Cocaine is a dangerous drug made infamous by its role in various celebrity overdose deaths, but you don’t have to be famous to develop a dependence on cocaine and experience devastating physical, mental, financial and social problems. A worsening substance abuse disorder can erode your well-being and quality of...
Methamphetamines are a Schedule II stimulant that work directly on the central nervous system and interfere with neurotransmission activity. Depending on the techniques used to produce it, meth might have a powdery form or can resemble rock salt or chipped ice. Regardless of its shape or appearance, meth has dangerous...
Mind, Body, Spirit Treatment for drug and alcohol addiction today is completely unrecognizable from the practices of decades past. There’s been a massive paradigm shift – from substance use as a moral failing to the disease model of addiction – that has informed many of the new therapies being used...
Even though addiction is destructive and debilitating for many of us, and one would think we’d want to be free of it as soon as possible, we nonetheless can have a very hard time getting help. Many of us who most need help with our recovery never get the...
Having a gratitude practice is a very useful and effective tool when dealing with depression, anxiety and other mental health issues, as well as addiction. Many of us might not have grown up thinking about gratitude as a practice. We might express our gratitude at certain times, before meals,...
Living with addiction and mental health issues means we’re often confronted with things and people that challenge our serenity and sense of peace. We’re presented with things that make us feel uncomfortable, stressed, anxious, angry, even depressed. Addiction creates all kinds of challenging situations in our lives, frustrating daily...
Meditation has many benefits for dealing with depression, anxiety and other mental health issues, as well as for helping us in our addiction recovery. One of the greatest misconceptions about meditation is that its primary aim is to empty the mind of all thoughts, and while this is possible,...
The ways in which we treat addiction and mental health issues tend to be cognitive in nature, talk-therapy for example. While our issues have a lot to do with our thinking, our thought patterns and limiting beliefs, our self-talk and our subconscious mind, they also have a lot to...
Those of us with mental health issues and addictions often find ourselves consumed by our painful emotions and difficult thoughts. We tend to compound our sadness, fear, shame and other challenging emotions, often without realizing it. We unconsciously perpetuate our difficulties by dwelling on them and giving them even...
When we are in recovery from our addictions and mental health issues, we can find tremendous healing in the natural world around us. Many people feel comforted and relaxed when in nature, and it can have significant benefits for our anxiety, depression and other challenges. Many of us associate being...
The decision whether or not to get professional help can be difficult for many of us. Often when we are trying to make this decision, we are in crisis, are very depressed, or have hit “rock bottom” in our addictions. During these times, we often feel heightened levels of...
Those of us who live with depression and anxiety have developed limiting beliefs about our mental health that can make them harder to cope with and recover from. As we struggle to keep our heads above water, these limiting beliefs are chipping away at our sense of self and...
When we are struggling with addictions and mental health challenges, reaching out for help can feel daunting, overwhelming and frightening. Sometimes we feel so ashamed of ourselves and our regrets that we don’t want to speak about them, let alone with a total stranger. We are afraid to deal...
Many of us living with addictions also struggle with anxiety, depression and other mental health challenges. We can tend to default to certain thought patterns that worsen our conditions and perpetuate them. We often aren’t mindful of these thought patterns, and we get can get so lost in them...
Often when we find ourselves presented with challenging situations, we tend to respond in fearful ways, in the forms of worry, doubt, anxiety and panic. We focus our thoughts on these feelings, and we allow them to consume us. We can use energy practices to help calm our fears. One...
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