How to Handle a Loved One’s Relapse and Support Their Recovery
When a loved one relapses after a period of sobriety, it can feel devastating for family and friends. However, understanding relapse as a potential part of the recovery process and knowing how to respond effectively can make a crucial difference. This guide offers practical strategies for supporting your loved one while maintaining your own well-being. […]
How to Stay Sober: Your Guide to Long-Term Recovery
Staying sober is a lifelong journey that requires commitment, strategy, and support. For many, the initial steps toward recovery involve detox and rehabilitation, but maintaining sobriety requires ongoing effort. Below are practical strategies to help you navigate this path, along with insights into how Destination Hope’s aftercare and relapse prevention can support your long-term recovery. […]
Helping a Loved One with Alcoholism
Discover effective strategies to support someone struggling with alcoholism in this comprehensive blog. Learn about communication, emotional support, treatment options, boundaries, and self-care.
Four Reasons the Holidays Are Difficult for Clients and Families in Recovery
The holidays are a wonderful time of year during which families create precious memories as they celebrate and spend time together. However, for families with loved ones in treatment or early recovery, the holidays can be a difficult time. Understanding some of the underlying reasons for this difficulty can help families and their loved ones […]
Preventing Relapse Through Stress Management
Many aspects of a person’s life improve when they’re in recovery, but the stresses of everyday life don’t go away when they leave the treatment center. Stress is a normal and inevitable part of life, and it’s important to learn how to deal with tension and worry in healthy ways through stress management. Studies have […]
How to Stay Sober When Your Coworkers Aren’t
Addiction and The Workplace By some estimates, up to 40 percent of industrial fatalities and 47 percent of industrial injuries can be attributed to on-the-job alcohol consumption, according to the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence. Additionally, 21 percent of American workers reported being injured or endangered, having to re-do work or cover for their co-worker […]
Relapse Prevention Strategies That Work
Relapse prevention strategies that are truly effective have been created with honesty and specific details and are carried out with dedication and a realistic approach. Relapse prevention strategies help clients fight against addiction throughout their recovery processes with clear methods in mind. Your strategy should be specific to you and your lifestyle.
How to Stay Positive After a Relapse
Addiction is a chronic and relapsing disease. While it can’t be cured, complete abstinence can send it into remission. Using again once you’re in recovery can cause the addiction—the compulsive use of drugs or alcohol despite negative consequences—to return. This is known as relapse. And while relapse is not uncommon in the recovery community, it […]
Can Playing Tetris Help with Cravings?
Thanks to a recent study published in the journal Addictive Behaviors, you can now add a quick game of Tetris to your arsenal of ways to combat cravings. Many theoretical models have been developed to explain the anatomy of a craving, which is believed to be both physiological and psychological, according to the National Institute […]
Sustainable Sobriety Through the Holidays and Beyond
The holidays can be a stressful time. Money runs low, emotions run high, family gets under your skin and all the traveling during the busiest and most blustery time of year takes a huge bite out of your patience and sense of well-being. Thankfully, most of the time, we emerge on the other side of […]