At first, emerging from years (or even decades) of a drug or alcohol-induced haze is exhilarating. Reality hasn’t quite settled in yet, you’re feeling rejuvenated,…
Opinions. The best and worst thing about them is that we all have our own. Unfortunately, many people use the idea of subjectivity as a…
Exercise in recovery is one of the best ways to make sobriety into a lifestyle. With our in-patient program, we’ve found that men in particular…
Addiction is different for everyone, and it’s easy to point fingers. It’s easy to say “Well, maybe you shouldn’t have taken the drugs in the…
Statistically, your personality type doesn’t have much bearing on whether you’ll be an addict or alcoholic. Introverts and extroverts experience problems with substance abuse across…
You know what’s worse than having to accept change? Hearing platitudes about the necessity of accepting change. There are few things more tiresome than a…
My body has been viscerally seized by the news of a suicide twice in my life. The first was a Thursday almost twenty years ago…
“When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.” – Barack Obama PSA:…
What are some of your favorite past times? I’ll tell you what’s not going to be on that list . . . sitting down and…
Millennials get flack for a lot of crap: failure to launch, job hopping, wanting to have a career that is meaningful (pfft, ridiculous right?)… but…