Tag Archives: Recovery Process

What is Trauma-Informed Care?

What is Trauma-Informed Care?

Taking care of your trauma involves being careful as you do not want to do anything that can bring those feelings of trauma back to you. It is best to find a form of therapy that can help you accomplish that. By taking part in trauma-informed care, you can learn more about your trauma and […]

Visiting a Loved One In Rehab – Do’s & Don’ts

Visiting a Loved One In Rehab – Do’s & Don’ts

Friends and family members try hard to support the ones they love in rehab and want to see them as often as possible. However, often times friends and family don’t understand what’s expected of them or how to act once they enter a facility. And even with the best intentions, visits in rehab can sometimes […]

Why Hope Is So Critical for Post-Traumatic Growth in Recovery

Why Hope Is So Critical for Post-Traumatic Growth in Recovery

For many people in addiction recovery, trauma is an underlying commonality. For many of us, traumatic experiences – whether they be from an assault, an accident or a natural disaster – can have such a significant impact on our mental, physical and spiritual health that we rely on substances to numb the pain. Once in […]

Emotional Wellbeing in Dual Diagnosis Recovery: What Helps Us Grow

Emotional Wellbeing in Dual Diagnosis Recovery: What Helps Us Grow

We often talk about mental health and the importance of maintaining a healthy psychological state of mind, but there’s another important side to the story: emotional wellbeing. It plays a part in the bigger picture of mental health, but it’s still a crucial aspect of healing that deserves special attention. Selfgrowth.com, a website that publishes […]

Where Self-Care Meets Healing and Restoration in Addiction Recovery

Where Self-Care Meets Healing and Restoration in Addiction Recovery

A common buzzword in mental health, lifestyle and addiction recovery platforms, “self-care” has become increasingly popular over the past year – but what exactly does it mean? While everyone could technically define self-care in their own way, Habits for Wellbeing, a website that publishes content related to mental, physical and spiritual wellness, highlights what self-care […]

Defining Mental Health Recovery and What People Need to Thrive

Defining Mental Health Recovery and What People Need to Thrive

Mental health is an incredibly important part of our holistic wellbeing, yet many of us neglect this aspect of healing because we can’t physically see it. The way we think, feel and behave all provide incredibly telling signs as to the state of our mental health, which is defined by the U.S. Department of Health […]