Balance!

“The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, 
acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.” – Euripides, ancient Greek playwright  

Life....

Don’t ever forget it – life is precious. It can be taken in an instant. Don’t waste a moment of it.  The Dalai Lama says it best:

“Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.” – The Dalai Lama

10 Ways To Reduce Stress and Improve Your Recovery...

INTRO

I know when I was using, and in early sobriety, peace was not the word I would use to describe my life. Chaos would be pretty accurate. Misery would be accurate as well.  Feeling at peace is a wonderful goal for anyone in sobriety – because it is achievable and it can add a lot of years to your life.  Why? Because stress, chaos, anger, resentment, and misery all take their toll, not just psychologically but physically as well.

More and more evidence indicates that stress and the hormones released due to it take years off our lives.

Getting Through The Day In Early Recovery...

Introduction

The first few weeks of recovery may seem fraught with anxiety, a few sleepless nights, some depression, and more than a little uncertainty. Recovering addicts have to learn how to pace themselves, begin to put the coping skills and strategies they learned during treatment into practice, and get into the swing of a new – and clean – lifestyle. All that sounds great and makes sense, you might say – on paper. But if you’re new to recovery, you are probably wondering just how you can possibly get through today, let alone tomorrow.

There are strategies that you can employ to help you get through the early days of recovery.

Be You!

“Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion…What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.” – Anna Quindlen, from her book, Being Perfect  

Quote...

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.” – William James, American psychologist and philosopher 

Welcome....

Today marks the first day of the Crossroads Treatment Center's blog! Our goal is to maintain a blog that provides both useful information for patients entering or maintaining recovery and to provide a forum for the discussion of successful recovery strategies!