Self-love is a term we hear in recovery, personal growth and development circles all the time, but what does it really mean?

Building your self-worth in recovery is an important part of your healing process. If you're in the early stages of recovery...

Abstinence, moderation management or harm reduction as a recovery choice. Dr Gabor Maté, a leading expert on addiction and trauma, uses...

Will I be boring now that I've stopped using? So you’ve decided to try recovery and stopped using drugs and/or alcohol!?

What I've learned in my recovery and healing process: It's okay to not be okay! I celebrated 16 years of sobriety on 1st January 2024,...

Rising Above the Stigma: A Guide to Overcoming Shame and Embracing Addiction Recovery What is addiction? And how come I ended up with...

As the old year wraps itself up and a new one dawns, it's a natural time for introspection, personal growth, and setting intentions...

Healing from loss in addiction recovery is challenging and recovery is not just a path littered with the debris of addiction...

I can't believe that I have turned 50! I mean where did all that time go!? I remember my 18th birthday vividly...

Sometimes the distances between myself and the people I love seem truly vast...

It's a funny thing that music can do...laugh, cry, dance, sing-a-long, and invoke so many BIG memories. Tonight I decided to put on my...

The lessons I have learned in my 14 years of recovery from an alcohol use disorder.

"I'm not afraid of dying; I just don't want to be there when it happens," is a Woody Allen quote I recall hearing someone use in a matric...

Ever feel like you spend a whole lot of your life wondering if you're enough? Smart enough? Rich enough? Successful enough? Good looking...

Sobriety and recovery are not the same thing. Clean time and wellness are different. Being clean and sober doesn't necessarily equate to...

I am committed to my work as a coach; supporting my clients in their recoveries from substance use and addiction disorders. I strive to...

Are you out there doing your own personal work? Or sitting on the sidelines running commentary while others show up and do theirs?

There seems to be an idea that 13 is an unlucky number and even after reading the history.com article "What's So Unlucky About the Number...

...And it's also been a very challenging year for anyway courageous enough to be starting their recovery process.