Sustain Recovery Blog (38)

What’s Included in the Extended Care program at Sustain Recovery?

Extended care services provide a critical buffer between the initial stay at a residential inpatient treatment facility...

Importance of Healthy Eating for Recovery

High-octane fuels can clean the junk out of your car’s engine and help make your car run better. Likewise, a healthy...

5 Reminders to Keep You Sober

First, remind yourself that relapse happens, but it doesn’t have to. Relapse is a process, just like recovery. It is...

Repairing Reputation and Credibility through Recovery

Young adults and adolescents today face enormous pressures of perfectionism. Social norms and cultural expectations are...

Four Characteristics of a Good Sponsor

When Alcoholics Anonymous was formed by Bill Wilson and his friend Dr. Bob, there were few attendees. In the 1930’s,...

Gaining Emotional Stability in Early Recovery

Drug addiction and alcoholism create an intense physical connection to the abused substances. That physical connection...

Love is the Central Ingredient of Recovery

Drug addiction and alcoholism are diseases of selfishness and self-centeredness. Overcome by the mental and physical...

Learning How to Forgive

The theme of forgiveness runs throughout traditional 12-step addiction recovery programs. Adolescents and young adults...

Transitional Living for Addiction Recovery

The classic model of inpatient residential treatment for drug addiction and alcoholism provides at least twenty-eight...

Coming Clean About Not Staying Clean: Communicating Relapse

Recovery from drug addiction and alcoholism begins with the firm commitment to get- and stay- sober. That commitment...

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