The Aviary Recovery Center Blog
Getting on the Same Page – What to Expect from Family Therapy
A Family Matter If someone in your family is struggling with a substance use disorder, there’s a good chance that each family member is dealing with the situation in different ways. Maybe one of you wants to cut off all contact with the person who is drinking or using...
Furry, Feathery, or Even Scaly Friends Can Provide a Boost to Your Recovery
When times are tough, sometimes we just don’t want to talk about it—not with our friends or family, not with our therapist or sponsor, not with our church group or 12-Step crowd. Sometimes we just want to sit quietly. But even when we want to sit quietly, sometimes we...
Resist Relapse with This List of Tips
Looked at in a certain way, avoiding a substance use disorder relapse might seem like a simple, one-step process: don’t use drugs or alcohol. Not So Easy But as anyone in recovery knows, abstaining from drugs or alcohol can be far from easy. A substance use disorder...
Taking Care of Yourself Is the Key to Helping Someone Else
Is someone in your life struggling with a substance use disorder? Do you feel like it is your responsibility to support and take care of that person? Are you at a loss about how to help effectively? Are you exhausted from the effort? Taking Care of Yourself If you...
The Aviary Recovery Center Offers Medication-Assisted Treatment
At The Aviary Recovery Center, we are committed to using all appropriate and effective tools to help those battling a substance use disorder. To that end, we offer medication-assisted treatment (MAT) as part of our personalized, evidence-based approach to helping...
Unfair and Unhelpful: Women Experience More Stigma Related to Substance Use Disorder
For a while now, examples of how women are mistreated or discriminated against have been rightly highlighted in the ongoing conversations and struggles for a more equitable society. One area where public perception and policy still have a ways to go is in the...
A Little R&R – Ritual and Routine – In Recovery
Ritual and Routine: "Two Rs" in Recovery Back in the day, there was a popular little ditty about the “three Rs” of education: reading, ’riting, and ’rithmatic. You would be forgiven if you found it odd that a song about school goes out of its way to misspell “writing”...
Purge the Urge to Turn Back to Drugs with the Urge Surfing Technique
For people in recovery, the experience of intense cravings for drugs or alcohol can be extremely difficult to manage. These cravings—or urges—threaten your hard-won sobriety, and so it is absolutely essential that you have a plan for coping with them. There are lots...
Watch for Inspiration: Documentaries Can Offer Models of Hope and Heroism
Stuck At Home Let’s just admit that an awful lot of us are watching an impressive amount of shows and movies on various streaming platforms right now. The COVID-19 virus has us stuck at home and at loose ends—and sometimes sitting on the couch and watching the screen...
Is Your Inner Critic Too Influential? Tackling Negative Self-Talk
The Critic Imagine a theater critic watching a play or musical. The critic is, perhaps, sitting off to the side, unnoticed and scribbling in a notebook. The job requires making judgments about what works and what doesn’t work in the performance. Are the costumes...