April 25, 2018
Alcohol problems can take a toll on every system in your body. Alcohol dependence can even make it difficult for your body to absorb essential vitamins and digest food. Nutritional deficiencie…
March 19, 2018
Recovery takes a lot of work, especially in the beginning. The addict has to change so much, including friends, sometimes jobs and always his or her way of thinking. The idea of adding a fitne…
January 16, 2018
Get up and get moving to keep substance abuse at bay! The holidays are over, winter has settled in and suddenly you aren't feeling as confident about recovery as you have been. You are not alo…
July 17, 2017
Insecure attachment is a key risk factor for the development of eating disorder (Bruch, 1982). A recent Netflix-produced drama (“To the Bone”) demonstrates the role of disturbed at…
July 12, 2017
How does booze really effect our brain, heart, and overall health of our body? We decided to take a closer look at whats really going on when alcohol is present in our systems. Even those "mod…
July 2, 2017
Too much exposure, especially in boys, may stunt social development. Brains at every age, especially developing ones, adapt to the environment in which they find themselves. What worries a gro…
June 27, 2017
On June 11, a New York Times article, “An Anxious Nation,” chronicled how our society has seemingly become one where the diagnosis of anxiety now rivals that of depression. Poignan…
June 25, 2017
For mental health professionals who often find their hands tied when coming up against bureaucratic red-tape, an overhaul of the health care system has been long overdue. However, cuts in fund…
May 14, 2017
On an April 2017 quarterly earnings call with reporters, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings stunned listeners when he mentioned a surprising competitor for his company’s streaming services. It's…
April 20, 2017
Although there can be many reasons for insomnia, ranging from anxiety to medical disorders, many of us experience difficulty sleeping, and especially in early recovery. An all-too-common solut…
April 6, 2017
In a recent interview, Depeche Mode’s frontman, Dave Gahan, discussed how years ago his heart stopped for minutes after an overdose. “This was a reminder of how hitting bottom befo…
April 6, 2017
America’s addiction epidemic has taken on momentum calling for innovative treatment programs that can deliver higher efficacy. The cost of sticking to the status quo in terms of human li…
March 22, 2017
The country is up in arms over how many people will lose health care under the Trump administration’s new health care plan. On Monday the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) published a re…
February 7, 2017
There has been a lot of talk about codependence with a commonly held belief that it means overly caring about what people think. Certainly overdoing anything can create problems. The general r…
February 5, 2017
One in three American adults don’t get enough sleep. Though Johns Hopkins Medicine reports that as many as ninety percent of North Americans respond to this chronic lack of sleep with a…
January 18, 2017
Mind-body therapies like meditation, acupuncture, and yoga have been practiced for thousands of years and offer practical methods to decrease stress levels and improve mood. But there’s…
January 15, 2017
Detoxification is a powerful aid for recovery from PTSD, depression and addictions. Detoxification refers to a cleansing or purification process. It involves the transformation and elimination…
December 14, 2016
Our Mental Health is just as important as our physical health. We tend to put these needs aside easier than the physical ones, but learning how to boost your mental strength will help you phys…
November 24, 2016
For many recovering addicts, sugar, caffeine and nicotine is the oh so comforting trifecta, and substitute for whatever substance they put down. Sugar may seem like a natural substitute for al…
September 25, 2016
Smoking cigarettes, like eating unhealthy foods, and buying things outside our budgets are often impulsive choices, ones we make again and again, all while knowing in the broad sense that they…
