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Loving Yourself Through Treatment
Throughout the process of recovery, you will likely experience many hardships and obstacles. While each of these is possible to overcome, learning to love yourself is often one of the most challenging tasks. Lacking self-love can deteriorate your...
How Can My Physical Health Impact My Recovery?
The importance of mental health is often deeply explained within the recovery process. However, many individuals in recovery lack the understanding of the importance of their physical health. Ensuring your body is happy contributes to your mind’s...
The Benefits of Sober Living Houses
Sober living houses are commonly used to help individuals transition from treatment into their everyday lives. Taking advantage of the opportunity to stay in a sober living house is highly recommended if you are struggling to adjust to life outside...
The Benefits of Brainspotting
Brainspotting is a method of treatment that can help you access, process, and overcome trauma and pain. With this short-term therapeutic approach, you can develop the ability to open and close your feelings in a controlled manner to assist you...
Assessing a Patient’s Readiness to Change
Through the process of addiction recovery, your patient will go through a lot of changes. While change can be good, it can be intimidating for many people. Some patients will come into treatment with strong resistance to the idea of changing....
Maintaining Healthy Boundaries After Treatment
One common challenge that individuals face during the process of addiction recovery is the establishment and maintenance of healthy boundaries. Healthy boundaries are important for your relationship with yourself and your actions, as well as for...
The Importance of Expressing Gratitude
As you have worked through treatment and overcome various obstacles, you likely have a few specific individuals who you feel have supported you during some of the worst times and who helped you get to the place where you are now. Learning how to...
Clinical Evidenced-Based Practice
Evidence-based practice is important in many settings. In medicine, psychology, and addiction recovery treatment, evidence-based practice is commonly used. Not only can using evidence-based practice help us further our research, but it can also...
The Impact of Positive Thinking
Positive thinking can provide many benefits for both your physical and mental health. You likely experienced a variety of negative and positive emotions through treatment, and we hope you begin to experience more positivity as you continue your...
Developing Trust With a Patient
Trust is a very important facet to develop in the relationships with your patients. As you increase the level of trust between one another, you improve the recovery potential of the patient as well as your ability to develop an effective plan for...
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