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How to Find the Right Recovery Center for You
Getting Help So you’ve taken a positive step: you’ve decided to get help for your substance abuse disorder, and you’re looking for the right facility to accompany you to sobriety and independence. A simple Google search reveals the large number of drug and alcohol...
Staying Sober and Healthy During Omicron
Addiction Recovery & the Pandemic Here we are, two years into the coronavirus pandemic, and many of us are still working from home, still quarantining as needed, and still doing our best to stay healthy. But even if you’re staying physically well, the pandemic has...
Staying Sober This Valentine’s Day
Valentine's Day Madness Here I am, at 11:00 AM on a Saturday in a grocery store, trying to find hot sauce in an aisle bursting with glittering, plastic hearts and pink-and-white streamers. When I finally push aside the dangling cupid cutout to grab the sriracha, I...
Sleep Hygiene and Its Importance For Your Recovery
Sleep Hygiene & Your Recovery When was the last time you slept for longer than seven consecutive hours? If you can’t remember, then this is the post for you. Most adults need anywhere from seven to nine hours of uninterrupted sleep. During that period of time, the...
Journaling: How It Supports Your Recovery
Journals & Your Recovery Journey Diaries: many of us keep them. Others have never entertained the thought of writing in one. But diaries, or journals, can be wonderful tools for working through intimate feelings, relationships, and anything we feel hesitant to...
Post-acute Withdrawal Syndrome: The Signs & the Solutions
Your loved one has completed treatment for alcohol use disorder and seems committed to living a life of sobriety. However, you start to notice that their behavior seems just as problematic as it did when they were in active addiction. They’re angry or depressed; they...
Coffee, Cigarettes, and Self-Care in Recovery
Self-Care in Recovery Let’s imagine that or a loved one have entered treatment with us at St. Gregory’s. You’ve detoxed, gotten sober, and learned a bunch of new strategies to permanently cut an addictive substance out of your life. You no longer need drugs to cope...
Reconnecting with Hope This Winter
Hopelessness v. Hopefulness It’s easy to feel helpless, hopeless, and unmotivated on the journey of sobriety--and of life. Often, these types of negative emotions are connected, and becoming aware of their source can help you climb out of the dark hole of hopelessness...
GOAL! Setting and Achieving Realistic Goals for the New Year
Tired of setting big goals only to experience big failures? Frustrated with what seems to be a cycle of motivation, hardship, and a subsequent loss of motivation? Setting Goals & Dreaming Big Welcome to the club. Many of us dream big and later get overwhelmed by...
Winter Superfoods for Healing and Wellness
Winter Superfoods & Their Many Benefits What exactly makes a food “super”? This is an excellent question. The answer, unfortunately, is a little disappointing: nothing in particular. In fact, the word superfood is pure invention, a buzzword that marketing...
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