by Rob Cline | Feb 25, 2025 | Recovery, Addiction Recovery
We all feel a range of emotions every day. We might feel happy, disappointed, frustrated, grumpy, and more all in the course of a single afternoon. As a rule, emotions come and go, which means that whatever you are feeling at any given moment is going to change soon...
by Rob Cline | Feb 4, 2025 | Addiction, Recovery
Daylight Saving Time has wrapped up for 2020. On the one hand, many of us truly enjoy the extra hour of sleep we can grab on the night we turn our clocks back. But we also know that the switch to standard time means it will grow darker earlier in the evening—and that...
by Rob Cline | Jan 28, 2025 | Recovery
We commonly talk about recovery from a substance use disorder as a journey. It is a useful metaphor because it highlights the ways in which recovery is always unfurling in front of us and can only be traversed one step at time. In this entry, however, we want to make...
by Rob Cline | Dec 12, 2024 | Addiction, Recovery
Have you ever known a dog that just barks all of the time? Maybe there is such a creature in your neighborhood. Maybe there is such a creature in your very own home. A dog that barks when a package or mail is delivered. A dog who barks at other dogs they encounter on...
by Rob Cline | Dec 5, 2024 | Recovery, Addiction Recovery, Alcohol Recovery, Healthy Living
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...
by Rob Cline | Oct 21, 2024 | Recovery, Addiction Recovery
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 programmer:...