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Conquering Fear of Relapse

“When we step into the unknown we are free of the past. When we step into the unknown we are free of every limitation because fresh choices are available in every moment of our existence.” – Deepak Chopra, Indian-American public speaker and writer on Ayurveda, spirituality, and mind-body medicine (born 1946)

Slip Sliding Away: What to Do if You Are Ready to Relapse

If you’re in recovery and you get that sinking feeling that you’re about ready to relapse, don’t despair. There are some things you can do to help get yourself back on the steady road to improvement that have worked for many others and may very well work for you.

Picking Up the Pieces After Major Relapse by Guest Writer Suzanne K

In recovery, sometimes people slip. Sometimes they fall big time. It can be frustrating and crazy-making trying to figure out what to do in either case, but when you completely collapse, doing what’s right may mean the difference between life and death. With so much at stake, how should you go about picking up the [...]

5 Warnings Signs of Impending Relapse

If you are active in a 12-step program like AA you have likely seen people come and go – it can be heartbreaking when someone you admire relapses and disappears from the rooms. Your greatest hope is that they will show up again, but sometimes they simply don’t.  For this reason, avoiding relapse is absolutely [...]

Do You Ever Get Tempted to Have “Just a Little?”

I know people do get tempted, because if they didn’t, we wouldn’t see relapses. But what is it that leads a person who clearly devastated their life with drugs and alcohol to give up on the positive path of recovery?  I think there is one word for what causes it: FEELINGS.