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The Recovery.com Journal is your trusted guide to navigating the path to addiction and mental health treatment. We offer real stories, expert insights, and compassionate guidance to help you find support and community.
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Back to School, Back to the Conversations That Matter (opens the original)
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Back-to-school season arrives with a familiar mix of excitement and strain. There are supply lists and earlier bedtimes, new teachers and unfamiliar routines, sports practices, packed lunches, and the hope that everyone will make it out the door on time.Beneath all that activity, our children may be carrying questions they do not know how to ask.Will I fit in? What if I fall behind? What if someone offers me alcohol or another drug? What if my friends are doing something that makes me uncomforta
The Trap That Feels Like an Escape (opens the original)
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There is a moment in the latest episode of RECOVERable when psychologist Dr. Michael Zhang says something that stopped me:“We’re not consuming products. We’re consuming possibility.”That possibility might look like paying off a debt, recovering what was lost, proving we can still win, or finally escaping the stress we have been carrying.A casino no longer requires a drive across town. It lives inside the phone in our pocket. A bet can be placed from the couch, during a lunch break, o
Protecting Your Peace Starts with Boundaries (opens the original)
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For many of us, recovery begins by putting down alcohol or drugs. But as we continue healing, we discover there are other things weighing us down, too.The pressure to make everyone happy.Thanks for reading The Recovery.com Journal! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<div class="fake-in
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