Sobriety and Holiday Well-being Tips Sober Holidays During COVID-19 • Socially Distanced Holiday Season Stress Management • COVID-19 Stress Management Tips • Stress Reduction with Conscious Breathing • Dr. Andrew Weil, How to Do the 4-7-8 Breathing Technique, Video • Resources for Reducing COVID-19 Stress • Resources for Reducing #WFH Stress • Coping With Spending […]
Veterans: Tips for Staying Sober Holidays
Veterans Experience Holiday Season Sobriety Challenges Tips for Staying Sober Holidays • Happy Holidays Basic Requirement: Staying Sober • Tips for Civilian Life Reintegration • Veteran Reintegration Common Issues • COVID-19 Stress Challenges • Alcohol Free Winter Holiday Drinks • Uncovering Holiday Myths and Adjusting Expectations • Holiday Sobriety Planning Tips • Using Mindfulness to Maintain Emotional Balance • Mindfulness […]
Bay Area Happy Safe and Sober Labor Day!
Wellness and Sober Holidays Fun with Family, Friends, Shopping – 2020 Style In This Article • The Origins of Labor Day • Safely Socialize Labor Day 2020 • Shopping Online Labor Day Sales 2020 • Staying Sober During Holidays • Can Mindfulness Help My Addiction Recovery? • Bay Area Addiction Rehab Labor Day 2020 For many, Labor […]
10 Tips for Low Stress WFH Schooling While Maintaining Sobriety
Work From Home Schooling – Don’t Panic • You Can Do This! Tips for WFH School and Self Care • Mid-day Margaritas are Not a Good Coping Strategy This is one of the most challenging times in recent history. It seems the more things change – the more things keep changing. And we will get […]
Summer Sobriety, Wellness and Relapse Prevention
Summer Fun, Mindfulness and Self Care Cultivating a Relaxed State of Mind at Home Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure; nor this thing nor that – but simply Growth. We are happy when we are growing. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Irish Poet. In This Article • Surviving and Thriving Summer of COVID-19 • Personal Growth […]
Have a Safe, Sober and Happy 4th of July!
New Start Recovery Solutions Happy 4th of July! • Let Freedom Ring • “Indeed, nothing moves our spirits to a more patriotic place than the brave men and women who proudly defend our country from every shore with the most valuable possession they hold dear — their lives. In spite of the endless debates we often […]
East Bay Addiction Rehab COVID-19 Mindfulness Stress Relief
Mindfulness Stress Relief and Relapse Prevention Emotional Stability, Resilience and Hope Resilience: The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; emotional strength. Table of Contents • Reducing Fear and Stress Habitual Reactions • Mindfulness, Stoicism and Inner Balance • Mindfulness Exercise • East Bay Medical Detox and SUD Rehab Admissions 24/7 • East Bay Dual Diagnosis Residential Rehab […]
East Bay Rehab Maintaining Sobriety While Sheltering in Place
How to Decrease Alcohol and Drug Consumption Mindfulness, Mocktails and Reframing In This Article: · Stay at Home Healthy Alcohol Consumption · What is Excessive Drinking? · Reframe the ‘Stay at Home’ Situation · Mindfulness for Anxiety Relief · Mindfulness, Addiction Recovery, Relapse Prevention · Mindfulness Lifestyle for Wellness · Benefits of Mindfulness · ‘Mocktails’ […]
Recovery Support Groups
Recovery Support Groups Below, a list of recovery resources from various categories, including substance abuse. These links are presented for information only. Alcohol, Drug, Prescription Medication Abuse Alcoholics Anonymous: Search for the telephone numbers of AA Central Offices and Intergroups by zip code or state. The site does not give you locations of local meetings, but […]
Northern California Mindfulness Meditation and Addiction Recovery
Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention Mindfulness is Key to a Wellness Lifestyle Mindfulness meditation research shows that Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention is effective. Jump to Northern California Evidence-Based Whole Person Addiction Rehab Study results find that mindfulness interrupts reactive behaviors and encourages thoughtful and skillful responses to addiction relapse triggers. Studies have also shown that alterations in […]
Sober Curious Recovery – Great News for Relapse Prevention
Sober Recovery is ‘Hip’ In 2019 • Culture Shift: ‘Booze Culture’ Losing Popularity • Mindfulness and Health Consciousness are Making Sobriety Cool A major obstacle for relapse prevention in alcohol use disorder has always been the pervasive nature of alcohol in our culture. And the social stigma of drinking non-alcoholic club soda at business meetings […]
Spring Forward to Recovery
Moving Forward with Relapse Prevention and Mindfulness · March 20 First Day of Spring 2019 · The first day of spring 2019 is finally here! After a long winter of rain, cold days, winds and low sunlight – rays of hope (and sunshine!) are appearing. Spring – Time of New Beginnings With spring comes longer […]
Addiction Recovery Personal Growth, Positive Changes
New Year Positive Growth Potential Whatever the Cause of Personal Trauma – New Year Growth Wishes Posttraumatic Addiction-Related Growth Individuals recovering from substance abuse report both negative outcomes (posttraumatic stress symptoms requiring dual diagnosis treatment) – as well as positive changes. The positive changes resulting from addiction recovery are described as posttraumatic addiction-related growth. ‘Addiction-related growth’ […]
Staying Sober Holidays 101
Protecting Sobriety, Avoiding Triggers Preventing Relapse Holiday Sobriety Tips for Successfully Managing Holiday Stress With planning, self-care, seeking support and mindfulness – Holidays can be successfully navigated. For the average person – holidays can create enormous stress and emotional upset. For the newly sober and those in recovery – holidays can create overwhelming emotional upset […]
Addiction, Nutrition and Happiness
Is Good Nutrition Key to Addiction Recovery? Healthy Food Supports Addiction Recovery Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. — Hippocrates, Father of Medicine, 431 B.C. Your Brain – on Food In a recent article in the Harvard Medical School, Nutritional Psychiatry: Your Brain on Food, the connection between nutrition and depression, […]
RELAPSE PREVENTION PLAN
Preventing Relapse, Staying Sober It is important to remember: With a relapse prevention plan – you don’t have to relapse to work it. The main things we are trying to identify are high-risk situations and how to manage them. We all have “self-talk” in our head and it can lead to positive or negative thinking. […]
New Year 2018 – Tips for New Starts
Only 365 Days Available for Change – Let’s Get Started! 2018 – A Year for Inner Transformation “You have to believe in yourself.” Sun Tzu A New Year always brings unlimited opportunities for change. However, because of the multitude of possibilities, many of us start out strong – and then become overwhelmed by all the […]
5 Tips for Sober Holidays
Holiday Sobriety is Possible Maintain a Strong Intent to Stay Sober. Avoid people, places and things that bring memories of previous drinking or drugging. Maintain emotional balance; mindfulness is very helpful. Whenever possible, limit exposure to stressful or triggering situations. Have fun – sober! Find happiness in your life. Call 866-303-6275 for confidential questions and […]