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What Is “Evidence-Based” Addiction Treatment?

Everywhere you look, you may come across certain recovery buzzwords that catch your eye but do not provide enough information for you to decide with what to do next. One of those statements may include “evidence-based” as part of their description of their addiction treatment. Seeing “evidence-based” might cause you to perceive the professionalism of […]

How Do I Communicate With My Higher Power?

Recovery suggests finding a higher power as a means to gain the direction and strength needed to stay sober. The intangibility of a higher power, however, can keep a person from grasping the concept of faith. Trying to communicate with your higher power may seem foreign and impossible because someone may be looking for something […]

Are There Coincidences in Recovery?

Have you ever encountered something that you could not believe happened the way it went down? Eerily, you may have wondered how in the world did that even occur for me? If this something that you have experienced, you may be confused as to what ensued especially if you have a difficult time with accepting […]

What is a Higher Power?

What is a Higher Power?

One of the ways people in a 12-Step program become alienated is when they hear they must find a Higher Power. The most confusing part of the Higher Power is that some members of a 12-Step program chose to call their Higher Power “God”. For someone who considers themselves an agnostic or an atheist, the […]