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Across a number of recent blog posts, we have been considering food and its relationship to your recovery journey. We started with three blog entries that took us from breakfast through a late night snack and considered what kinds of food supported your efforts to stay sober. We followed that...

In our “Focus on Food for Recovery” series (part one, part two, part three), we have been looking at healthy approaches to eating on a meal-by-meal (and snack-by-snack) basis. But it might be helpful to look at options for healthy eating from a different angle: What kinds and categories of...

This blog post is the third in a series about the ways in which your food choices do or don’t support your ongoing sobriety. In previous entries, we considered hydration and healthy breakfasts followed by a look at lunch and afternoon snacks. In this post, we will turn our attention...

Mission and Values statements are sometimes a mishmash. Some organizations have really pithy mission statements. Others have long, convoluted statements about what they are up to. And values statements run the gamut, too. Some are clear, some are confusing, and some are just vague to the point of meaninglessness. And...

In a recent blog entry, we started to explore eating options that support your ongoing recovery from a substance use disorder. In that entry, we took a look at what your best option might be for beverages (spoiler alert: it’s water) and how you might rustle up a healthy breakfast...

You know the old saying: “You are what you eat.” The idea, of course, is that if you eat healthy food, you will be healthier, and if you eat less healthy food you will be less healthy. The idea is similar to a statement you might hear from a computer...

There was a time when smoking cigarettes was considered the epitome of cool. More recently, the legalization of marijuana in various states has gone some distance toward destigmatizing smoking joints. And smoking crack or smoking meth have both had their cultural moments as activities emblematic of trends in drug use....

You have stopped drinking. Congratulations! Getting sober is a significant accomplishment and is worthy of (sober) celebration. You Are Now Sober, What’s Next But after the celebration comes vigilance. You already know that a substance use disorder can be treated but cannot be cured, so you know your recovery is...

We’re starting with the bad news in this blog entry: Every person who is in recovery from a substance use disorder is at risk of relapsing. It would be wonderful if going through treatment for a substance use disorder was a one-and-done proposition. A person could go through detoxification and...

You have no doubt heard the saying: “Laughter is the best medicine.” The saying is thought to be an update on a verse found in the Biblical book of Proverbs: “A merry heart doeth good like a medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones.” You will note that the...