Texas Addiction Recovery Blog
Take a Walk
Excuse me if I get too preachy or overenthusiastic today, but we’ll be discussing a topic near and dear to my heart—walking. Walking is one of my favorite activities. It does so much for me. It can do so much for practically everyone. Like all exercise, it can be...
Building Confidence, Stopping the Questions
Do you ask yourself a lot of questions? Do you question yourself often? Questions are a part of life. But if we’re constantly questioning ourselves and if the questions are preventing us from making decisions or taking actions, we might have a problem. Constantly...
Recovery and Relationships
If you’ve successfully completed drug or alcohol rehab, congratulations! Your hard work and struggles have led to a great accomplishment. As you’re probably discovering, your hard work and struggles aren’t done. You’re still trying to navigate the world in new ways....
Helping the Relatives of Addicts
Relationships can be tricky enough during good times. If people are abusing drugs or alcohol, or even if they’re in recovery from such abuse, relationships can be even more difficult. When people are abusing substances, drugs or alcohol seem to become the third person...
Dealing with a Toxic Family
Many people leave drug and alcohol rehab only to discover that they still have work to do. This work relates to the people in their lives. Sadly, some people have toxic families or toxic family members. Toxic family members are family members who behave in ways that...
Anger Is Powerful
“You wouldn't like me when I’m angry,” is what Bruce Banner says when describing the creature he periodically becomes, the Incredible Hulk. Luckily, we don’t deal with anger the exact same way as Bruce Banner. But we all have at least a little of the Incredible Hulk...
Just in Time
At first, this post might seem like a departure from what we usually talk about around here. But if you stick with me, you’ll see that it relates to our overall general conversation. The topic of this post is time management. Yeah, that makes it sound as if our post...
The Confusion of Addiction and Recovery
Drug and alcohol abuse can cause some confusing times. So can recovery. Searching for and using drugs and alcohol, and recovering from using drugs and alcohol, can take a lot of time. Addicts’ drug habits can dominate their lives. When they enter recovery, people are...
You’re Good Enough
Do you know about the Stuart Smalley sketches on the program Saturday Night Live? These sketches starred comedian (and now U.S. senator) Al Franken as the character Stuart Smalley, who hosted a fictional show called Daily Affirmation with Stuart Smalley. As part of...
The Opioid Epidemic
We keep hearing news reports about the opioid epidemic? What is it? What are opioids? Are we really experiencing an opioid epidemic? Opioids might sound exotic, but they’re really just one category of drugs. Opioids are drugs related to opium. Opiates are another term...