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Pushing Yourself to Live

October 15, 2019

How to Not Let This Keep You From Living Your Life It’s easy to let your life become solely focused on getting better. It makes sense that you would try to focus as much of your attention on helping yourself than anything else. This is especially true if you’re...

Dealing with Sadness in Your Fight

October 12, 2019

Overcoming Depression’s Refusal to Let This Be Easy Mental illness is a large shadow to have over you. Whether you are struggling with depression itself or another struggle, there will always be sadness in it. It can be ever-constant, always present, and terribly difficult to deal with. When faced...

How Do You Navigate Toxic Relationships in Recovery?

October 11, 2019

Dealing with Toxicity in Our Lives and How to Rid Ourselves of It Figuring relationships out is incredibly difficult even when you are not in the recovery process. Trying to keep in mind the needs and expectations of another person, along with your own, brings on an amount of...

Living in the Shadow of Ourselves

October 11, 2019

Coping with Our History and How That Changes Our Perception We would all like to imagine that we are perfect. We all would love to be able to say, without a shadow of a doubt, that we are great, our lives are perfect, and there is absolutely nothing that...

Being an Anorexic Male

October 9, 2019

Dealing with the Stigmas and Misunderstandings Stereotypes within the realm of mental health can be difficult to overcome. For whatever reason, people are more inclined to associate certain illnesses with one gender and not the others. When they think of a specific illness, they automatically conjure up an image...

Avoiding Relapses

October 9, 2019

Understanding Our Triggers and What Keeps Us Safe As we leave our recovery process, we find that, unfortunately, the world hasn’t changed with us. We have worked to change ourselves at the deepest levels, but all that work hasn’t impacted the world we live in. Our old vices and...

How Do You Identify Addiction?

October 6, 2019

Recognizing the Symptoms Before It Gets Worse We all have our passions and our hobbies; we all have things that we like to indulge in. There is nothing wrong with having these kinds of things in our life, and, in fact, they can be beneficial for our well-being as...

Let the Music Take You

October 4, 2019

A List of Albums to Help You Get Through This We know how lonely it can feel to be struggling with mental illness. We know how hard it can be to feel like you are alone in it, like no one else can help you; we know how it...

Amending the Family After Recovery

October 4, 2019

How to Navigate the Damage that Our Struggles Can Bring Entering a rehabilitation or recovery center is not easy for anyone involved. It’s a life-changing decision and one that carries numerous ramifications throughout a person’s life. Most people would assume that entering a rehab center is the hardest on...

Does Anyone Understand Me?

October 2, 2019

Navigating The Feeling of Isolation in Your Journey When going through the recovery process, you will be encouraged to share your thoughts and emotions. You will be encouraged to talk about what you have experienced and what is going on inside your head. You will (hopefully) share these things,...