Recovery is possible, and at Workit Health we’re here to celebrate people’s positive changes. Find stories of recovery to inspire your own journey.
If you’re struggling, and not sure you can make it, I urge you to not focus in on Anthony and Kate as the only two stories of celebrities struggling with depression right now. There are plenty of unremarkable and everyday stories of overcoming depression.
Dealing with trauma is tough. It’s more than tough, it’s heartbreakingly challenging and it shakes the foundation of your recovery.
I caught up with award-winning writer/director Tess Sweet to talk about her own recovery from addiction, her web series Cleaner Daze, and why it’s important to recover out loud.
How can we handle dental pain in sobriety? Olivia Pennelle from Liv’s Recovery Kitchen talks about making the decision to take pain meds to handle her pain from extensive dental work.
We caught up with YA author Amy Reed to talk about how her own recovery from addiction has evolved, and what advice she has to give teens ready to get sober.
Lisa McLaughlin, Workit Health's Co-Founder and Co-CEO, just celebrated 16 years sober. Here are 16 ways her recovery has evolved.
March is National Nutrition Month. As a person recovering from a disordered relationship with food, I’m a big fan of making more mindful choices and this is a perfect opportunity to take stock of some powerful tools you can use to enhance your recovery.
I caught up with Tracey Helton Mitchell, recovering heroin addict and author of The Big Fix: Hope After Heroin, to talk about her work in harm reduction, her book, and how she stays sober today.
Why do we celebrate quitting drugs, but never talk about quitting smoking? Smoking in recovery is a paradox: I’d chosen to stop harming myself with drugs and alcohol and find recovery, yet I was slowly killing myself by smoking.
Amanda S. is a Michigan-based Recovery Advocate for medication assisted treatment, substance use disorder, mental health and chronic pain. She is in long term recovery and uses her story to help others.
Dr. Valerie Mason-John is the co-founder of 8 Step Recovery and one of the leaders in the secular recovery movement. I tracked her down to ask about her history and her own recovery, as well as the movement she's creating.
From my very first codeine tablet, I was hooked. That warm fuzzy feeling permeated my body and my migraine—caused by severe dehydration and four bottles of wine the night before—almost vanished into thin air. I was transported to this almost memory-foam-type-fluffy-cloud.
Amy Dresner's memoir 'My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean' is the addiction memoir everyone's talking about. In My Fair Junkie, Amy recounts the grim places addiction to drugs, alcohol, and sex took her. I snagged some of Amy's time to ask her a few questions about the small victories she celebrates today at 5 years sober, how her family feels about the memoir, and more.
I’m always thinking of quitting drugs. Because I did it, 8 years ago. And because now I’m Workit’s Community Lead, and I’m making sure all our content is speaking to our community: those looking to quit drugs, those not ready to quit just yet, and those already in recovery from drug addiction.
For anyone in recovery, exercise is your friend—especially over the holidays. I know that the last thing most people feel like doing at the end of the year is expending more energy; it’s a time we’re winding down and taking some much needed time out.
Learning to care for ourselves isn’t easy, especially if we have spent years abusing our body with disordered eating. Even though we may have stopped harming ourselves, the process of recovery goes beyond stopping that behavior—we need to learn how to take care of our needs.
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