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What If Your Sponsor Isn’t Working Out?
In a recent blog, we wrote about the importance of finding a sponsor to support you on your recovery journey. We talked about the ways in which a sponsor—a person who is farther along in their recovery than you are in yours—can provide support, advice, and...
Consider Finding a Recovery Mentor Instead of (or in Addition to) a Sponsor
We have devoted a couple of recent blog entries to sponsors. We considered what a person in recovery from a substance use disorder should look for in a sponsor, and we made some suggestions for ending a relationship with a sponsor when things don’t seem to be working...
Perhaps a Pet Would be Purr-fect for Your Recovery
A recent episode of the podcast Now & Then titled “Horses, Cats, and Chickens: Animal Power and Us” has us thinking about pets. In the episode, the two historians who host Now & Then—Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman—explore the many roles animals have...
Stick it to Stigmas Around Substance Use Disorders
It can be devilishly difficult to overcome a stereotype regarding substance use once it has taken hold in our collective imaginations. To understand what we mean, all you need to do is pay attention to the images that jump immediately to mind when you encounter the...
Improvise Inside the Form: Jazz as a Metaphor for Recovery
Are you a jazz fan? To be honest, that is kind of a tricky question to answer. After all, jazz is a word that can be applied to quite a number of styles of music. There’s big band jazz. There’s bebop. There’s fusion. Spend some time listening to jazz on the radio and...
We Want to Affirm that Affirmations Can Support Your Sobriety
As a rule, do you think of yourself as a positive person? Do you tend to focus on the good things in your life, expect the best of others, and look back on your past with happiness and pride? If you answered “yes” to those questions, we congratulate you. If, however,...
Are You and Your Recovery Ready for the Real World?
For some people, the moment of leaving residential treatment for a substance use disorder and returning to the “real world” can be a daunting, anxiety-inducing experience. After all, while in treatment you have worked hard to regain your sobriety in an environment...
Working Out the Ways Your Work Can Threaten Your Sobriety
Many people get great satisfaction from their work. They find their job meaningful, challenging, and rewarding. Other people find their work to be nothing but a slog. They dread going to work, they are bored at work, and they complain about work to anyone who will...
Celebrate While Sober This New Year’s Eve
If you were to rank holidays that are associated with free-flowing alcohol, you would probably put New Year’s Eve in the number one spot. Sure, there is lots of drinking on St. Patrick’s Day, on Cinco de Mayo, and on the Fourth of July (too often by people who also...
Here’s the Truth: All of These Addiction Myths are False
It’s probably true that almost everyone clings tightly to at least one false belief, even when it comes to addiction myths. You are taught something when you are young, and you find it hard to let go of that idea—even when it turns out to be mistaken. You find...