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
You Might Know Someone Addicted to Drugs
According to a Pew survey of US adults conducted in August of 2017, nearly half of adults have a family member or a friend who has been addicted to drugs, reports Vox. Forty-six percent of adults surveyed meet the criteria. … Read More
Sometimes you Need to be Bored
Active men living an active program of recovery, live lives that are on the move. After working hard through months of treatment, men have learned how to manifest their potential in their mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical form. They are … Read More
Alcohol vs. Marijuana: Which is Worse? (And Why it Doesn’t Matter)
Entering the rooms of recovery, whether they be twelve step meetings or the walls of a treatment facility, we learn something very quickly: there’s no room for comparison. Yet, most of us come in comparing. We weren’t that bad. At … 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
Going To Treatment Vs. Going It Alone
Every man who is considering going to treatment in order to quit- and stay quit- from an addiction has a choice. He can go to treatment or he can go it alone. Isolation is heavily argued against in recovery. Left … Read More
The Write Stuff: A Mind-Body Narrative
Writing is a cathartic exercise that demands the energy of the mind and the body. Professional writers, recreational writers, poets, novelists, journalists- anyone who writes experiences the physical experience of writing. Writing is not simply a mental activity. After intensive … Read More
The Two Lies Your Ego Is Telling You
There are two lies that the ego tells you. From the foundation of these two lies spawns many other lies. Comparisons, judgments, putting people on a pedestal, or putting people down. When you find your life in a place of … Read More
The Power of Shared Experiences
Christopher McCandless had just realized he ate the wrong berries. Frantically flipping through the pages of the book he used for reference, he notices the pattern on the berry, which he fatally misinterpreted. McCandless had been living in a bus … Read More