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20 Simple Recovery Resolutions for the New Year

With the New Year already in full swing,  it’s the appropriate time to think about your life in sobriety and what you’d like to accomplish in the days, weeks, and months ahead. But this isn’t the usual New Year’s resolutions list that millions of Americans proclaim they’ll work on. No, this list is purely for [...]

Build Relationships for a Successful Long-Term Recovery by Suzanne K

Most people who begin recovery have a lot of different ideas about how things will go. They may be filled with dread, fearful of making a mistake, over- or underconfident in their abilities to combat cravings and urges. It’s probably safe to say that most individuals in early recovery never think about sobriety as a [...]

How Being Too Critical Hurts Your Recovery Efforts

No one ever responds well to harsh criticism – especially those in recovery. While some self-criticism is likely inevitable, however, being too critical can do a great deal of damage to recovery efforts. Let’s look at why this might be and, more importantly, what you can do about your tendency to be too critical.  

Having Enough

When we’re in recovery, we always worry about having enough. Will we have enough courage to keep on going? Will we be able to find enough resolve to see through our recovery efforts? Will we discover enough creative solutions to keep from succumbing to cravings and urges? Will we have enough willpower and determination to [...]

Perserverance in Recovery

“On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain; either you will reach a point higher up than today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, 19th century German philosopher, writer, professor