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.
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.
Cravings come and go. But when you're experiencing a craving, it can be impossible to remember that it's temporary. Gathering go-to coping tools to guide you through cravings is key to successfully sticking to your plan, and not giving in when craving strikes.
New Year's Eve is the ultimate excuse to party hard. Call it amateur hour, but New Year’s makes drug users everywhere, reformed and not, pause and remember crazy years past. So what can you do on New Year’s, if you aren’t planning to get high?
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.
I’ll never forget the first time I discovered that food could help me escape; I was around six years old.
Anna David, former party girl and author, shares her thoughts on current party girl, Cat Marnell's new book How To Murder Your Life.
After his using took him everywhere from jail to rehab, David Adam, has been sober since October 2013. Read on to learn about David's recovery journey.
The problem, as I see it, isn’t the word addict. It’s that some people don’t allow that label to evolve.
No one starts out an addict. But as patterns of behavior become more dramatic, the lies we tell ourselves balloon. Before we know it, we’re living in a bubble of craving, outlandish behavior, and irrational thought. Let’s check out some common lies we tell ourselves when it comes to addictions.
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