by Carley Smiddy | Mar 12, 2020 | Health & Wellness, Recovery
Self-awareness is the cornerstone of emotional intelligence. It helps you regulate your emotions, motivate yourself, and relate to others. In the context of recovery, self-awareness is crucial. Having insight into what drives your addictive behavior, what causes...
by Carley Smiddy | Jan 23, 2020 | Addiction, Health & Wellness
Chronic pain is one of the biggest health challenges someone can face. Chronic pain is unpleasant in itself and can seriously damage your quality of life. It’s also one of the few things that has been shown to lower your happiness setpoint. In other words, after a...
by Carley Smiddy | Oct 12, 2019 | Addiction Recovery, Health & Wellness
Getting plenty of quality sleep is one of the best lifestyle changes you can make when recovering from addiction. Getting enough sleep reduces symptoms of depression and anxiety, it improves your concentration, memory, and emotional regulation, it helps you learn new...
by Carley Smiddy | Jul 14, 2019 | Drug Facts & Resources, Health & Wellness
Many assume college is too young for someone to develop an addiction, but emerging adulthood, from ages 18 to 25 is the highest risk period for developing a substance use disorder. It’s a time of increased freedom and major life changes, such as leaving home, getting...
by Carley Smiddy | Nov 3, 2018 | Addiction, Health & Wellness
“To drink is to die” is a phrase you’re bound to hear if you spend enough time in the rooms of 12-step fellowships like Alcoholics Anonymous. It is largely believed that there is no other drink in the journey of a drunk which causes the problem of alcoholism other...
by Carley Smiddy | Sep 12, 2018 | Assessment & Services, Health & Wellness
Addiction and alcoholism are a response to stress. Put another way, turning to drugs and alcohol is a stress management response, albeit a poor and damaging one. Stress is not something which happens outside of the body, to us. Stress is something which is actively...
