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Building a Budget Supports Your Recovery

Building a Budget Supports Your Recovery

Even if you have a steady job that provides a reasonable paycheck each week or month, you probably find yourself worrying about money from time to time. After all, surprise expenses—like car repairs, medical treatment, increases in rent or utility costs—seem to pop up all the time. At the same...

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Your Mission, If You Choose to Accept It, Is Not Impossible

Your Mission, If You Choose to Accept It, Is Not Impossible

A new Mission Impossible film is in theaters as we write this blog entry, the seventh entry in Tom Cruise’s ongoing adventure series based on the television series from the late 1960s and early 1970s (which was briefly revived in the 1980s). Cruise got into the action—quite literally—in the mid-1990s,...

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The Entanglement of Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders

The Entanglement of Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders

Chickens are at the heart of at least two deep mysteries.  First, there is the eternal question: Why did the chicken cross the road? We must admit we do not have any particular insight into the motivations of chickens when they arrive at the side of a road. So, let’s...

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A Look at Your Work and Your Recovery

A Look at Your Work and Your Recovery

For most of us, going to work is an essential part of our lives. Whether you love or hate your job (or fall somewhere in the middle), you need the work because you get paid to do it. Making money is—for better or worse—what allows you to pay your rent...

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Put Together the Pieces of the Recovery Puzzle

Put Together the Pieces of the Recovery Puzzle

Lots of people enjoy solving puzzles, and there are plenty of puzzles out there to solve. There are word puzzles and number puzzles and matching puzzles—and seemingly endless varieties of each category. Just look at this list of Wordle variations!  For the purposes of this blog post, however, we are...

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Recovery Advice in Six Sets of Three

Recovery Advice in Six Sets of Three

Have you ever heard of the “rule of three”? It is an idea in the performing arts, the visual arts, and storytelling that suggests that the number three makes themes, actions, or traits more memorable while also providing a sense of rhythm, balance, and wholeness (hey, look at that: the...

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Tackle the Challenges of Your Ongoing Recovery

Tackle the Challenges of Your Ongoing Recovery

You have probably experienced a time when you needed to do something difficult but found yourself reluctant to do it. Maybe it was a big, important project at work that could make or break your chances for a promotion. Maybe it was a difficult conversation with a friend or family...

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Go to Recovery Meetings. Do Not Go to Old Haunts.

Go to Recovery Meetings. Do Not Go to Old Haunts.

Most everyone is familiar with the Monopoly board. The game features a whole bunch of properties that players compete to purchase and develop as they attempt to bankrupt their opponents. The four corner squares are not properties at all, but they can have a big impact on the game. Those...

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Three Ways Mindfulness Practice Can Support Recovery

Three Ways Mindfulness Practice Can Support Recovery

Mindfulness is a practice that has its roots in Hinduism and Buddhism but has become a largely non-religious activity that many people engage in for a variety of reasons. The practice can be useful for those in recovery from a substance use disorder in a number of different ways. In...

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Make the Most of Music in Recovery

Make the Most of Music in Recovery

Some songs just seem to arrive in our ears as though they were written specifically for us. These are the songs we are always excited to hear. They make us feel happy or nostalgic or energized or connected to others in ways that are not always easy to explain but...

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