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The 12 Steps are long. Long enough to take a moment to look back at your progress and reevaluate things you can improve on, go back and fix, add or remove from your life, etc. Step Ten is that moment. Steps one through nine are about removing addiction from your life and beginning the process of making amends with t more...

In addiction recovery one of the most crucial actions an individual can take is to cut ties with anyone who may pose a threat to your recovery, i.e. your old drinking or using friends. On the other side of the spectrum, one of the most important aspects of addiction recovery is restoring close ties with other individua more...

In Step Eight you constructed a list of the individuals you need to make amends with. While constructing that list you also considered how much damage had to be repaired and why you need each of these individuals in your new life in recovery. In completing Step Eight you must also become ready and willing to make am more...

Growing up my mom liked to play a game every Thanksgiving once we all sat down for dinner. She would ask everyone to go around the table and name a few things that they were grateful for. Our friends and family would then go around the table in turn and list things such as our health, new jobs, personal challenges w more...

In the past, drug and alcohol addiction had long been thought of as a man’s problem; a perception that seemed to seep into its treatment as well. Drug rehab was mainly catered towards men, and research subjects were almost exclusively men. However, addiction has now shed that stereotype and is currently affecting an more...

Relapse—an unwelcome guest for men in recovery. Relapsing from addiction recovery has developed a distinct stigma; one that suggests individuals have “failed” at recovery if they fall back into old habits. What’s important to remember is that relapse is an aspect of recovery that can happen to both men a more...

In active addiction we make mistakes – many of which can cause great harm to the people around us. From “borrowing” or stealing money, to causing physical and emotional harm, we can ultimately lose the relationships we’ll need to support us throughout recovery. Step Eight is the first step towards making ame more...

According to The U.S. Department of Justice, 61% of domestic violence offenders also have substance abuse problems. Felicia thought she had found the love of her life but instead she found herself in what seemed to be her worst nightmare. For years the mother of one lived in fear and anxiety that the next breath she t more...

In Step Six we ready ourselves to have our shortcomings removed; a difficult, but necessary step towards recovery. Step Seven is the perfect transition from the previous steps, wherein we took a moral inventory, shared it with our higher power and another human being and further readied ourselves for the final steps more...

Emergency room visits are five times more likely to occur on Halloween than on a “regular” weekend night. - The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) Halloween is tomorrow, and like many other holidays it is a day often marked by celebrations, which to varying degrees, involve alcohol or other illicit substances. more...