Home’s a Feeling, Not a Place: Randy’s Story of Recovery
Born behind bars and using drugs by 15, Randy found a way to turn his life around. Now he’s in recovery with the support of Workit Health.
Practical guides, member stories, and clinical answers — written by people in recovery and reviewed by addiction medicine clinicians. Updated weekly.
Born behind bars and using drugs by 15, Randy found a way to turn his life around. Now he’s in recovery with the support of Workit Health.
To date in early addiction recovery, or not to date? That is the question.
Some experts identify three stages of relapse. Here are the warning signs and some steps you can take to head them off. Sometimes it seems like relapse is a boogeyman of recovery—the scary threat that’s always lurking just out of sight. But there are often warning signs and preventative measures
If you’re like me, the gap between healthy boundaries and unhealthy boundaries isn’t at all difficult to measure. Unhealthy boundaries generally equates with no boundaries. And, well, healthy boundaries are for the other idiots who don’t realize that you don’t need boundaries!
Recovery groups are important. We’ve shared about some of the ways they support recovery in previous blog posts. Since then, Workit Labs conducted an analysis of Workit Health members who started treatment in 2022 for alcohol or opioids. They found that those who attended a group session within the first
Our feeling of new freedom in July happens to coincide with the wedding season — perhaps one of the more difficult occasions to navigate as a sober person.
Sobriety can be really daunting. If you’re like me, the prospect of staying sober a whole year can seem downright impossible. When I first got sober, I spent many hours with a Styrofoam cup of coffee in my hand—filled half way so my shaking hand wouldn’t spill it—thinking about what
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