Category: Recovery
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Sober Date Ideas and Tips For Those in Recovery
For those recovering from a drug or alcohol addiction, dating can be a complicated and confusing world. When you finally decide to start dating again, there are several things you should consider before taking the first step towards a relationship.
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5 Ways to Practice Self-Forgiveness in Recovery
Self-forgiveness is essential for healing and moving forward in recovery. Use this insight to learn how to practice it in your own journey.
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Family Roles in Addiction and Their Impact on Recovery
Addiction and recovery are extremely personal experiences. However, your family (whether biological or chosen) is also impacted by your addiction, and can play an integral role in your recovery.
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5 Benefits of Group Therapy
Recovery can often feel isolating, but group therapy offers a sense of community and shared experience that can make all the difference. In this post, we’ll explore how group therapy helps develop the skills needed to stay sober long-term.
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Get Help for Addiction and Mental Health During the Holidays
The holidays tend to shine a spotlight on issues that may be easier to downplay during other times of the year. With all the memories and challenges that seasonal festivities can bring up, the last thing you want to lose is your sobriety during the holidays.
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Claudia Black’s “Undaunted Hope” Shares Stories of Inspiration
Dr. Claudia Black’s new book Undaunted Hope is not just filled with stories of addiction and recovery; it’s brimming with tales of lives made new, of trauma understood and uprooted, and of the personal transformation that can come from asking for help and receiving it. Meadows Senior Fellow Dr. Black/(for CBC:)Meadows Senior Fellow Dr. Black…
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Building a Recovery Tribe: 11 Ideas to Try Today
While mental illness thrives on the very isolation that it creates, recovery requires connection. To heal, we must build a tribe.
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Becoming Me: My Eating Disorder Recovery Story
A The Meadows Ranch alum discusses her brave journey towards eating disorder recovery and how our treatment program helped.
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Bad Therapy
Therapy is helpful … except when it isn’t. While getting therapy can be a critical part of addressing mental health issues, behavioral health problems, and a variety of life challenges, bad experiences with therapists can turn many people away from what is normally a lifeline for healing. It adds insult to injury when you are…
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Why the 12-Step Approach Still Works
In the world of recovery programs, however, there are a number of reasons why the 12-Step approach has stood the test of time and varying trends along the way. For nearly 100 years, this proven method has helped those who struggle with addiction to not only get well, but stay well.
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Investing in Aftercare
Picture yourself on the heels of completing an addiction treatment program. Your willingness to participate, the important help you’ve received along the way, and your hard work in seeing it through have all led to a healthier you. Now what?
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Healthy Intimacy In Recovery
If you’re finding your way free from addiction, building intimacy in recovery may be one of your goals. If it isn’t, you may be wondering why it’s such a big deal. If you take a look at how addiction may have disrupted your existing relationships or made it nearly impossible to form healthy new ones,…