Category: Anxiety

How stressed out are you feeling right now? It is an important question for everyone—and particularly important for a person who is in recovery from a substance use disorder. If you are like many people, the answer is probably somewhere between a little and a lot—and it might well edge… Read more: You Will Experience Less Stress with Less Mess

This post is the second and final entry in our short series about little habits that can serve you well in recovery. In the first entry, we identified four such habits: Start Your Morning by Setting Yourself Up for a Good Day Get in (at Least) a Little Exercise Pay… Read more: Little Habits Can Help a Lot in Recovery: Part Two

People tend to be focused on the big moments in life. You see this all the time in sports. Many baseball fans would rather see home runs than singles. Many football fans would rather see a long bomb of a pass downfield than a short running play that gains just… Read more: Little Habits Can Help a Lot in Recovery: Part One

No matter what sort of relationships you have with the various members of your immediate and extended family, there is no denying that family conversations can lead to tricky moments. That is true whether your relationships are warm or frosty—and odds are you have some of each. When we think… Read more: Facing Your Family’s Curiosity in Recovery

Recently, country singer/songwriter Davie Allan Coe passed away. He penned a song that Johnny Paycheck took all the way to the top of the country charts in 1977. That song, “Take This Job and Shove It,” became so popular that a movie with the same name came out in 1981.… Read more: A Recovery Lesson from a Famous Country Song