Recovery Blog

Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) has shown to be a great treatment for someone with borderline personality disorder (BPD). It actually helps many mental health conditions by focusing on emotion regulation and mindfulness.

6 months sober for an addict/alcoholic is a huge milestone. In your first 3 months of sobriety, you did 90 meetings in 90 days. Maybe you’ve kept this going and have done 180 meetings in 180 days.

If you’ve recently gotten sober, you might be worried that life isn’t going to be fun anymore, that everything is boring when you’re sober. That’s just not the case. There are plenty of fun things to do sober. Sober fun isn’t impossible. You just have to be willing to get out of your comfort zone.

Prescription opioid painkillers are among the most abused drugs in America. If you are aware of the opioid epidemic that has been ravaging North America for years, then you’re probably familiar with the drug called Fentanyl.

Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) is essentially another type of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). However, it has specific principles and teaches skills that are not typically a part of regular CBT.

The disease of addiction is a complex disease that is unlike any other disease. Many people think that addiction only affects the addict, but the truth is that what addiction does to the family is often just as bad as what it does to the addict, if not worse.

Step 1 of Alcoholics Anonymous is an important first step toward recovery. It’s the foundation on which the entire program is built, and it marks the beginning of your journey on the road to a better life. Taking this step can be difficult, but it's an essential part of recovering from alcoholism. However, many people struggle with this step.

Anger can easily go from mild to aggressive, and when a person finds that their anger is getting out of control, anger management in the form of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can help. CBT is psychotherapy that is used for many different issues including anger management.

Meth is one of the most dangerous drugs on the planet, both in terms of the impact it has on your health and how quickly it can devolve from recreational use to a full-blown addiction, which means that recovering from meth can be extremely difficult. When people do meth, either by smoking, snorting, swallowing, or injecting, they experience an intense and elevated mood that involves hyper-focus, hyper-awareness, and an intense feeling of euphoria that can last for many hours (and sometimes days).