Relapse Prevention: Putting it all together
Relapse prevention is truly a series of daily lifestyle choices that support your health and well-being. Relapse prevention is also what is called a “living document,” which stays open to adjustments, customization, and adding information to reflect your growth. If you have completed this series on relapse prevention, congratulations! You are doing important, life-changing work […]
Relapse Prevention: Avoiding All-or-Nothing Thinking
All-or-Nothing thinking is also known as Black-and-White thinking. Some people also call it “My way or the highway.” It is a cognitive distortion where you see things as either entirely good or entirely bad, without considering the gray areas in between. This is a stress-inducing, anger provoking, sadness producing, self-sabotaging way of viewing yourself and […]
Relapse Prevention: Understanding the Dangers of Instant Gratification
If you’re like many people, you probably have an IG account. I’m not talking about social media. I’m talking about Instant gratification. Our society has made it an expectation to have things instantly or quickly, whether it’s shopping and ordering food online, or paying for medications and surgeries to alter physical appearances. In a world […]
Relapse Prevention: Having Healthy Relationships and Supports
A fulfilled and healthy lifestyle includes healthy supports. Many people experience social anxiety, have been hurt by others, or may otherwise be reluctant to open themselves up to connect with others. Here’s an image to consider when thinking about the importance of healthy supports. If you are indoors or under some sort of roof right […]
Relapse Prevention: Using Healthy Boundaries
Setting and maintaining healthy boundaries helps you give yourself honor, respect, and also set the expectations of how you will be treated. In return, you will treat others the way you expect to be treated. If people unknowing/knowingly disrespect your boundaries, you will inform them that they are crossing a boundary and give them an […]
Relapse Prevention: Identifying and Managing Triggers
Triggers are areas in your life to which you have developed a heightened sensitivity. Triggers take the form of the nouns in your life: people, places, and things. Triggers are blips on the radar screen that let you know there is something that you are not okay with, and you may not even fully know […]
Relapse Prevention: Caring for Mental Health Needs
There is no relapse prevention and experiencing a quality of life in recovery without mental health care and support. Without question, it is essential to preventing relapse. You may have heard the difference between sobriety and recovery: Sobriety is about abstaining from harmful behaviors or substances. Recovery is about learning to take care of ourselves, […]
Relapse Prevention: The Power of Intentional Living with Self-Awareness
Intentional Living helps us slow the anxiety producing rush of the clock down, in order to connect with the needs of the present moment. This is the power of developing a sober mindset, which is what this site is named after. We connect with the present moment by choosing to slow down to help us […]
Relapse Prevention: The Power of Intentional Living with a Sober Mind
If you haven’t read the blog on Intentional Living, this will add an additional layer of support for relapse prevention and I highly recommend you check it out. I will share with you two sections from the Intentional Living series. “Among definitions of abstaining from intoxicants, Merriam Webster’s dictionary also defines sober as ‘unhurried,’ ‘calm,’ […]