When we hear about someone “working the 12 steps,” our minds go to recovery. After all, the 12-step treatment approach was developed to help people all over the world reach sobriety through Alcoholics Anonymous. You may have a close friend or loved one progressing through the 12-step treatment approach right now. If so, you probably […]
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Diabetes, a broken arm, a heart attack—these are all widely recognized as medical conditions. But what about a chronic brain disorder? How does it relate to addiction? In some cases, the patient may have even contributed to the onset. Right? And yet . . . A sedentary woman diagnosed with type 2 diabetes receives understanding,
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If you work as a first responder, I’d like to start by saying thank you. Secondly, if you are one of the millions of first responders battling addiction, I want to tell you, there is hope. We all owe a great debt of gratitude to our local emergency medical technicians, firefighters and police officers. You
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Where do you turn when you need help understanding addiction? There’s a book for that. They have a way of transporting us from all that we know into a completely unknown world—that is, from our own mind to the mind of the narrator. We see and understand things as they see and understand them.
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If you have an addiction, you’re an addict, right? No? OK, can I make a confession? As a writer, it pains me to mess with the easygoing flow of a sentence in order to meet a need for a client. Let’s say they want me to include the phrase “feathers of a peacock in
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The first step toward overcoming addiction is, like in so many other things, the hardest. And you just did it. That’s right. If you’re here, reading this article, you’ve already made your first bold move toward getting better. Of course, you’re also here because you want to know what to do next. And we want
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Rock bottom. A place none of us hope to see. And also: the spot from which we can only go up. After all, rock bottom is said to be where many people struggling with addiction finally reach out for help. They enter treatment, go through detox and begin a life of recovery. But what if
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Starting out another year singing the shoulda coulda wouldas of sobriety? You’re not alone. Getting sober is no easy task. It requires commitment on your part and support from others. And that’s what we’re here for! Participating in treatment might just be the thing that moves sobriety out of the realm of impossible into the
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What a year. Let’s revisit the collective roller coaster of 2020: Tiger King marathon followed by two weeks of total isolation Learning to look for the good followed by job insecurity or loss Gratitude for health followed by the tensest presidential election ever And it seems like the hits just keep coming.
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Addiction seems like an individual problem, doesn’t it? Logic says that it’s one person’s issue to deal with because it’s that one person who has an addiction. It makes perfect sense on the surface, but if we dig a bit deeper into that individual’s life, personal connections, history, and circumstances, it becomes clear that addiction
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