How to Meditate to Aid Your Recovery

Addiction recovery can feel like a roller coaster, especially at the beginning.  Your body can feel fuzzy now that you are no longer using drugs, and cravings can be intense.  Meditation can help you navigate the treacherous waters of addiction recovery, and help you connect with yourself and with the universe.  There are many health […]

How Yoga Can Strengthen Your Recovery

Yoga is a gentle, yet powerful form of physical exercise that incorporates ancient spiritual principles. It remains one of the oldest spiritual disciplines that humans have ever practiced, and when you consider the many benefits that yoga can offer, it’s easy to see why. Here is a look at the many benefits that yoga can […]

Nutrition to Fuel Your Recovery

Proper nutrition during addiction recovery is essential for giving your body the nutrients it needs as it continues to heal, and for increasing your overall sense of wellbeing. So much of recovery is about creating a wholesome, fulfilling lifestyle that replaces addiction, not to mention that it’s vital to replenish your body with the nutrients […]

Your Resolution to Exercise Could Help with Addiction

More exercise is among one of the most common New Year’s resolutions made, and while for many it’s a matter of losing weight, it could actually help those facing addiction overcome their addictions, as well—all according to a new study at Johns Hopkins University.

Planning a Successful Intervention

A drug or alcohol addiction often isn’t difficult to spot if you know what to look for. And this means that friends or family members of an addict may need to intervene before it becomes too late to address the addiction. If you have a loved one who you think might need an intervention, here […]

Common Fears that Keep Addicts away from Treatment: Part 1

One of the most common obstacles that besets individuals who are considering seeking treatment for their addictions is fear. Fear of failure, fear of sobriety, fear of success—these are only a few of the types of fear that an addict might harbor prior to seeking treatment. Here is a look at the first four of […]

5 Adventure-Oriented Activities to Try this Summer

As the weather gets warmer, you’re likely itching to get outside and experience the warm weather and active lifestyle that summer weather has to offer. Adventure oriented activities are especially great for recovering addicts to try because they can help to build strength, increase mental stamina, and serve as positive actions that replace old habits […]

5 Tips to feel more Blissful & Grateful

5 Tips to feel more Blissful & Grateful = More Happiness! Did you know that gratitude has been scientifically proven to strengthen your immune system and make you happier and more optimistic, as well as less lonely and isolated? It’s true, and although science has just recently caught up to this fact, the Buddhists have […]

The Magic of Inspiration

The Magic of Inspiration, the magic it brings, and the hope it restores. Inspiration is similar to the flicker of a candle, the raging flow of a waterfall, or a gust of wind.  It lifts us with its power to overtake our being and then it can disappear as mysteriously and instantaneously as it came.  Inspiration definitely a […]

Self Empowerment – Inner Striptease

Self Empowerment – The Inner Striptease Challenge I get asked all the time how I am able to stay so calm during some of the ost alarming situations; my quick / funny answer is “The Inner Striptease”, my long winded answer is always “Self Empowerment”. Be inspired by people doing the “Inner Striptease” and “stripping […]