13 Strategies To Help With Insomnia During Substance Withdrawal

Apr 8, 2021

13 Strategies To Help With Insomnia During Substance Withdrawal Recovery from addiction brings uncomfortable physical and psychological symptoms. If you’re on this journey and experiencing withdrawal symptoms, you may notice that you have trouble falling asleep...

Beware of the Kindling Effect

Mar 23, 2021

Beware of the Kindling Effect The kindling effect occurs when a person goes through repeated alcohol withdrawals, and the symptoms become more severe with each relapse. The name is derived from materials used to start a fire. The more kindling added the fire burns...

Quitting Alcohol Cold Turkey

Nov 16, 2020

Quitting Alcohol Cold Turkey How the brain copesAlcohol withdrawal is defined as a process the body goes through when someone abruptly stops consuming alcohol after a prolonged period.Alcohol has a slow-moving sedating effect on the brain when consumed, and if you...

Meditation and Mindfulness for Addiction Recovery

Oct 26, 2020

Meditation and Mindfulness for Addiction Recovery Addiction to substances or behaviors depends on a complicated interplay of brain chemistry, genetics, environment, and the availability of substances or behaviors to an individual. It would be irresponsible, therefore,...

What You Need to Know Now About Slow Taper vs. Cold Turkey

Aug 3, 2020

What You Need to Know Now About Slow Taper vs. Cold Turkey There is no shortage of opinions, misinformation and dangerous suggestions when it comes to quitting drugs or alcohol. Unfortunately, in this case particularly, what you think you know could hurt you. It is...