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As a new year begins, we reflect upon the previous one and find there are resolutions we wish to make, goals we wish to set ourselves, improvement we hope to make. Perhaps we might even scan further back to years past make resolutions based out of years of wishes...

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As we go through life, all of us carry some sort of emotional scar with us. We carry our experiences as we grow and change, and we hold on to those things through the best and worst times. For some of us, those things are clearer. But, for a...

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It’s so easy to think that the food we eat is only affecting us physically. When we think of food and eating, we are most likely to think about the calories and how they are adding weight to our bodies. We use the scale because we try to see...

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One of the challenges we face with mental illness recovery is an increased sensitivity to certain life events and experiences. Things that never presented a problem to us before can suddenly become things we struggle to deal with after going through recovery as we return to our daily lives....

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We don’t want to keep things hidden from people. We want to feel like we can openly talk about what we struggle with on a daily basis. We want to be able to feel like we won’t be shamed or judged for something that we can’t control or change....

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Finding the Strength to Move On From Your Past Moving on is never an easy feat. The term implies that something is being left behind, and there are many things in life that we want to leave behind. We may want to leave our pain and struggles behind, our...

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Our knowledge and expertise are increased tenfold when going through the treatment process. There can be no better way to learn than experiencing something for yourself. We see experience being valued over all else in all parts of life, for instance, when an employer looks to your experience in...

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Finding people to support us through our experiences is a paramount necessity to getting better. The people that we can lean on are the ones who we will come to appreciate the most; they are the ones who stand by us through everything and they keep us afloat. When...

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Our recovery process is built upon being united. Whether it is sitting and listening to someone else share their story and emotions or speaking up in front of our peers to do the same, the goal is to feel like we are a part of something and take away...

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No one is very comfortable with change. We find the schedules and rhythms in our lives that we lean on to bring us a sense of comfort and peace. It is so easy for us to find a way to live each day the same as the last. We...

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