by Rob Cline | Aug 1, 2024 | Addiction, Recovery
Three Recovery Strategies: A Breathing Technique, a Counting Technique, and a Gratitude Technique When you are in recovery for a substance use disorder, you know what your goal is: Maintain your sobriety. But while that is a fairly straightforward and clear goal, it...
by Rob Cline | Jul 11, 2024 | Addiction
In a recent blog entry, we encouraged you to take up journaling as a way to support your sobriety. We considered a number of different approaches that can be useful on your recovery journey. Still and all, it can be hard to start a journal. A blank page—whether in a...
by Rob Cline | Jun 21, 2024 | Addiction
When you think of a diary or journal, what comes to mind? Maybe you imagine a pink notebook outfitted with a tiny padlock to prevent prying eyes from reading your intimate thoughts. Maybe you imagine literary reflections on nature an account of an adventure or the...
by Rob Cline | May 17, 2024 | Addiction, Mental Health
Let’s face it: People can be really judgmental. People judge their coworkers: He sure seems to be out of the office a lot while the rest of us are stuck here working. People judge their neighbors: Can you believe how tall the grass is in their yard? People judge...
by Rob Cline | Apr 19, 2024 | Addiction
We live in the age of the reboot. For quite a number of years now, it seems like every television program and movie in the whole wide world has been remade, reimagined, relaunched—in a word, rebooted. There are so many examples, it is hard to know where to begin. But...
by Rob Cline | Apr 5, 2024 | Addiction
Recovery Ideas From the Arts Sometimes people think of “the arts” as some sort of lofty category of things that are reserved for a certain group of people. But the truth is that the arts are all around us. Professional artists—actors, writers, lighting designers,...
