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Continue reading →: Your Heart is in Your Own Hands!
Easy Does it…on yourself! I give myself a hard time, it is a habitual response I have when things go “wrong” or don’t go my way. One of the first words that pop into my head is “idiot!”. It is a lack of distress tolerance borne out of a reducee…
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Continue reading →: Abstinence is getting Sober, Recovery is getting Emotionally Sober.
A very interesting concept in recovery is the idea of Emotional Sobriety which originated with Bill Wilson who found that after 20 years of recovery he suffered badly from depression. His decades long association with Dr Tiebout, his psycho-analyst, led him to conclude that this was partly due to how…
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Forgiving Others is the Number One Healer!?
Continue reading →: Forgiving Others is the Number One Healer!?“Resentment is the “number one” offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else… In dealing with resentments, we set them on paper. We listed people, institutions or principles with whom we were angry… The first thing apparent was that this world and its people were often quite wrong. To conclude that others…
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Continue reading →: How the Brain Recovers in Abstinence and Recovery
If addiction is characterized by loss of control over the use of substances and behaviour and a severely diminished self control or volitional control over behaviour is recovery the regaining over control over behaviours? This study (1) looked at the recovery of grey matter (and brain function in cocaine…
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Continue reading →: What recovers in Recovery? – Cognitive Control over emotions?
In recent blogs we have called for an increase in research into the neurobiology of recovery to add to the extensive research already published on the neurobiology of the addiction cycle. There has been extensive research into the neurobiology of addiction, most of this has focused on reward and motivation…
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Continue reading →: Life in Recovery
The cost of addiction and the benefits of recovery are clearly illustrated in this survey from last year. “Faces & Voices first-ever nationwide survey of persons in recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs was conducted by Alexandre Laudet, PhD. The survey documented dramatic improvements in all areas of life…
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Continue reading →: Putting a Face on Recovery
Putting a Face on Recovery – Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery We can change how people see recovery via recovery communities being visible in the world.
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Continue reading →: Healing Communities via Recovery
Recovery is healing. From the personal to the communal. Here is a great example of recovering in recovery communities. It illustrates how recovery is a gradual move from isolation from, to commune with other people. We recover via communal contact and interaction with others. It is the new “secure attachment”…
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Continue reading →: Recovery is Contagious
In our final blogs on the invaluable insights into the Recovery process given by the research and experience of William White we finish by looking at the rise of recovery communities in the US in particular and discuss whether this “New Recovery Advocacy Movement” is the future of recovery (treatment)…
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