By Haley Kennedy, Recovery Coach – 2.26.2021 — There’s been an explosive growth of nonclinical peer recovery support services, such as recovery coaching, as an adjunct or alternative to professionally directed substance use disorder treatment. Research has shown that recovery coaching enhances recovery initiation and long-term recovery maintenance through ensuring a high level of integration […]
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Self-Honesty Leads to Change
By Haley Kennedy, Recovery Coach – 1.29.2021 — The disease of addiction often accompanies dishonesty; you could say it is an essential fuel. There are lies about buying our substances, acting out in other behaviors, about which substances we use, and hiding any consequences that are a result of substance use. Some of us become […]
New Year’s Resolutions in Recovery
By Haley Kennedy, Recovery Coach – 1.1.2021 — The fresh start of a New Year. This symbolic new beginning can feel empowering and fill us with optimism, especially for those of us in recovery. Most of us and our lives have already been transformed in drastic ways and the New Year presents another opportunity to […]
I Would Have Robbed Myself
By Haley Kennedy, Recovery Coach – 12.18.2020 — If I made a list of things that I wanted when I went to treatment it would have looked a little bit like this: · I wanted to control my use to avoid consequences. · I needed my mother to get off my case. · I would […]
It Feels Good to Celebrate Without Substances
By Haley Kennedy, Recovery Coach – 12.04.2020 — The season between Thanksgiving and New Year’s is often considered as “the most wonderful time of the year.” But for some of us in recovery it can feel like the complete opposite. Most of us have worked hard to restructure our lives in support of our recovery […]
Combating Stigma
By Haley Kennedy, Recovery Coach – 11.20.2020 — There are many obstacles to overcoming substance use disorder and one of them is stigma. Substance use disorder stigma can prevent people from seeking help and can prevent loved ones, or the community from providing the support that they deserve and need. WHAT IS THE STIGMA OF […]