By Elizabeth Hartney — 2020
Long-term recovery is not a final destination, but an ongoing process of facing and coping with life without retreating into addictive behaviors.
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Do you often find yourself struggling to change your habits, regardless of how willing you are to set objectives? If your goals rarely reach fruition, you are not alone.
After nearly two decades of hardcore drug addiction — after overdoses and rehabs and relapses, homelessness and dead friends and ruined lives — Gerod Buckhalter had one choice left, and he knew it.
There are many ways to work on self-development and self-improvement, but setting specific goals for personal growth can increase your likelihood of success.
Is the goal you have set actually achievable? Whilst humans are industrious, innovative, beings with massive potential for achievement, the goals we set need to be grounded in reality lest we set ourselves up for disappointment.
Here are some suggestions to help you navigate your relationship with alcohol or bring it to an end.
A first-of-its-kind study found that people who developed an alcohol use disorder did not seem to develop a tolerance to its pleasurable effects—contrary to prevailing theory.
Grappling with your thoughts will leave you even more entangled in worry. Use metacognitive strategies to break free.
The next time you pull a muscle and think, “Oh my gosh, not another one,” you may need to consider the location of your pain may not be the cause. If you are plagued with chronic muscle pulls or tendonitis-like symptoms you’ll need a more holistic approach to the problem.
Your breathing rate and pattern is a process within the autonomic nervous system that you can control to some extent to achieve different results.
When Dossey first came across experimental data in various journals showing that prayer affected positively the outcome of medical treatment, he wanted nothing to do with it.... Even so, the evidence seemed too convincing to ignore.