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Finding Courage for Recovery During COVID-19

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Jun 20

June 2, 2020

Finding Courage for Recovery During COVID-19



We all have to display an immense amount of courage and resilience to make it through the current pandemic. It’s a difficult and painful time in the history of the world. The COVID-19 pandemic is all over the media. It is natural to feel fearful and discouraged.

There is bad news everywhere we turn. Unemployment is rising fast. There is illness, death, and suffering throughout the world. We have no idea how things are going to turn out. There are conflicting messages being conveyed each and every day. We don’t know who to believe or what to think anymore. It can be astounding and frightening.


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PART 2: Choose Healthy Habits

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May 20

May 28, 2020

PART 2: Choose Healthy Habits



All habits are behaviors that have been repeated enough times to become automatic. James Clear, author of Atomic Habits, breaks habits into simple feedback loops composed of four steps: cue, craving, response, and reward. His four laws of behavior change are rules we can use to build new (hopefully better) habits. (more…)
Alcohol Habit vs Addiction – How It Forms

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May 20

May 26, 2020

Alcohol Habit vs Addiction – How It Forms



Although author James Clear makes it, well, clear—that addiction is not just someone’s “bad habit”, I think it totally makes sense for people in recovery to utilize some of the concepts he captures in his best selling book, Atomic Habits.

Clear has taken the topic of habit creation, broken it down to bite-sized pieces, and gives discrete suggestions for any of us attempting to create a good habit or eliminate a bad one. (more…)
Do This 1 Thing to Stay Off Opioids Forever

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May 20

May 25, 2020

Do This 1 Thing to Stay Off Opioids Forever

Using willpower to change a behavior means working hard to achieve something; Merriam Webster defines will power as “energetic determination.” If I need willpower to accomplish something, then I am attempting a task that I feel some level of conflict about doing. Like a part of you knows that you need or should do something, but another part of you feels resistance to doing it.

This holds true for someone who also has decided to stop using drugs, yet when the choice to use is no longer an option, resistance drops. However, perhaps the most important part of getting to this place of diminished resistance is creating an environment conducive to succeeding.

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Alcohol Use Disorder: Easy to Meet Criteria

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May 20

May 21, 2020

Alcohol Use Disorder: Easy to Meet Criteria



A lot of patients I see don’t really know they may meet the criteria for alcohol use disorder. I can tell you that it’s not that hard to qualify, and more and more people are entering the ranks. (more…)
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