Emotions that Can Upend Recovery

Emotions that Can Upend Recovery

Anger and Sadness: Emotions that Can Upend Recovery (and Could Indicate a Mental Health Disorder) Have you ever stopped to think about the ways in which your emotions affect your behavior?  Often, especially given how full our schedules tend to be, we think about our...
Strategies to Cultivate Calm

Strategies to Cultivate Calm

The world, we think you would likely agree, is a complex place—and a place that can amp up our stress levels in any number of ways. Often, the stress we experience manifests as anxiety—that feeling of worry that we just can’t seem to shake.  For some, anxiety rises to...
Cooking: The Perfect Hobby in Recovery

Cooking: The Perfect Hobby in Recovery

How are your cooking skills in the kitchen? Are you a person who enjoys coming up with menus and then preparing a range of dishes? Or are you a person who can boil water for pasta and use the microwave fairly effectively? Or are you a person who needs someone else in...