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Trauma Disorder or Trauma Response? Part 2

April 27, 2022 By webadmin In Recovery Basics, Science of Addiction, Trauma

In part 1 you learned that your body has learned mechanisms of action that are keeping you stuck in addiction loops, may have you diagnosed with a mental disorder, and probably have you feeling pretty hopeless. Part 2 provides hope by providing a new lens of thinking about the trauma loop...

Trauma Disorder or Trauma Response?

April 27, 2022 By webadmin In Recovery Basics, Science of Addiction, Trauma

Did you know that your mental health symptoms might be a response to trauma you’ve experienced in your lifetime? The Journal of Mental Health states: 50 percent of individuals with severe mental disorders are affected by substance abuse. 37 percent of alcohol abusers and 53 percent of ...

Everything you know about addiction is wrong

April 27, 2022 By webadmin In 12 Steps, Recovery Basics, Science of Addiction

Johann Hari created a stir in the addiction world when he told that world that everything they have learned about addiction is wrong. The main finding of Hari’s addiction study? The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection.” Johann Hari June 2015, TedX...

Getting in Touch with our Desires

February 01, 2022 By webadmin In Recovery Basics, Trauma

What do you want? When we are caught in the throes of substance addiction the question we have often lose sight of is … “What do you want?” Our body has been so ravaged by addiction that our soul’s desires are erased. The wreckage of our struggle silences our soul, emaciated or bloats our bo...

Sick and tired of being sick and tired? Here are 22 ways to do sobriety differently in 2022 (Part 2)

January 03, 2022 By webadmin In 12 Steps, Family and Friends, LGBTQ+, Recovery Basics, Trauma

This week we are talking about the top 22 ways to stay sober in 2022. We’ve made a pretty good head start with numbers 1-11, so let’s dive in and finish our list! Take a class at your local community college. One thing we have seen with addicts is this consistent mindset that they can’t ...

22 ways to stay sober in 2022

January 02, 2022 By webadmin In 12 Steps, Family and Friends, LGBTQ+, Recovery Basics, Trauma

You’ve started down the road of sobriety (well done!) and you might have even made it through one or two of the first set of holidays (incredibly well done!). Now that the excitement (and distraction) of the holidays are over, how the heck do you stay sober this year? Work a program. W...

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Trauma Disorder or Trauma Response? Part 2

Trauma Disorder or Trauma Response?

Everything you know about addiction is wrong

Getting in Touch with our Desires

Sick and tired of being sick and tired? Here are 22 ways to do sobriety differently in 2022 (Part 2)

22 ways to stay sober in 2022

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