Spirituality in addiction treatment is essential to finding a sustainable path to recovery. Everyone has their own unique journey. It takes time to build a routine that offers you the tools to cope with everyday difficulties and maintain a substance-free life. If you aren’t comfortable with the word “spirituality,” that’s okay. You don’t necessarily need…
Making room for Newness: Mindfulness and Recovery We are expected in recovery to engage in some degree of conversion. Conversion, meaning the shifts from one way of proceeding to another, is the foundation of any sustainable recovery from alcohol and drug addiction. In the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous, one of the common practices is the…
We all too often subscribe to thoughts, feelings and images in our heads (which usually pertain to the past and future) instead of the reality in the moment. A good example would be fostering a resentment against someone and permitting this to create much discontentment and grief. Instead of subscribing to these thoughts, feelings and…