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Avoiding Relapse When Disaster Strikes

Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

Avoiding Relapse When Disaster StrikesA painful loss has you feeling the urge to use again, but that doesn’t mean relapse is a foregone conclusion. You have the tools to stay sober get through the trauma.

You’ve completed treatment, you’ve done the hard work, and you’re on track in your recovery. Everything is going great. Then you’re hit by something that threatens it all. Maybe it’s a death in the family, a serious illness, a job loss or a divorce. Whatever the personal trauma, it has you ready to run back to your old habits in order to numb all those unwanted feelings. How can you possibly cope with something this big and remain clean? (more…)


Managing Threats to Sobriety

Friday, April 15th, 2011

Managing Threats to SobrietyGetting clean is one thing, staying clean is another. But there are concrete ways to avoid the people places and situations that can lead to relapse.

Once you’ve completed treatment, your journey of recovery is only beginning. In the protected environment of drug and alcohol rehab, it’s easy to avoid triggers and to avoid the people who would threaten your sobriety. Once you’re back in your everyday life, it will take a more proactive plan to avoid friends and acquaintances who are still using. (more…)


Steps for Avoiding Relapse

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

Steps for Avoiding Relapse There’s no magic cure for staying clean post-rehab, but there are ways you can ensure the best possible chance of healthy, long-term recovery.

Everyone who gets caught up in addiction is a whole person with talents and gifts and unique traits. Despite your recovery status, you don’t need to be defined by your addiction. You are so much more! In addition, letting your addiction define you is unnecessary and can be a barrier to your long-term recovery.

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The Relapse Riddle

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

The Relapse RiddleWhat make someone in recovery return to old habits and how can relapse be avoided?

Addiction is a complex disease, and the riddle of relapse is equally difficult to unravel. Why does someone who seems to be successfully working a recovery program and has all the necessary head knowledge about how to avoid falling into old habits end up using again?

Obviously, if it was just a matter of looking at the facts and weighing the dangers, no one would ever use in the first place. But substance abuse is much more complex than that. Relapse doesn’t start once the substance is first used again. It starts long before that and is marked by a series of behaviors. Addiction specialists Terrence Gorski and Merlene Miller collaborated on the development of eleven phases of relapse: (more…)


Recognizing Relapse Triggers

Monday, October 4th, 2010

Recognizing Relapse Triggers Many addictions can be traced back to the desire to avoid unwanted feelings. So how do you make peace with emotions and remain in recovery?

The holidays, family functions, job stress, family stress, events that take you back in the path of locations where you used to obtain or do drugs can all be dangerous. They can make someone in recovery uncomfortable and trigger thoughts of returning to unhealthy activities as a way to silence those unwanted emotions.

We’ve all wished at one time or another that we could just turn off our feelings. But going through life emotionally numb isn’t really an option. For recovering addicts, there are certain times that are more emotion-filled and therefore make them more in danger of relapsing. Fortunately, it is possible to become aware of triggers and learn how to diffuse them. (more…)


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