovery you have…
Supporting a Loved One After Rehab Helpful Articles, RecoveryBy The RanchSeptember 5, 2015A graduate student who finds herself leaning on Adderall in the morning and pot and booze at night finally enters treatment to learn healthy coping skills.
