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Just Surviving to Thriving: Personal Growth in Recovery
Living with addiction or mental health challenges can feel like being trapped in an endless cycle of just getting by. The constant struggle to maintain stability can leave little energy for dreaming...
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Nutrition for Anxiety and Depression: Supplements for Deficiencies (Part 6)
In Part 4, we discussed how certain vitamin and mineral deficiencies can contribute to depression and anxiety. While obtaining nutrients from food is always the ideal approach, it’s not always...
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Drinking and Your Menstrual Cycle
Your menstrual cycle and factors like cycle length, regularity, and flow can be important indicators of overall health. Meanwhile, diet, exercise, and lifestyle can have a significant impact on cycle...
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Robert Downey Jr.: Lessons in Mental Health
Many people know Robert Downey, Jr., for his role as Tony Stark in Iron Man, the title character in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes movies, and Kirk Lazarus in Tropic Thunder. However, beyond his...
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Nutrition for Anxiety and Depression: The Gut-Brain Connection (Part 7)
Have you ever heard the saying, “You are what you eat”? Well, it turns out that your gut health plays a much bigger role in your mental well-being than you might think. The gut-brain connection has...
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2025 Graduate Hope for Healing Winner: The Power of “Feeling Seen and Heard”
Kim Koger doesn’t remember much from her early years in a foster home in South Korea — and the circumstances that brought her there are still hazy. Her birth parents had reportedly abandoned her at a...
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What Sets Shatterproof FHE Health Apart
Shatterproof FHE Health is a specialized addiction and mental health treatment program for first responders. Its treatments, therapies, and supports are designed to address the unique needs of the men...
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Nutrition for Anxiety and Depression: Gut Inflammation, Leaky Gut, and Stress...
In part one of this series, we discussed how inflammation, in general, contributes to mental health challenges like depression and anxiety. In this eighth part, we will focus specifically on how gut...
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5 Key Benefits of Residential Treatment for Addiction
Addiction is a complex illness that most often requires professional treatment. Uncomfortable or dangerous withdrawal symptoms, environments with triggers or reminders of substance use, and friends and...
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Remote Therapy: Signs That It’s Working, from an Expert
More Americans than ever before are receiving therapy, and most of them — via a working Internet connection and online meeting platform. Remote therapy soared in popularity during the pandemic and has...
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Managing Stress Without Turning to Substances
One of the most challenging hurdles for an addict is learning how to deal with stress without alcohol. In fact, studies have shown that 50% of people relapse within the first 12 weeks after leaving...
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The Consequences for Pets of Substance Abuse
Substance abuse rarely affects just the individual. It tends to become a challenge for everyone in the addict’s life, including the silent companions. Pets need their owners for their health and...
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Cancer Warnings on Alcohol and the Risks: A Medical Expert’s Take
Alcohol is a leading cause of cancer. Yet much of the public does not know about this danger or the full extent of it. In efforts to raise awareness, former Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, M.D.,...
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9 Reasons to Be Thankful in Recovery
Addiction takes over countless lives, often leaving many lost in its vicious cycle of withdrawals, cravings and control. Hopelessness and fear are very common feelings for drug abusers. There’s the...
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DUI – A Common Outcome of Alcohol Abuse
Research shows that alcohol abuse has negative health effects, including impaired judgment, poor coordination, vomiting, slurred speech and memory loss. If you choose to drive while intoxicated,...
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How Gratitude Can Help you Live Longer
Living with gratitude offers numerous positive health effects, from greater emotional and social well-being and better sleep to improved cardiovascular health and a reduced risk of depression. These...
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The “Fail First” Model for Rehab Insurance
This story isn’t new. In fact, it’s the same story for many people and families all over the country. It looks like this: Rehab insurance policies often refuse to cover inpatient care as a first...
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Nutrition for Anxiety and Depression: Blood Sugar’s Role (Part 9)
If you’ve made it this far in our 10-part series on nutrition and mental health — welcome back! And if you’re just joining in, don’t let the fact that this is Part 9 fool you: This topic is just as...
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Breaking the Cycle of Addiction and Codependency
Over 20 million people in the United States struggle with substance abuse. Addiction and relationships are often interlinked, resulting in volatile personal lives. Loved ones close to addicts typically...
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Self-Medicating to Deal with Depression and Anxiety
Mental health and substance abuse are often interlinked. In fact, according to survey results, 35% of mentally ill adults in the United States also struggle with substance abuse. Instead of seeking...
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