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Beating Addiction

Beating Addiction When the Holiday Blues Are Getting You Down Whenever Christmas and New Year’s come around and all the other holidays that surround it, it’s easy to get bogged down in feeling alone or depressed. This is especially true…
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Sober Life

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Sober Living

Sober Living Did you know that it takes more than 30 days to create a lifelong habit?  Since we know that sober living requires daily attention, this is the reason it is so important to have a structured, consistent environment during the…
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Sober Safe Enviroment

Sober Safe Environment One of the most important factors in the success of an addict’s treatment is a sober safe environment in which to recover.  These sober living properties provide a safe, controlled environment away from the daily…
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10 Tips for Protecting Sobriety During the Holidays and Preventing Relapse

The time to begin strategizing for the holiday party onslaught is now, at the outset of the festivities. We are hardwired by tradition to expect the next several weeks to involve joyous celebrations of the season, which in most cases has usually…
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Community in Sober Living

Community in Sober Living John Donne once wrote his Meditation, “No man is an island…every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main”. A man or woman who is on the journey of treatment and recovery for addiction cannot travel…
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Success in Chaos

Success in Chaos, Learning to Deal with Stress Dealing with stress when you’re in recovery is more difficult than anyone else dealing with stress. You have to struggle with your own issues while at the same time having to navigate through…
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Finding New Friends

Finding New Friends During Your Transition to Sober Living When you make the transition to your new sober living community, finding new friends is a crucial part of discovering how to move forward. You’ll understand new things about yourself…
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Safe Environments

Living in a safe environment while working through addiction recovery is a critical part of this successful process.  These environments serve as an interim facility between in-patient rehab and a return to the person’s normal living situation. …
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Sober Living

  Living a sober life means different things to different people. At its core it means to maintain one’s recovery while making life affirming changes.  By living a sober life, we lessen the likelihood of a relapse.  Using a 12 step…