Remember Why You Started If you feel like giving up, remember why you started. Is it because of family, friends, or just for yourself? If you’re a visual person, creating a ‘vision board’ and putting all the photos of the people you love could be a good idea. If you...

It's one of the hardest things to overcome on the road to recovery: shaking off that feeling of boredom. For some people, boredom during the recovery process can be easily overcome. But for others, it is a serious roadblock that can deter them from making a full...

For a lot of introverts, drinking alcohol and doing drugs helped them feel happy and act normal in stressful, social situations. Instead of dreading events and gatherings, introverts finally felt at ease in large groups of people with the help of one (or ten) drinks....

Going on vacations or traveling to other states are both exciting and daunting for recovering addicts. For one thing, there’s the risk of being exposed to drinking and partying in excess. But of course, with careful planning and a few other things, you can enjoy your...

Sometimes, it happens to the best of us: anxiety and overthinking. But during the recovery process, being constantly anxious and over thinking things could prove to be detrimental to the recovery process. So here are the steps you have to take in order to overcome...

The road to recovery is not paved and usually has unexpected twists and turns along the way. But not everyone thinks this way. People who want to recover usually have a clear image of what they want to achieve at the end of their stint in rehab: a perfect recovery....

For some people, fatigue sets in immediately after going cold-turkey and gets better after a few days. But for some folks, the chronic fatigue and brain fog that comes with sobriety doesn’t go away even after a few months or years. So how do you deal with it? Here are...

During the recovery process, negative thoughts arise and this could have potential consequences. But what if negative thoughts are not as evil as we think it could be? Part of Evolution Some scientists think that negative thoughts or negative thinking are part of our...

What is self-control? Do we equate it to willpower? For some people, will power and self-control are one and the same. In a survey regarding healthy lifestyle choices and overcoming addictions, people regularly cited the lack of willpower as the main reason why they...

Everyone knows that anything in excess (be it alcohol or even “superfoods”) can be bad to the human body. But it’s so easy to ignore this fact when one has already imbibed one too many a drink. Here are the facts on alcoholism and its various effects on different...