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Once you have decided to get on the road to recovery, you have to be prepared to deal with your cravings. Before, it was so easy to succumb to these cravings but now, you have to make a commitment to abstain from your addictions.   One thing to note though is that being in recovery

When you are ‘running and gunning’ on your drug or alcohol addiction, life seems fast paced. However, it just seems like it because for many addicts, a lot–if not all–of their activities revolve around their substance use. But it is all a different story when you are in recovery. For some, being in recovery is

Once you have chosen to take that step into the road to recovery, you will find that it has plenty of challenges you never thought you would ever come across. Beth Leipholtz is a college student and college student paper editor-in-chief who also navigates her way through sobriety. She has written for several publications like

Now that Valentine’s Day is near, let’s take a look at how love can make you do certain things, like act strange and be fixated about one thing–the ‘love of your life’. Don’t you think a person in love acts somewhat life a person who is addicted?   As an old adage says, “Love has

Living with an addicted person, whether a spouse, a parent, a child, or a sibling, can be tough. It can drain you emotionally, physically, and even financially. It is best to understand that we cannot change them–much more cure them. There is now cure-all or overnight remedy for addiction. What you can do is to

If you are an addict’s spouse, brother, sister, son, daughter, parent, or friend, seeing your loved one suffer and deteriorate due to addiction can be heartbreaking. We want to cure him, help him, make him go back to the way he was before. Oftentimes, we blame ourselves, thinking that we could have done something to

Mahatma Gandhi once said, “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” For someone who is a parent of an addicted child, we can say that forgiveness is such an easy thing to do for others who have not gone through what we went, or are still going, through.   Nights

When you are faced with your child defying household rules, answering back in anger, slamming the door in your face, and just becoming plain rude and uncooperative, you may wonder where your sweet, caring and obedient little baby has gone. In his place is this angry, uncaring, reckless teen.   But then again, you may

So you’ve undergone treatment for your addiction and you would like to believe that the worst is over. Now what?   Leaving the contained environment of the treatment facility may be liberating for some. However, it can be disorienting for others. Either way, studies say–and many in recovery can also attest–that the weeks, even days,

Everyone feels anger at some point or another. Anger occurs when you feel frustrated, disappointed, or mistreated. A person who harbors anger, or has too much anger, can get many undesirable physical, emotional, and social consequences. For someone in recovery, anger can lead to relapse.   Anger can be rational or irrational. If one feels