RECOVERY
Artistic Expression in Recovery
In recovery, the need for a healthy outlet is important. The pain and emotions that drugs and alcohol used to mask, represent a void that must be filled, creating a vicious cycle of using, feeling bad, and then using again to feel better. Learning how to replace that cycle with healthy habits is part of recovery, provides self-comfort, and can help contribute to long term sobriety.
Helpful Tips to Support Your Loved One After Leaving Treatment
Helpful Tips to Support Your Loved One After Leaving Treatment
Staying Committed and Making Sacrifices for Lasting Change
At Narconon Suncoast, our program is designed in a step by step approach to handle all aspects of a person’s addiction.
A New Year, a New Hope
The year 2020 is over, and 2021 is officially here.
Is the Twelve Step Model “One Size Fits All”?
Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous remain to be some of the most popular groups in recovery. For as long as the 12-step model has been around, it would make a lot of sense that one and/or both of these groups are usually the first-choice method with someone who is struggling from substance abuse. However, a 12-step program might not always be the best thing for everyone.
Is Addiction Really a Disease?
Instead of viewing addiction as a disease from which one can never recover and that one is powerless over, the answer lies in returning the ability to chose back to the addict. By teaching them life skills and handling cravings, addicts can regain their ability to choose and exercise power over addiction.
Thanksgiving in 2020 and Finding Reasons to Be Thankful
Thanksgiving 2020 may seem like a trivial holiday given all that is going on in the world, but I hope it instead gains value in remembering that for us to recover as a society, we must find the good in all the muck and use it to build a better future.
A Perspective on Time and Overcoming Addiction
It is the million-dollar question. How long does it take for someone to truly overcome an addiction? There are many more questions that will arise within that question.
Life After Addiction
A lot of emphasis is put on the pain and anguish that both addicts and families often suffer when we discuss what addiction does to our society. Having lived through it, I know all about that as well as how easy it is on addicts and families to lose hope amid the struggle. While I understand that, I would like to focus on what life can be like once addiction has been overcome.
Justin Joins the Body Chat Podcast
I was fortunate enough to be on Dr. Stephen Nedd’s Body Chat Podcast recently and spoke with Ron Nedd on the Narconon Program, my experience with addiction and other treatment facilities, as well as all of the great successes I have had the privilege to be a part of as a staff member at Narconon Suncoast.
