Maintaining a Fitness Plan Throughout Recovery

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is paramount to success in recovery. This includes improving mental health as well as physical well-being. The physical body should not be overlooked in the recovery process. Mind and body are linked, and when you feel better physically, you usually start to feel better mentally. Physical health includes getting enough rest, […]

Nutrition Plans in Addiction Treatment

Proper nutrition can aid the body and mind, and it can enhance the healing process. For example, certain diet plans and foods can aid an addict in recovery by helping their metabolism, mental health, and organ function. Balanced and healthy diets can make you feel better, improving both your health and mood, and decreasing cravings […]

Promote Health & Wellness in Everyday Life

When you prioritize your health by making a few lifestyle changes every day, you increase your chances of remaining clean and sober for the long-term in recovery. Every single thing you can do to help yourself to feel better, more confident, happy, and healthy will improve your ability to manage stress and defy the urge […]

Self-Determination and Long-Term Recovery

The freedom to make your own choices is one of the first gifts given to you in recovery. During addiction, every choice you made was in service of addiction– how to get more drugs or alcohol and stay high was foremost in every thought and action. Now that you are free from physical and psychological […]

What Is the Long-Term Recovery Process?

In 2010, 1.6 million people entered treatment programs due to alcohol abuse, and 1.5 million people entered specialty treatment programs due to drug use, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health. The moment at which someone chooses to enroll in treatment is a profound one, as it signals a specific point in […]