5 Common Challenges in Early Recovery

5 Common Challenges in Early Recovery

Everyone who decides to stop using substances, whatever the reason is, will run into challenges in the first few weeks of living abstinent.  It’s a new way of life and it will take often times changing people, places and things.  We have listed five of the most common...
Working Through Shame

Working Through Shame

Shame goes hand in hand with substance use.  Often when folks begin to enter into recovery or make changes in their lives, they are overcome with feelings of shame and guilt.  Shame is feeling that as a person, you are bad, inadequate, defective, unworthy or less than...
A Letter to Mamas of NAS Babies

A Letter to Mamas of NAS Babies

You found out that you were pregnant during one of the worst times in your life.  Perhaps, it was terrible timing.  You never wanted to be on opiates and be pregnant.  You’re terrified of the outcome, the withdrawal, the pregnancy, the judgement.  Yet you have a...