Sep 16, 2021 | Hope & Recovery, Tips for Healthy Living, Understanding Mental Illness
An estimated 22 million Americans among every gender, race, and social class are currently in recovery. For those in recovery, it is not a one-size-fits-all situation but one completely unique to one’s life experiences and circumstances. What does “in recovery” mean?...
Mar 23, 2016 | Hope & Recovery, News, Tips for Healthy Living, Understanding Mental Illness
Hi again! I am back with another blog. I was re-reading my first one “Shame: Managing Stormy Days” the other day and thought it was, “to my surprise” not bad.I say this not with an ego. I say it as “An Adult Child Of An Alcoholic”...
Feb 5, 2016 | Hope & Recovery
This fact could not have been made clearer than in a conversation with Theresa Russell*, who agreed to talk about how heroin has touched her life.Theresa began by handing over a list of six people’s names, their ages, and the dates of their overdoses and deaths. She...
Jan 15, 2016 | Hope & Recovery, Tips for Healthy Living
In Maine, over the last 10-15 years, the rising tide of prescription painkillers abuse and other opiates based drugs (legal and illegal) has reached epidemic proportions. The abuse of alcohol and other addictive drugs like marijuana/synthetic cannabinoids,...
Dec 30, 2015 | Hope & Recovery, Tips for Healthy Living
For those in early recovery, it is probably not a good idea to go to a New Year’s party where there is going to be alcohol. Even those who are well established in their sobriety can find such events a challenge. Sometimes, though, it can be difficult to avoid such...
