by Anthony Myers | Sep 27, 2016 | Addiction, Mental Health, Substance Abuse
Recovery is an ongoing process. While rehab can be a great tool, it’s only the beginning. Many factors lead to people’s addictions and their entry into rehab. Rehab facilities help people identify and address these factors, but rehab isn’t magic. It’s not some magic...
by Anthony Myers | Sep 25, 2016 | Addiction, Health and Wellness, Mental Health, Substance Abuse
We talked recently about self-confidence and the idea that we should consider faking it (confidence) until we make it. Some people might worry that this is a sign of being fake, of being inauthentic. This fear seems to be a common concern. It also relates to other...
by Anthony Myers | Sep 24, 2016 | Mental Health, Substance Abuse
“Fake it until you make it” is a phrase we often hear when we’re discussing mental health. While a lot of similar-sounding, rhyming phrases seem overly cutesy, this phrase can be useful. It can especially be useful when we’re treating mental health and substance use...
by Anthony Myers | Sep 23, 2016 | Mental Health, Substance Abuse
We’ve been talking about how we often beat ourselves up for things we did or said in the past. This kind of criticism is counterproductive, because we all know that we can’t change the past. But we can change things in the present. In fact, changing some things in the...
by Anthony Myers | Sep 21, 2016 | Addiction, Mental Health, Substance Abuse
“Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical,” famed baseball player and manager Yogi Berra once supposedly said. While Berra’s math might be suspect, we see his point. Sports are both physical and mental. Substance use disorder is also both...
by Anthony Myers | Sep 19, 2016 | Addiction, Mental Health, Substance Abuse
Confidence is an interesting thing. Having confidence in ourselves can help us in so many ways. On the other hand, if we don’t have self-confidence, this lack of confidence can have negative repercussions on so many areas of our lives. For example, low self-confidence...
