How to remain abstinent maintain during the holidays It’s the end of the year and the beginning of the holiday season – a time for celebration with friends and family! However, for persons in…
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Serenity
The hallmark of addiction recovery If you look at a recovering person who for many years made a career out of drinking, overeating or caretaking, and noticed how relaxed and…
Forgiveness
A part of addiction recovery Addicts and alcoholics in early recovery experience the healing and freedom of forgiveness. During active addiction, alcoholics may have heard about forgiveness, and they thought…
Rejection in Addiction
How to deal with it in recovery Rejection is not easy under any circumstances. For the alcoholic or addict who may be feeling rejected or dishing rejection, rejection is a…
Tolerance to Alcohol
One of the first warning signs of alcoholism The word tolerance has many meanings. To most people, tolerance denotes a capacity to consume large amounts of alcohol without passing or…
Honesty
Why is honesty important in addiction recovery? Recovery from addiction starts with detox, a medically supervised process for getting the body rid of toxins. After that, recovery is a life-long…
Home Detox Programme
Many people would prefer to be treated at home for any illness and we know that this is particularly true of people…