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Adolescents struggling with substance use or mental health challenges are not broken — and they deserve a future that’s beyond better. Our adolescent treatment program in Orange County helps young boys and girls achieve healing that transforms and sustains entire families.
        
    
      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...
        
          
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      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...
        
          
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      Repairing Reputation and Credibility through Recovery
        
        Young adults and adolescents today face enormous pressures of perfectionism. Social norms and cultural expectations are...
        
          
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      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,...
        
          
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      Gaining Emotional Stability in Early Recovery
        
        Drug addiction and alcoholism create an intense physical connection to the abused substances. That physical connection...
        
          
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      Love is the Central Ingredient of Recovery
        
        Drug addiction and alcoholism are diseases of selfishness and self-centeredness. Overcome by the mental and physical...
        
          
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      Learning How to Forgive
        
        The theme of forgiveness runs throughout traditional 12-step addiction recovery programs. Adolescents and young adults...
        
          
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      Transitional Living for Addiction Recovery
        
        The classic model of inpatient residential treatment for drug addiction and alcoholism provides at least twenty-eight...
        
          
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      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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