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The Impact of Emotional Wounds and Trauma Throughout your life, there are experiences that you will go through that have the potential of having long lasting impacts on your emotional and mental health. Emotional wounds and traumas can occur in anyone’s life for a number of reasons. For many individuals when you hear the term …

If you cannot make it to in-person alcohol anonymous meetings, there is a way you can continue your recovery from alcoholism. Online gatherings are convenient and accessible. They enable you to reap the benefits of AA from the comfort of your home or any other location. Once you complete your alcohol rehab treatment in Los …

Statistics show that a significant number of Americans are lonely. They feel this way because of grief, separation, miscarriage, or divorce. This loneliness can be detrimental to their physical and mental well being. It increases the risk of having heart conditions, suicidal thoughts, depression, and other illnesses. Loneliness can also cause or worsen substance use …

There is so much to the word NO that is hard to deliver and to receive. How many bad ideas could have been prevented by such a small word? How many poor choices? How many relapses? Often the challenge is internal, a fight with yourself, your impulses, your cravings. We will cover that in subsequent …

S.A.D or Seasonal Affective Disorder is a common disorder that affects millions. SAD is as it sounds: during specific times of year, primarily the winter months, people who suffer with SAD can have trouble sleeping or eating, anxiety, feeling down, depressed, melancholy, apathetic and generally, well, sad. The reasoning behind the disorder is that during …

A fairly common discussion that comes up when one is working on therapy and taking stock of their past and the progress of treatment is forgiveness. Though Forgiveness or making amends is a part of the 12 Step work, is not a topic relegated to Recovery alone, we all have things we regret and people …