The Aviary Recovery Center Blog

If you happen to be an auto racing fan, it is only natural that you might, from time to time, find yourself in a conversation about Will Power. The Aussie is a heck of a driver, having won at the time of this writing 39 Indy Car races—including the Indy 500. It is...

Think about your best friend. It is likely that a whole range of memories, feelings, and impressions come to mind. Now imagine that someone asks you to describe that person--using only one word. You could, perhaps, mention your friend’s race or ethnicity. But that is...

There are times when it seems like the challenges we are confronted with are going to overwhelm us. It feels as if there is no way to successfully address the problems we face or accomplish real change in our own lives. Sometimes we feel beaten before we have even...

Have you thought about your goals recently? Maybe your answer is “yes.” You have a set of clear goals—get the promotion, lose the weight, write the novel, whatever—and you are making progress bit by bit. Maybe your answer is “no.” You remember setting some goals once...

What Is Equine Therapy? When you first hear the term “equine therapy,” it may be hard to suss out just what it means. Is it therapy for horses? Are the horses the therapists? And if so, are we talking about a Mr. Ed sort of situation? The answers to these questions...

How are you feeling these days? If you are like a lot of people, the long slog of the public health emergency (which, unfortunately, continues) has been hard on you in any number of ways. Your work life has changed (and maybe changed again), dealing with your kids’...

Sugar Can Be Addictive When we think of sugar, we are generally thinking of something positive. After all, most of us love sweets. And the good associations we have with sugar cause us to use the word in other contexts as well. We use the word as a pet name for a...

Here is something pretty obvious: Nicotine is an addictive drug. Here is something else that is pretty obvious: Recovery centers are in the business of helping people give up addictive drugs. And here’s a bit of a conundrum: Some recovery centers—including The Aviary...

Here’s the scenario: You have been out of treatment for a substance use disorder for a while now. Your recovery journey has not always been easy, but so far you have been able to use the strategies you learned and the resources you gained in residential treatment to...