Posts by: ASITRD
Does Kindness Matter When Trying to Stay Sober?
Staying sober in recovery is difficult. You will meet a lot of professional people in your road to recovery, and they will all want to help you. However, it’s not enough for a person struggling…
What Foods Have Healing Properties in Recovery?
Anyone who has had a substance addiction problem probably has unhealthy habits. Many people with addiction have damaged their short term and long term health as they don’t eat nutritious food. The food they do…
What’s it Like to Balance Motherhood with Sober Living?
Being a mother is tough work. There are the long hours, the lack of sleep, the little time for self-care. There are myriad ways for having children make life more challenging. There are also beautiful…
Is Relaxation Important for Healing?
When people think about recovery from addiction, they don’t often think of healing through relaxation. It may never occur to people, in general, to think of relaxation as being part of the self-care work of…
What Does Grief Look and Feel Like?
The mind is pretty incredible at coming up with ways to deal with what life throws at you. The body is also good at it, but sometimes it feels pretty horrible. Withdrawal from drugs or…
How to Deal with Aggression and Anger in Recovery
Addiction brings out people’s emotions, especially negative ones, that are challenging to deal with. Anger is a huge part of people’s lives in addiction as well as recovery. Recovery from addiction can override being able…
Why Change Doesn’t Happen Overnight and How to Embrace the Journey
It is hard to make good decisions to change how life is moving. One minute it seems to be moving one way, the next, an entirely different direction. When you make the crucial step of…
How to Cope While Staying Sober
Giving up an addiction to a new life can have benefits that extend far beyond anything you might imagine. However, it also comes with deep grief and sadness over the loss of the life you…
If Your Mind Won’t Rest at Bedtime, Try These Tips to Quiet Yourself for Sleep
Not being able to sleep, or insomnia can be really challenging for people in recovery. Unfortunately, many will wrestle with it because the brain and body are trying to adjust to not having drugs in…
There Are 3 Ways to Let Go of Stress Each Day: Here’s How to Start
Stress seems to be just a part of everyone’s lives now. It is part of who we are and what we do at work or at home. No matter what decisions you made while you…
