Texas Addiction Recovery Blog
What Is Codependency?
Dependency. It’s a word that relates to addiction and relationships. In fact, dependency (or codependency), addiction, and relationships can be connected in different, complex ways. We often hear the term codependent, but what does it really mean? A codependent person...
Emotions, Relationships, and Life after Rehab
Most relationships can be challenging in one way or another. Relationships after rehab can be especially challenging. That’s because rehab and recovery can be intensely emotional experiences. Many times, people enter therapy during these experiences. This therapy can...
Relationships after Recovery
Former addicts sometimes jump quickly into relationships after rehab. They might do this because they’re trying to recreate the rush of good feelings that they found in drugs and alcohol. While jumping into any relationship could be risky, depending on the...
The Intoxication of Drugs, Alcohol, and Love
Love is a drug. Love can make you high. Several songs compare love and sex to drugs that have intoxicating effects. It makes sense. Love, sex, and drugs and alcohol all make us feel good physically and mentally. They all stimulate feel-good chemicals in the brain. If...
Measuring Your Strength
Yesterday we talked about strength in recovery. When former addicts go to rehab, they think they’re weak. This might be true physically, because drug and alcohol abuse can hurt our physical strength. On the other hand, former addicts are strong mentally. After all,...
Strong People Seek Help
Strength. Strength is an important word in rehab and recovery. People seeking help for drug abuse or alcohol addictions might not think that they’re strong. In fact, they might think that they’re the opposite of strong. Physically, this might be true. Addiction can...
Rewards of the Recovery Journey
We’ve been talking a lot lately about viewing recovery as a journey. In this view, recovery is an ongoing goal, not a final destination. Using this perspective, we can view setbacks as temporary roadblocks, not as insurmountable barriers. Viewing recovery as a journey...
Recovery as an Ongoing Goal
Yesterday, we talked about how recovery is a journey, not a destination. Although we go through rehab with the goal of becoming sober, sobriety is an ongoing goal. It’s not a goal that you reach, a goal that ends. Instead, sobriety is an ongoing goal that we strive...
Stepping out on a Journey
“It’s the journey, not the destination” is a cliché, but like a lot of clichés, there’s a kernel of truth in there. Recovery is a journey. If you’re recovering from a drug or alcohol problem, you’re facing one of the longest journeys in your life. In fact, it’s a...
Watching Television Can Be a Good Thing
Going to the movies. Reading a book. Watching a favorite television show. Like many people, I find these activities to be three of my favorite simple pleasures of life. But sadly, we sometimes beat ourselves up for doing those things. We’re constantly telling...