Category: Mental Health

Watching your loved one struggle with addiction is never easy. Though we may want to help, many of us don’t know how, or may end up engaging in enabling behaviors thinking we’re helping. We know how frustrating it can be to feel helpless in the face of addiction, whether you are on the inside of […]

Every well-being advice column is chalk full of tips on alleviating anxiety- you know the tired, rehashed advice we’ve heard our entire lives. Breathe deeply. Distract yourself. Remind yourself with positive affirmations that “everything is going to be okay.” Well, sometimes things are NOT okay. And that’s perfectly normal. Try these five anxiety-busting hacks for […]

One of the unfortunate yet seemingly unavoidable side effects of addiction recovery and sober living is that eventually you will reach an impasse: a moment where you must separate yourself from the life you used to lead and begin anew. Ideally, this new journey of enlightenment and wisdom would be travelled with friends and family […]

By: Julia Merrill PTSD, or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, can occur after many different events in a person’s life, including military service. In fact, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration estimates that “18.5% of service members returning from deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or depression.” Even more alarming […]

Update: The Holistic Healing, Crystals for Addiction, eBook is available for free. It covers a wider variety of crystals comprehensively, and includes remedies for addictive substances not mentioned here. It’s not a surprise the chronic disorder of addiction must be remedied on all planes of existence, but how can we do that resolutely when we, […]