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6 Steps for Setting Boundaries with Someone in Recovery

When someone pursues recovery, your relationship with them can change for the better. By setting up boundaries early on and communicating your feelings effectively, you and your loved one can develop a mutual respect that tends to your needs just as much as their sobriety. Follow these 6 important steps from Addiction Recovery Coach Rick Lepkowski.

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What Does It Feel Like to Go Through Drug Withdrawal?

Drug and alcohol withdrawal is a painful and disruptive period of time, but there are ways to alleviate these difficult symptoms. By using pain management tools and healthy coping mechanisms, experiencing withdrawal can be more manageable.

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Detox vs. Rehab? Which is Right for You?

Although many use these terms interchangeably, detox and rehab each have their own purpose. While detox primarily focuses on addressing the physical effects that addiction has had on the body, rehab focuses more on the psychological effects.

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How to Strengthen Your Sobriety
Recovery is a lifelong process, and it is important that you are constantly working on ways to grow and strengthen your sobriety.
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Wellness Topics

Essential Oils for Addiction Recovery
Alcoholism and drug addiction are often the result of self-medicating to cope with emotional or physical pain and discomfort. The use of essential oils is a simple and effective way to help maintain emotional balance, physical health, and vitality in recovery.
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Drug Addiction

How to Safely Detox from Painkiller Addiction
Addiction takes a tremendous toll on the body. Learn what you can do to start the healing, break free from addiction, and regain control over your life.
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Recovery

How to Forgive a Loved One in Addiction Recovery
Although it can be difficult to do, forgiveness in recovery is beneficial to both you and your loved one's healing. Learn what steps you can take.
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Managing a Healthy Diet and a Busy Life
If you're always on the go, maintaining a healthy diet may be the last of your worries. Find out how to prioritize recovery and your nutrition together.
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Wellness Topics

Should You Really Drop Sugar from Your Diet?
Before you began your recovery, you may have used drugs or alcohol to medicate your feelings. Now that you’re sober, have you been self-medicating with sugar? And if so, is it really all that bad for you? It depends.
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Drug Addiction

How to Get Your Parent into an Addiction Treatment Program
There are currently 25 million adults in the US struggling with addiction. If your parent needs help, here are important steps you can take.
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Recovery

The New You: Making Good Decisions in Recovery
Recovery isn’t a destination but rather an ongoing journey. With a healthy mindset and tools for maintaining your sobriety, you are hopefully making better decisions than you previously did.
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Alcohol

How to Enjoy Summer and Protect Your Sobriety
Long, warm days make the summer months perfect for exciting parties. For people who are in early addiction recovery, this time of the year can be tricky to navigate, as alcohol is the beverage of choice at most parties and celebrations.
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Recovery

Addiction Recovery: How We Talk About Our Experience Matters
Your recovery story is important and can serve as an inspiration to others, but sharing it outside of a 12 Step meeting isn't always easy. Learn simple tips to help you feel more comfortable sharing your story with those outside of the recovery community.
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Addiction Treatment

Top Questions People Have About Addiction Treatment
If you and your loved ones have never been through this process before, then the whole experience can seem intimidating or even scary. Before you begin to panic and put off going to treatment for your addiction altogether, we have answers to some of the most common questions individuals struggling with addiction ask.
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Addiction Treatment

Top Questions People Have About Addiction Treatment
If you and your loved ones have never been through this process before, then the whole experience can seem intimidating or even scary. Before you begin to panic and put off going to treatment for your addiction altogether, we have answers to some of the most common questions individuals struggling with addiction ask.
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