Category Archives: Recovery

What is Keeping You from Achieving Spiritual Enlightenment?

Spirituality

As you progress through your recovery, you start to see the necessity of connecting to a Higher Power as a means of staying sober. The problem that you are running into is that you are having a difficult time trying to achieve spiritual enlightenment. While you may have thought that finding your spiritual way would […]

How to Navigate Through Uncertainty with Sobriety

Navigate

Life is full of twists and turns, which can create feelings of adversity when you are really looking for some triumph. More people have found themselves fearing the unknown with the state of the world and the uncertainty of a country divided by a global pandemic. Luckily, a recovery program was made to navigate these […]

What Do My Character Defects Even Mean?

As you started making your way through the 12-Steps, your primary intention was to learn about yourself. It is crucial to spot the patterns in your life that hold you back. In this way, you can identify your character defects and be rid of them or turn them into strengths. The problem with discovering your […]

Can I Stay Sober at a Wedding?

Sober at Wedding

As June kicks off the summer months, we find ourselves in the “wedding season”. Couples love to say their nuptials in front of friends and family when the weather is beautiful, and they can celebrate with cake and a champagne toast. Many couples cannot imagine getting married without including alcohol to take away the jitters […]

Tips to Build Your Recovery Tool Kit

Tool Kit

As you make your way through your recovery with a one-day-at-a-time mantra, what you do today can help you to project for tomorrow. Seeds are planted in hopes of future growth, just like recovery tools are instilled for everyday recovery use. In the same sense, tools build the foundation of your sobriety as the seeds […]

Johnny Lowe: The Family Afterward

Johnny Lowe: The Family Afterward

April 2nd was a proud day for actor Rob Lowe. His son, Johnny Lowe, celebrated his 2-year sobriety milestone at the beginning of April at 25 years old. After not really talking about getting sober before now, Johnny took to Instagram to share what it was like and what it is like now. He posted […]

Red Table Talk: Addiction Special

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Technology keeps creating different platforms to help get more information across. Facebook Watch, a place where videos can be viewed on Facebook, has a web television talk show with hosts that span three generations. Jada Pinkett Smith alongside her mother, Adrienne Banfield-Norris, and her daughter, Willow Smith, are all hosts for this made for Facebook […]

What Zoom Meetings Are for Recovery

What Zoom Meetings Are for Recovery

With the recent events surrounding the pandemic, recovery meetings have been affected all-round. Shelter in place means that many businesses were influenced by these changes including churches and spaces for rent, which are where many 12-Step meetings meet. Huge measures were taken by local authorities to make sure people were social distancing and not meeting […]

Why Cinco De Mayo Might Sink Your Recovery

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May 5th is one of those days where drinking and abusing drugs is socially accepted. This inebriated holiday is legendary for booze-fueled happy hours and consuming copious amounts of drugs due in part to Mexico gaining its freedom back in 1862. This day has really changed its meaning over the last 158 years especially by […]