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How to Navigate Social Situations When Living Sober

Created By: Cypress Lake Recovery Team

Navigating social gatherings can be a challenge when living sober, particularly during the early stages of your recovery. This is when you are rewiring your brain in numerous ways, including as it relates to its reward centers, and creating a…

Relapse Prevention: Understanding and Avoiding Triggers

How to Prevent Relapse by Avoiding Triggers

Created By: Cypress Lake Recovery Team

Addiction interferes with the way the brain functions to control vital organs. Addiction changes all aspects of a person’s life including relationships and responsibilities and can lead to severe mental and physical health complications or early death. The euphoric effects…

Tips for Safely Quitting Alcohol and Staying Sober

Created By: Cypress Lake Recovery Team

Excessive alcohol use can lead to harmful mental and physical changes in your body. Over time, the alcohol takes control of your brain’s normal functions and creates a physical dependency. When you drink alcohol, neurotransmitters release dopamine, which is why…

Why Your Loved One Might be Reluctant to Seek Treatment

Created By: Cypress Lake Recovery Team

Addiction puts a person at risk for life-threatening health complications. Substance use disorders and addiction cause brain damage, liver failure, nerve damage, heart attack, overdose, and early death. Mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, or paranoia develop from substance…

How to Approach a Friend about Their Addiction

Created By: Cypress Lake Recovery Team

If you are concerned about a friend’s addiction, you might find it difficult to approach them about the issue. When you are concerned about a loved one’s addiction, that person may not think they have a problem. It can be…

The Danger of Alcohol-Induced Blackouts

Created By: Cypress Lake Recovery Team

Blackouts were once associated with alcoholism but can happen when a person drinks a lot of alcohol too fast. Blackouts cause long-term damage. High levels of alcohol impair the part of the brain that forms new memories. A blackout is…

Creating A Healthy Support System For Recovery

Creating A Healthy Support System for Addiction Recovery

Created By: Cypress Lake Recovery Team

During the treatment process, many avenues for support are available right within the treatment grounds. Learning to create a support system outside of treatment is important for transitioning into after care and independence. Family Not everyone who comes to treatment…

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How Learning an Instrument Can Help in Addiction Recovery

Created By: Cypress Lake Recovery Team

Learning an instrument is a rigorous hobby that yields great rewards. Though there are many other hobbies that go hand in hand with recovery and a sober life, learning an instrument has a combination of benefits across the mind, body,…

Woman learning to spend time alone in her addiction recovery

Learning To Spend Time Alone Is Essential for Addiction Recovery

Created By: Cypress Lake Recovery Team

In early recovery, it is best to be around people often. Group therapy and support is extremely crucial for the addiction recovery process and living a sober life. However, without learning to spend time alone, other people can become a…

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