When breaking free from a life of addiction, sobriety takes center stage in your life. Recovery takes all your time, energy and focus. While this is natural and necessary, it’s important to remember that there is more to life than your Recovery process. The keyword to remember is “balance.” Balance means allowing all the good […]
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Drug addiction is a substance abuse disorder. Many people who have directly witnessed this in family, friends or even work colleagues, understand the many challenges that people struggling with addiction face on a daily basis. Although we have a much better understanding of how addiction works in our brains than we did 20 years ago,
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Everyday life can wear you down. This can be even more difficult if you are already dealing with issues such as mental health or, chronic pain from conditions like Osteoporosis, Parkinson’s, Diabetes Type 2, or others. Going to work, caring for your kids, cooking dinner every night, doing the laundry, going to the grocery store and, all
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At first, it may be difficult to imagine illicit psychedelic drugs such as, “magic mushrooms”, being used in clinical settings. But following recent research, this may well be where the future of psychiatry and psychotherapy lies. Spanning the last two decades, this new wave of research is paving the way for the integration of psychedelic-assisted
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Everyone has at least one bad habit. Whether it’s being chronically late, tapping your feet, chewing gum too loudly, eating sloppily, over sharing on Facebook, or eating junk food, a bad habit can impede your happiness, health, and social relationships. The key to overcoming bad habits is first, to develop some insight into their origins. Provided here are several
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Trauma denial is a way to put distance between you and an overwhelming experience. It can be one of the many ways your brain tries to adapt, and mitigate a reality collapse, or a system overload, which can often happen after a traumatic event. As you might imagine, denial can be enormously useful. Trauma denial may be
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Addiction is a disease of the brain. It is a chronic disease that requires long-term treatment, just like any other chronic medical condition. As researchers continue to work toward understanding the disease of addiction, the picture becomes more complicated. There are many factors that go into a person becoming addicted to a substance. As a
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Introduction to Narcotic Anonymous James Patrick Kinnon, known as “Jimmy K.”, is commonly credited with founding Narcotics Anonymous (N.A) in 1953 in Los Angeles, California, for the purpose of helping its members stop using addictive substances. At the time, Alcoholics Anonymous had been in existence for almost 20 years, gaining international recognition for helping its members stop
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In the bustling heart of California, where the sun kisses the coastline and dreams reach for the sky, Can Am Interventions stands as a beacon of hope for those battling the shadows within. Our esteemed organization is dedicated to providing unparalleled Mental Health Services in California and specialized Anxiety Services in California. In this blog,
Losing a loved one to suicide is one of life’s most painful experiences. The feelings of loss, sadness, and loneliness experienced after the death of a loved one, are often magnified in suicide survivors by feelings of guilt, confusion, rejection, shame, anger, and the effects of stigma and trauma. Furthermore, survivors of suicide loss are
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