It has been a while since we recommended some podcasts related to recovery. Since then, the popularity—and range of options—of podcasts have just kept growing.It is pretty easy to see why that might be the case. Podcasts let you explore your specific interests in a format that is perfect for your busy life. While you...Read More
Whether You’re Talking Social Prescribing, Recreational Therapy, or Having a Hobby, Activity Can Help An article in The Guardian, a British news publication, caught our eye recently. Under the headline and subhead “Young people to be prescribed surfing and dancing by NHS to help anxiety: Study to assess if ‘social prescribing’ such as surfing or...Read More
Some Kids are Dealt a Bad Hand—and the ACEs can Lead to Substance Use and Mental Health DisordersDo you like to play cards? No matter what your favorite might be—poker, cribbage, bridge, spades, go fish, kings in the corner, solitaire, or what have you—it is generally the case that the four aces are an important...Read More
Struggling with a substance use disorder can feel quite lonely. As your drug or alcohol use continues and worsens, you may well find yourself cut off from more and more people. That might be because you are trying to hide your problem from others. It might be because your drug or alcohol use has led to...Read More
When you are struggling with drugs or alcohol, you are not the only person who is affected by your situation. The list of those who might be impacted by your substance use disorder is potentially long, but in this blog entry, we want to focus on a specific kind of person: the children in your...Read More
There is a reasonable chance that when you hear someone mention mindfulness, you imagine a person sitting quietly with their eyes closed while they breathe in and out and don’t seem to do much else. And it is certainly the case that mindfulness practice often can be fairly described in those terms. The heart of...Read More
Let’s talk hoops. Let’s imagine you are a really good basketball player (heck, maybe you are a really good basketball player) and like to play the game.You might have the full collection of skills. You are a good ball handler, a good passer, can hit the three pointers but also shoot from midrange and from...Read More
Fans of 1980s television programs likely remember The A-Team, a popular action and adventure series. Before getting into a plan, each episode opened with a reminder of the team’s backstory:In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a...Read More
Aside from getting sober, imagine you have decided you would like to write a novel. For our purposes here, let’s say you have decided to pen a mystery novel—a murder, a private detective, a twisty plot, an exciting climax, and justice served in the end.Now imagine that today is the day you have decided to...Read More
It perhaps goes without saying that humans tend to be pretty curious. In many ways, that is a wonderful thing. If we were not driven to discover new things, we probably would be living very different lives. Curiosity, after all, leads to innovation and invention, and those things move us all forward in many different...Read More
