Gratitude and Happiness
Lower your expectations and increase your gratitude to experience lasting happiness. When it comes to happiness, I am starting to notice an interesting pattern in my life. In fact, …
Tips for holiday mental health.
How to experience less stress this holiday. It’s no secret that it’s easy to simultaneously enjoy and dread the holiday season. Many people look forward to each new winter …
Happiness, Gratitude, and Addiction Recovery
Thankfulness, Happiness, and Gratitude are essential to Addiction Recovery! The month of November was a joyful time for many of us. We get to see those far away cousins …
Mindfulness, Serenity, and Recovery
When the purpose of recovery isn’t to be just replacing one unhealthy coping mechanism with another. It becomes necessary to understand and have a high awareness of where our feelings of anger, sadness, loneliness, happiness, etc. come from and then be able to allow ourselves to feel without the need to “make” the “bad” feelings go away.
Insight: The Most Overlooked Aspect of Recovery
Do you know The Most Overlooked Aspect of Recovery? Insight! If you’ve ever been to or researched drug treatment recovery, you likely know quite a bit about how recovery works. …
3 Tips: Forgiveness and Setting Boundaries
Before you read watch: “What Bob learned about forgiveness at Gulf Breeze Recovery” Three practical tips on how to reconcile Forgiveness with setting Boundaries Our world seems to be full …
Wisdom comes when you Relax!
The secret to accessing your innate wisdom. Neuroscience explains how a process of electrical and chemical signals work together, impacting muscles and resulting in bodily movement. When we choose …
Avoiding relapse and restoring your serenity.
How a GBR graduate restored his serenity and avoided relapse! Monday night could have been a nightmare: about 4pm I was sitting in Little Italy enjoying a nice meal when …
Forgiveness. Haven’t We Suffered Enough?
Memories of past wrongs can create pain, even years after the painful event has passed. So if we are still suffering, then why would we even consider forgiving the person who caused the pain?
6 Secrets of Happy People
More Secrets of Happiness It’s July, and summer is in full swing. The “laid back” season hopefully has ushered in some time to relax, kick back with a book, …