Is Your Teen a High-Functioning Alcoholic?
If your teenager is regularly abusing alcohol, it is possible that they are able to keep this part...
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Category: Alcoholism
A Question for Your Inner Voice: Whose Side Are You On?
When you buy a favorite movie or television program on DVD or Blu-ray, there is often a commentary...
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Reasons to Quit Drinking and Smoking
As a rule, most of us have a pretty good idea of the sorts of things we should do—and should not...
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Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders – Don’t Focus on Which Came First
Here’s a classic brainteaser: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Eggs come from chickens...
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When You Love Someone with a Substance Use Disorder – Three Perspectives
When someone you love is struggling with a substance use disorder, it can seem as if you are all...
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Four Reasons to Give Up Alcohol and Turn Your Life Around
Give Me One (More) Reason You have probably heard the Tracy Chapman song “Give Me One Reason.” The...
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Hold On Tight. We’ll Muddle Through: Taking Your Sobriety One Day at a Time
Life, Sobriety, and One Day at a Time Sometimes it seems like life is simply going to overwhelm...
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Addiction Has No Age Limit: A Look at Substance Use Disorders and Senior Citizens
No matter what age you are, life has a way of providing plenty of challenges and stressors that...
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Summertime Solutions for Those Who Are Trying to Stay Sober
Summer is just around the corner, and vaccinations for COVID-19 may make it possible to return to...
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Stay on Top of the Dangers of Fixating on ‘Rock Bottom’
Taking Action Matters Imagine you nick your finger while cutting up some vegetables for dinner....
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Alcohol Awareness Month
April is Alcohol Awareness Month. Sometimes alcohol and the problems it can cause are overshadowed...
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For Functioning Alcoholics, Everything May Seem Fine—But It Absolutely Isn’t
We probably all have an image of an alcoholic in our mind. Media representations of a typical...
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- Don’t Let Fear of the Unknown Keep You Out of Treatment
During his first inaugural address, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt famously told the nation, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” It is an inspiring line, to be sure. But in our day-to-day lives, we tend to be afraid of all sorts of things. Spiders or heights or… Read more: Don’t Let Fear of the Unknown Keep You Out of Treatment - Mindfulness and Yoga Can Support Your Recovery
When you are in recovery from a substance use disorder, it is extremely important to stay focused on your ongoing and most important goal: staying sober one day at a time. That is easy to say and hard to do. In fact, with so many demands on our attention, your… Read more: Mindfulness and Yoga Can Support Your Recovery - Pick a Path for Dealing with a Substance Use Disorder
Maybe you have read a book—or a number of books—in the popular “Choose Your Own Adventure” series. These books lay out a story for a page or two and then offer the reader a choice. Each choice is followed by a page number: If you want to do X, turn… Read more: Pick a Path for Dealing with a Substance Use Disorder - Goals, Routines, and Flexibility Support Sobriety
There are several ways to think about a hammer. For example, Adam Savage of Mythbusters fame (an inspiration for a series of our blog entries) titled his memoir Every Tool’s a Hammer. On the other hand, in the 1960s, Abraham Maslow (drawing from a thought by Abraham Kaplan) wrote, “it… Read more: Goals, Routines, and Flexibility Support Sobriety - Be Grateful, Mindful, and Hopeful in Recovery
Have you heard of the “negativity bias”? In the aptly named article “What is Negativity Bias?,” Kendra Cherry explains it this way: The negativity bias is our tendency not only to register negative stimuli more readily but also to dwell on these events. Also known as positive-negative asymmetry, this negativity… Read more: Be Grateful, Mindful, and Hopeful in Recovery