Living a Recovery Lifestyle with Tricia Parido
Recovery doesn’t stop once you leave the doors of the treatment facility. Rather, you have to work on living a recovery lifestyle. It’s beyond attending AA meetings or saying no to parties. It’s about being mindful and choosing to be intentional in how you want...
The Virtuous Cycle of Healing the Trauma with Serge Prengel
How do you develop the tools to attain recovery? Serge Prengel, the author of The Proactive Twelve Steps for Mindful Recovery, believes that while everyone is different, change will start to manifest itself through the power of a mindful pause. He also introduces this...
Challenge What You Know About The War on Drugs
The zero-tolerance that the system has put in place on their war on drugs is an antithesis of the help people need. When really, the goal is to get people in life, not just in a consistent loop of use. According to Dr. Benjamin Boyce, author of Dr. Junkie: One Man's...
Embracing Humanity: Meshing the Works of William James and AA’s Bill W. with Paul Schulte
What is the universality of the human condition? In his book, We Agnostics, Paul Schulte explains that a lot of work in Buddhism, Hinduism, Catholicism, Protestantism, Transcendentalism, Sufism, and Islam are all the same thing. This underlines the crisis of...
Pulling Yourself Out of the Vortex of Childhood Trauma with Michael Anthony
When you have a history of childhood trauma, there are things that you just have to unlearn and reframe. But to do that, you have to bring awareness to it. In the case of Michael Anthony, author of Think Unbroken, he went through such an unimaginable childhood:...
Healing as a Family: The Road to Addiction Recovery
A lot of families are sending their young adults to luxury-based treatment centers that aren’t necessarily therapeutic. This doesn't mean they need to be in a punitive environment. They just need to be in an environment where they engage in life and start adopting...
Healing Intergenerational Trauma with Wendy Adamson
How do you heal from addiction and alcoholism that you created? You may impact others through your addiction but you can also impact them through your recovery and healing. Wendy Adamson, the author of Mother Load and Incorrigible, explains the role of...
Transferring Your Grit From Addiction to Your Recovery with Mike Grant
When you're in recovery, building grit is so important because you've got to weather some difficult things. According to Mike Grant, author of (Re)Making A Sandwich: An Addiction Case Study, grit is a transferable skill that you can bring from addiction to...
Feeling Your Feelings and Being Okay With It with Justin B. Long
Many of the addiction issues among adults are caused by unfavorable events and traumas that occurred in childhood and have not been resolved. Feelings of guilt, shame, and rage are left buried in the deep pit of emotions. When triggered, those feelings begin to show...
Achieving Sobriety by Decoding the Science of Addiction
Not everyone's brain reacts the same to alcohol. Some people can process alcohol like a pro. However, as you abuse yourself with alcohol, it makes changes to your reward system and other areas of your brain. The release of endorphins causes you to feel amazing...
