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How To Deal With Free Time In Early Sobriety

How To Deal With Free Time In Early Sobriety

For those in early sobriety, free time can be both a blessing and a curse. Free time in early recovery can be a blessing because you now have an opportunity to do all the things you have been wanting to for sometime now. However, this same time can also be...

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3 Tips To Staying Sober

3 Tips To Staying Sober

It’s not easy getting sober. In fact, it’s one of the most difficult things that someone can do. Many times you have to completely change people, places and things. It is not for the faint of heart. However, once you have achieved sobriety, it’s important to do...

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5 Tips For STaying Sober During The Holidays

5 Tips For STaying Sober During The Holidays

Well, it is the holiday season again. For most, holidays mean a time to connect, relax and partake of alcohol as a means to celebrate. However, for people living in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction, staying sober during the holidays can sometimes feel...

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Using Mindfulness and Meditation in Recovery

Using Mindfulness and Meditation in Recovery

Trying to figure out better ways to relax and meditate? Meditation and mindfulness are excellent ways to gain balance in your life and recovery and keep you mentally and emotionally healthy. However, it takes a little bit of work to achieve a good meditative state....

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Creating Routines in Recovery

Creating Routines in Recovery

Early sobriety can feel chaotic. Changing everything can leave a person overwhelmed and chaotic. Routines can provide an enormous amount of comfort and stability. When drinking and using drugs, you may have had a structured, mundane schedule and may have used...

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Find Sobriety in a Post-Pandemic World

Find Sobriety in a Post-Pandemic World

The world's response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been difficult on everyone. Those wrestling with substance addiction have been impacted as much as anyone. If you are still struggling with addiction after the pandemic, or are trying to continue your recovery, let's...

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What Is Alcohol Awareness Month?

What Is Alcohol Awareness Month?

How Can I Support It? April is Alcohol Awareness Month, a good time to reflect on our drinking patterns and the role that alcohol plays in our lives. Most adults in the United States who drink alcohol drink moderately and without complications. At the same time,...

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What is Dry January And How Can It Help Me?

What is Dry January And How Can It Help Me?

What is Dry January? Dry January, also called Janopause, Dryuary, and Drynuary, is an annual movement that encourages people to reduce their alcohol consumption or even become alcohol-free for the first month of the new year. Basically, it’s a New Year's resolution...

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5 Reasons Your Life Is Better Without Drugs

5 Reasons Your Life Is Better Without Drugs

Anyone. who has tried to get sober will tell you that it is one of the most difficult things a person can do. This is because you usually have to not only conquer your own fears and insecurities, but you also may have to leave all your "friends and acquaintances" in...

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