Are you recovering from addiction?

Let someone who's been there
help you put the joy back in your life!

Addiction. It's a scary word. Recovery can be even more fearsome... especially when you think you're all alone. When you're on the road to recovery from addiction, nothing beats the support and guidance you can get from those who have traveled it before you. (See About for more.)

Whether you've just started on your path or have been treading it for years, there can be pitfalls and challenges... anywhere, and at any time.

In moments like those, what options are available to you? The ones you know, of course. Increase your knowledge of what you can do - and learn how to do it - and you decrease the frequency and intensity of feelings of discouragement or despair. This can only result in a reduced risk of relapse, and a greater potential for joy in your life.

That is why you have landed on this site. To finally understand why you developed addictive tendencies and what you can do about it. To accomplish that, we're going to get right down to the nitty-gritty: you, not the substance. And, by the way, you won't find any information on the substances themselves on this site; you can get as much as you want on other sites.

Some of the most important steps in addiction recovery have nothing to do with the drink or the drug, or with stopping or quitting for that matter. That's the easy part: it's your choice to make. What's essential in long-term rehabilitation is understanding why you started using in the first place, and the benefits you have associated with continued use. Only then will you be able to effectively resolve what brought you to substance use.

Are you feeling discouraged? A helping hand in moments of despair can seem like a miracle. Why? Simply because we believe we have exhausted all available options, and then...

The key to preventing discouragement in your Personal Recovery Program is to make the options you need available to you to keep you focused and motivated.

Some problems need solutions right now. Their essence demands that short-term recovery strategies are not ignored. You will find tips and techniques on this site that you can put to good effect... immediately.

Why is the risk of relapse so high? No matter the substance or the habit, dependency fundamentally develops as a means to assuage the suffering that results from ill-managed emotions. The addictive use or consumption of a given substance becomes your method of choice to accomplish that task. Why? Because it works... by distraction.

The problem with that method is that it only works for a very short time. You have to use it again and again. It's time to add some long-term options to your list of choices. The more you can shift your focus on recovery to the long-term, the greater the probability you will be able to manage the short-term.

Much of what you will learn on this site is inspired by a variety of methods and approaches recognized and utilized by professionals in all spheres of addiction intervention. These include, but are not limited to:

• Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
  
  
• Schema Therapy
  
  
• Multimodal Therapy
  
  
• Holistic Therapy
  
  
• Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
  
  
• Harm Reduction
  
  
• Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET)
  
  

The benefits of each method of addiction intervention & rehabilitation are discussed on their corresponding pages. If you want to deepen your understanding of any of these methods, you will find links to a number of very informative sources on those pages. (To learn more, click the links above or the Recovery Methods link in the navbar of any page.)