7 Must Watch Recovery Ted Talks By Haley Kennedy, Lead Recovery Coach — 8.28.2020 — There is often an enormous stigma around addiction and recovery in our culture, despite everything we know and continue to learn. It can cause people to suffer in silence and delay getting help. And something I don’t think is common practice in society, is to […]
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Building Mindfulness Skills
Does anyone else have a problem with projecting into the future or over-thinking the past? I have a bad habit of doing both, and personally, the recent life changes and challenges have made them so much worse. I find myself spending too much time thinking about what was and what could have been, or […]
Checking in Rather Than Checking out
It’s not the lack of awareness that makes me feel like my life is on overload, but rather feeling like I’m caught in a whirlwind created by forces beyond my control. Playing catch up, running around and feeling stressed out most of the time takes its toll on me. It affects my health, my mood, […]
Building Resilience
Resilience is defined as the capacity to cope with, recover from, or adjust easily to misfortune or change despite setbacks, barriers, or limited resources. Well in my opinion, that definition explains the first six months of 2020. Would you agree? If you ask me, I cannot imagine a more valuable skill, for success and happiness […]
“The opposite of addiction is connection.”
A huge part of the disease of addiction is isolation. So, what does that mean for the recovery community during a pandemic? I have a personal and professional fear on this topic… In my personal life, as an individual in recovery, I attend numerous twelve-step meetings, as well as support groups and I depend on […]
Plymouth County Outreach Releases Document of Resources Relating to COVID-19
PLYMOUTH — The Police Chiefs of Plymouth County would like to report that despite the ongoing closures and restrictions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, several resources are available to those in need. “COVID-19 has hit the recovery community hard. Many people rely on community connection to maintain their recovery and COVID-19 took that in-person connection […]