Various research studies have found that spending time in nature, in green saturated or blue saturated areas, is extremely beneficial for health and wellness. One study focused on the benefits of exercising outdoors and found that people who regularly exercise … Read More
Optimizing Our Chemistry: Nutrition in Addiction Recovery
By Brent Botros Tree House Staff Our body is a product of chemistry, and what we put into it will ultimately affect the way it operates. Learning how to utilize proper fuel for performance is essential to sustain a long … Read More
Creating A Manageable (And Realistic) Self-Care Plan For 2018
People in recovery have been familiar with self-care for many years. Self-care is the personally designed program of taking care of the self. Whatever your individual needs are to feel taken care of, to maintain your health and sanity in … Read More
Van Life: Minimalist Living in Sobriety
By Derek Peters Tree House Staff For starters, I would like to begin with why I even chose to live in a vehicle. It can seem very strange to one person, and pure genius to another. What attracted me to … Read More
Benefits of Cold Weather Training
The winter is no excuse to stay indoors, stick to the gym, or give up your exercise routine all together. Training in the cold weather has many benefits for your mind, your body, and your performance. Moving through exercise helps … Read More
Pets in Addiction Recovery: How My Dog Saved My Life
By Will Gold Tree House Staff My dog, Shilo, has improved my life in many ways. I found Shilo five years ago. She was 6 months old and I was 21. When Shilo came into my life, I was ignorant … Read More
What to do Following a Sports-Induced Concussion or TBI
Many mothers and fathers go through the fear, frustration, and horror of watching their athletically inclined son decline through the symptoms of a traumatic brain injury. Boys will be boys, parents tell themselves as boys rough-house, mess around, throw themselves … Read More
We Were Right all Along: The Man Flu is Real
Men don’t really like to be sick. With a genetic code for strength and endurance, a build biologically stronger than female counterparts, and a socially imposed drive to be a provider, sick doesn’t work for men. Notoriously, men tend to … Read More
The Journey Of “Funny” In The Brain
First, the information gets processed in the frontal lobe. We commonly use expressions like “a dead joke” or “over their head” or “tough crowd” to describe what happens when something “falls flat”. What really happens is, the frontal lobe decides … Read More
The Benefits of Mindfulness Are Exponential
Inarguably, mindfulness does have positive benefits. However, those benefits may be limited, though they are transformative and impactful. Two researchers set to do a thorough audit of the thousands of publications of mindfulness research to evaluate which fit the “gold … Read More