Does this sound familiar? Every time January rolls around, you purchase new gym shoes, study vegetable-based recipes (and subsequently buy a bunch of spinach), and commit to a year of gratitude, generosity, and physical exercise. You promise this year will be different. At the stroke of midnight, you swear to ... Read More
Health & Fitness
New Year, New Eats: Healthy Eating for 2020
Yay! It’s a new decade! Which means, there are new things that people are trying to accomplish is this new period of life. Some people are going after new careers; others are trying to get back into school. As for me, I’m trying to continue this healthy living, which, of course, means healthy eating. In ... Read More
The Gifts of Light and Laughter
I don’t suppose that the poet William Wordsworth had the holiday season in mind when he wrote these famous words: The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; After all, he was writing in the nineteenth century, long before the commercialization of ... Read More
Guarding Your Sobriety through the Holidays
"There’s no place like home for the holidays," according to the song made famous by Perry Como in the 1950s and played every holiday season ever since: Oh, there's no place like home for the holidays 'Cause no matter how far away you roam If you wanna to be happy in a million ways For the holidays you ... Read More
Thankfulness
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, we asked members of our community what they are thankful for. Below is a compilation of our top responses. Thank you so much to everyone who shared their responses with us, be sure to comment below what you are thankful for as we enter this season of gratitude and ... Read More
Force of Motion: Top 3 energy hackers and how to overcome them
Energy is force of motion and can be found in many forms. Our own unique vibrations are our energy. Our vibrations are the driving force to our manifestations and quality of life. People often look at human energy as a spiritual component, however, human energy is much more in-depth than that. Our energy is ... Read More
How To Manage Unsupportive People In Your Recovery Process
Sooner or later, it’s bound to happen. A snarky comment here. A condescending look there. We all know the benefits of healthy support in recovery, but not everyone is capable of providing that. And at some point (if it hasn’t happened already), you’re going to run across someone who knows exactly the wrong ... Read More
How Therapy Can Be Beneficial Even If You Have Long-Term Recovery
In my therapy practice, I have worked with hundreds of clients struggling with the deathly grips of addiction. Age, sex, socioeconomic status- the details on paper don’t matter. Substance use is one of the greatest equalizers in our society. It lurks on street corners in the beaten backpacks of homeless ... Read More
Self-improvement and Satisfaction in Daily Living: How to become your best self this October
For many of us fall means taking on more projects, working longer hours, and setting up our schedules for hour to hour demands. As the relaxing tone of summer sweeps away, stress creeps in. Stressors can leave you putting yourself on the back burner. Depending on your life’s demands you may feel as if you ... Read More
Yoga for Healing and Wholeness
“Stinkin’ thinkin’.” I remember hearing that phrase for the first time from a friend who was in a couple of different 12-Step groups. The saying points to something also understood in many spiritual circles, that the thinking mind—the part of us that lives in words and tries to figure things out—often gets us ... Read More