Monthly Archives: October 2019

Can the Decluttering Trend Apply to Recovery?

Can the Decluttering Trend Apply to Recovery?

Getting rid of the things that no longer bring you joy by either dropping them off at a consignment store or posting them on the Offer Up app to make some quick cash is all the rage. Part of the process is purging your junk so that you can have a real appreciation for your […]

Tips to Fundamentally Navigate Sobriety

Tips to Fundamentally Navigate Sobriety

When you were born, you had to learn how to do everything including breath, eat, walk, and everything else that is involved with becoming a functioning human being. Things that you may take for granted now as an adult, you discovered as a developing child such as throwing a ball, tying a shoelace, and writing […]

Tips for Etiquette at 12-Step Meetings

Tips for Etiquette at 12-Step Meetings

Meetings for a 12-Step program are one of the keys to getting connected in your sobriety. Other people who are also trying to stay sober come to these meetings to get the tools and the solution that they need to better understand their addiction while learning what they need to do to recover from it. […]

Does Detox Center of Colorado Offer Neurofeedback?

Does Valiant Living Offer Neurofeedback?

Now that mental health and addiction is a mainstay in our culture, there are have been therapies that have been offered more readily. Neurofeedback is one of those innovative therapies that has created some breakthroughs in people’s lives that helped them tremendously with their struggles in addiction and in mental health which are beneficial in […]

Tips to Help You During a Natural Disaster Crisis

Tips to Help You During a Natural Disaster Crisis

Hurricane Dorian recently hit Florida, The Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Lesser Antilles, and Atlantic Canada causing colossal damage. Although there was plenty of coverage and warning about the arrival of Dorian, there is immense anxiety in the anticipation of a natural disaster which also includes tornadoes, floods, tsunamis, earthquakes, and erupting volcanoes. During these occurrences, there […]

How Do I Help an Addicted Loved One Who Doesn’t Want My Help?

How Do I Help an Addicted Loved One Who Doesn’t Want My Help?

Walking on eggshells can become the norm when you are around a loved one who has become addicted to drugs and alcohol. You know that they need help, or they could be put in jail, committed to an institution, or worse, die from the insidiousness caused by their drinking and using. Since you are so […]

How Do I Tell the Truth with Couth?

How Do I Tell the Truth with Couth?

In recovery, you were probably instructed to tell the truth; the truth will set you free, however, telling the truth has continued to get you in trouble more times than you would like to count. Telling the truth must be tapered down to get the results of truth-telling that you are attempting to achieve. What […]

Why Being Sober Doesn’t Have to be Scary on Halloween

Why Being Sober Doesn’t Have to be Scary on Halloween

Every year at the end of October, parties galore can be found to celebrate Halloween. There is something about being able to dress up as your favorite character and let them become your alter ego. For those who can drink and use, Halloween is a great time to get drunk and high especially when you […]

What You Need to Know about Mushrooms

What You Need to Know about Mushrooms

One of the recent trends that have become prevalent again is the use of mushrooms. Not the kind of mushrooms that you sauté up into a delicious meal. The kind of mushrooms that are psychedelic in nature to make a person “trip”. Mushrooms of this variety have gone in and out of popularity due to […]

What Do My Drinking and Using Dreams Even Mean?

What Do My Drinking and Using Dreams Even Mean?

Once you got sober, you may have started remembering your dreams more vividly. Waking up after falling asleep naturally, rather than passing out, could make it easier for you to recall something in your dreams that could be really amazing such as flying, or something really awful like drinking and using again. Thankfully when you […]

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