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In recovery and life, you are likely encouraged to stay optimistic, upbeat, and positive. While this might seem like good advice, and to an extent it is, taking it too far can become a toxic detriment to your life. Toxic positivity is the extreme and overgeneralization of a happy, optimistic state across all situations. You likely understand that different situations present different challenges and sometimes call for other emotions to help you cope because they are more complex than just minimizing it with happiness.

How Do I Uncover and Accept My Truths?

“Living your truth” can be a powerful reminder and mantra to help keep you focused and motivated in recovery. Whether you are just beginning your journey to lifelong recovery, or if you have been in recovery for years, actively seeking your truth is essential in maintaining healthy pursuits.

The Value of Exploring New Activities

Meaningful recovery is much more than just staying sober. Success in recovery should be all-encompassing to bring purpose, direction, and meaning to all facets of your life. However, using drugs and alcohol for some time can consume all of your time and energy and could leave an empty place in your life that you might not know how to fill.

Doing More Than Just Saying “Sorry”: Mending Relationships in Recovery

Addiction can often cause you to act in ways that you later regret; this includes hurting yourself and others. These regrets might also range from minor instances to more severe regrets. Working to repair relationships with yourself and others is among the most common reasons many people seek help. While the process of early recovery is challenging, among these challenges is finding out that you have quite a few apologies to make.

How Do You Cope with Irreparable Feelings of Guilt and Shame in Recovery?

When struggling with drugs and alcohol for any period, you might discover yourself doing things you would never do sober to get through the day. When you become addicted, you search for ways to find the drug or drink of your choice. In this pursuit, you are likely to neglect your needs and treat yourself negatively. You might also treat the people that care about you negatively too. However, this is because you are motivated by your craving.

Creating Boundaries While Working From Home

Amid a year that has called for many to face significant challenges, such challenges may have required you to transform your home environment into your workspace. While there are benefits to working from home, you might be continuing to find that this transition is leaving you feeling burnt out, overworked, and stressed. If working from home is not new to you, you might be guilty of developing some bad habits.

Doing the One Thing You Always Wanted to Do

Everybody has that one that they would love to get around to trying at some point in life. It could be traveling to a destination, pursuing a career opportunity, or starting a band; whatever the desired action, most people accompany their dreams with excuses not to do it. “It's not practical to begin a new venture,” “It's too costly,” or “It will never work out.” There is always an excuse not to do something, and sometimes taking the risk allows you to discover new things about yourself and discover new opportunities.

There is No Glory in “Vain-Glory”: Overcoming Ego in Recovery

Recovery is a lifelong pursuit built upon patience and persistence. During this process, you will face challenges that may leave you feeling “stuck” and as if you can’t move forward on your journey. One significant factor that might be keeping you from moving forward in your recovery is your ego. While many people struggling with addiction have low self-esteem and always think less of themselves, many also experience ego.

How Do I Support a Loved One in Their Recovery?

Achieving lifelong recovery relies on many different factors to ensure that the individual going through the process maintains motivation to keep moving forward. A big proponent of the process is creating a healthy support network. You might not realize how important your support can be for a friend from an outside perspective. What you say, what you do, how you act toward this person can influence how they approach their recovery.

How to Face Challenges Using a Positive Attitude

Throughout life, you have most likely heard sayings like “Change your attitude” or “You need an attitude adjustment.” Such phrases are so common that you might not even consider their meaning anymore. However, in recovery and life, attitude is essential, but you might wonder what attitude is? What does it mean, and how does it apply to your recovery?