If you understand the fundamentals of addiction, you’ll understand that it was never about the drugs or alcohol or other self-destructive behaviours. What characterizes addiction is the obsessive and compulsive nature of the behaviour and also what happens when we do act out on that […]
How Do Addicts Make Decisions
Learning about the economics of decision-making could mean the difference between relapse and long-term sobriety. Most, if not all, addicts and alcoholics struggle with quitting and staying sober. And many have an equally hard time understanding why. What if would-be recovering addicts and alcoholics knew […]
Living in Recovery
It took me close on ten years to figure out the difference between the two. One is a fight, the other is freedom. I’ve often heard people saying that it’s a constant fight to stay clean. In my opinion that is abstinence, if you are […]
Pushing Through
It’s not always rainbows and sunshine in early recovery. Gone is the myth, just because I've stopped using everything will be okay now. On the contrary, because you've stopped using or acting out on your addiction you will start to see the REAL wreckage of your past. All those feelings that […]
New Relationships
Through our using we came to believe falsely that we were self-sufficient; that we didn’t need anyone else, we couldn’t stand anyone else as long as we had our drugs. Through this thinking, our interpersonal skills and abilities to communicate with others were put on […]
Social Media Linked to Substance Abuse
Plenty of research has demonstrated that the addictive quality of social media is very real. And according to a new study, heavy social media use may also contribute to a different type of addiction. Psychologists at the University of Albany found that not only is […]
Integrity
Recovery happens in secret. For many years I put up a front when I got out of treatment. Everything was fine and I was now in recovery. How did I know that it wasn't real ? I was not the same person when I was alone […]
Life on Life’s Terms
As we all know life throws out some curve balls. Nothing is to be expected except the unexpected. People pass away, friends leave, plans change. The only constant is that life has its own terms and conditions. I can't control the way other people are, […]
Personal Time
Our primary goal at Cherrywood House is to steer clients and families through their chaos and pain, to a place of freedom, reconciliation and joy. Our team and our program is specifically geared towards 'relentless but sensitive therapy'. We believe that we have to dis-empower […]
How To Help A Drug Addict
The goal of an intervention is to get the chemically dependent individual to accept the need for help now. Three key facets need to be considered as a means of creating as successful an intervention as possible: Dynamic Factors: The abuse of loved ones, the […]
