How to Accept Your Adult Child Who Identifies as LGBTQ
As loved ones, it is our duty to support and protect those closest to our hearts. Regardless of race, color, creed or sexual orientation, being there for a child through thick and thin is the very definition of familial support. While we seemingly live in [...]
Why Non-12 Step Treatment for Dual Diagnosis Disorders
Finding your way through a substance addiction can feel like being lost in a maze. Every time you think you are beginning to make progress, you find yourself frustrated and overwhelmed, wandering through life until you hit another dead end. Add to that frustration the [...]
Why Treatment Should Be Your New Year’s Resolution
Everyone has made a New Year’s resolution at some point in their life. Maybe it was to treat others better or to finish a project in the coming year. Perhaps it was to avoid obvious bad decisions or to finally start that diet to become [...]
How Opioids Work in the Brain
Living with an addiction can make you feel like the entire world is against you. After all, most people who have never experienced a substance use disorder routinely minimize the severity of addiction and how it can alter and essentially destroy a person’s life. How [...]
How James Dixon Healed from Addiction at Ranch Creek Recovery
Twists, turns, lessons, setbacks, consequences – life is full of them. While these circumstances can help an addict hit rock bottom, there is always a way to turn things around. After all, life is more about second chances, redemption and living the clean, healthy, happy [...]
Why Addiction is Higher in the LGBTQ Community
The disease of addiction does not discriminate. It can prove to be a debilitating disorder for any person, regardless of race, gender or sexual orientation. However, for those individuals identifying within the LGBTQ community, dealing with the weight of a substance use disorder can prove [...]
Postpartum Depression and Alcoholism
Making the decision to live a sober life takes courage and strength. The disease of addiction can be an all-consuming disorder, causing you to act out of character and neglect the things most important in your life. Having to overcome its grip can be one [...]
How to Help Your Loved One Avoid Sugar During the Holidays
The holidays are full of memorable moments, family fun and sweet sugary temptations. Trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle during a joyous time of year can sometimes prove more difficult than expected. After all, most get-togethers and events during the holidays are centered around communal [...]
Dangers of Heroin Laced with Fentanyl
Struggling with a heroin addiction is difficult on a number of levels. The toll that long-term opioid abuse can have on a person’s vital organs is well documented. From debilitating heart infections to the potential of total respiratory failure, living with a heroin addiction is [...]
Healthy Foods Your Loved One Should Eat in Recovery
When a person begins their recovery journey, so much emphasis is placed upon their sobriety that other areas of their life may become neglected. In particular, rebuilding and replenishing their physical wellbeing is essential to not only reestablishing their health, but to also maintaining their [...]
Are You Codependent on Your Addicted Loved One?
Wanting your loved one to overcome their addiction is understandable. You have seen them through good times and bad, knowing they have the potential to achieve great things when they are properly motivated and focused. But can your love and support become toxic? It seems [...]
What is Spiritual Growth Therapy?
Being able to overcome your addiction and achieve sustained sobriety is more than just avoiding substance use. It requires wholesale lifestyle change that is driven by the desire to conquer your substance use disorder while attaining a healthier lifestyle and greater sense of purpose. That’s [...]
