Recovery Month started in 1989 celebrating the importance of treatment in helping people with substance use disorders reclaim their lives. In 1998 the month changed to National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month. Now, with a greater understanding of mental … Read More
Can You Wear Multiple Brands Of Your Life?
Brand loyalty is one of the major marketing tactics big name brands rely on. Take for example, camping gear. Numerous quality camping gear companies exist who provide great products, market a desirable outdoor lifestyle, and offer everything you would look … Read More
Is Narcan Only Used For Heroin Overdose?
On July 24th, 2018, world wide celebrity and pop icon Demi Lovato suffered an overdose. To some, the overdose came as a deep and troubling shock. To others, unfortunately, the overdose was only part of a downward spiraling tale that … Read More
Crushing The End Of 2018
We’re heading into the final quarter of 2018 which means it is time to crush your goals and close out this year feeling like a champion. Too often, when people reevaluate their goals toward the end of the year, they … Read More
Do I Need The 12 Steps?
When Bill Wilson met Dr. Bob Smith in June of 1935 there was no “rehab” to speak of. Health farms, insane asylums, mental hospitals, and other such crude attempts at rehabilitation existed, but few were successful in helping “cure” an … Read More
How to Make Summer Last
An Indian Summer is when summer extends beyond the typical summer months. After the autumnal equinox takes place on September 21, and the summer heat, as well as sunshine, is persisting, it is called an Indian Summer. Though it is … Read More
Is It The Meditation Or The Breathing?
The Institute of Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland took a look at what causes the benefit from a meditation practice. Much like wondering if it is the chicken or egg which came first, researchers examined whether it is … Read More
Stability Isn’t Boring
John Keats once poetically penned that “There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.” Quirky author Tom Robbins writes in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, “Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn’t understand stability. He’s confused … Read More
Transform Self-Criticism into Self-Curiosity
Scenario One: You make a mistake. You immediately feel the pangs of guilt, shame, and condemnation, which come from years of programming to tell you that mistakes are the end-all be-all of your masculinity and manhood. Immediately you dive into … Read More
How To Talk And Like People
Dale Carnegie wrote the book on how to make friends. More accurately, he wrote How To Win Friends And Influence People, which has become a staple of pop culture reference since the 1930s. “It isn’t what you have or who … Read More