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14 Essential Tips for a Healthy Life in Recovery – Tip #2 – Vitamins

November 13, 2019 By Denise Leave a Comment

Vitamins help tremendously in helping your brain achieve normalcy.

Although vitamins can get costly, it is important to prioritize. At the very minimum, fish oil, vitamin B, and a multivitamin will help.

Alcohol and drugs tend to deplete all the vitamins in your body so it is important to start to help your body now. Other recommended vitamins would be vitamin C and vitamin D supplements. Vitamin B can also help with energy levels so should be considered.

Recommended Vitamins

Multi Vitamins & Minerals Tablets
Choose a great multi vitamin that does a basic job at keeping the essential nutrients you need on a daily basis.

Natural Fish Oil Concentrate with Omega-3
The benefits of fish oil go on for miles but include increased energy and mood while regulating cholesterol.

Vitamin C (500 mg)
Vitamin C can help rebuild and improve your immune system along with strengthening your overall health.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: addict, addiction, Addiction Professional, alcohol, alcoholism, chemical dependency, dependency, motivation, sobriety, substance abuse, substance abuse treatment, treatment plan

14 Essential Tips for a Healthy Life in Recovery – Tip #1 – Nutrition and Healthy Eating

November 11, 2019 By Denise Leave a Comment

 

Nutrition is one of the most important aspects of healing the body and mind. Your body needs to be fueled with the proper nutrients on a daily basis. If you are used to eating fast food, processed, microwave, high fat meals, you will need to drastically change this part of your life.

To get the best results for your mind and body you will need to eat well balanced meals. First, begin with portion control. Eat often and do not gorge. You should be eating 3-5 medium to small meals per day. Each meal should consist of at least a serving of fruit, a serving of vegetables, and some protein and carbohydrates in at least two of the meals. Stay away from processed foods and limit your dairy and gluten intake. If you are working, try bringing your lunch to avoid going out.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: addiction, Addiction Professional, alcohol, chemical dependency, Chemical Dependency Professional, dependency, drugs, motivation, nicotine?, nutrition, recovery, rehab, sobriety

People call me weird

March 28, 2018 By Denise Leave a Comment

Aren’t you going to just have one?

“Come on you can have just one drink”

I hear this over and again.

Ever since I stopped drinking people don’t invite me out anymore, call me weird and just can’t understand why I don’t drink.

I want to be sober because I want to live the best possible life I can. And alcohol messes that up.

I’m like Tom Cruise. Because not drinking in today’s society is basically Mission Impossible.

The problem is that now I don’t fit in with most people, workplaces or even my own family.

Every time I’m out with other people they have questions about my sobriety or make comments about their own habits.

“You never come to happy hours.”

“I don’t drink that much.”

“I just drink on the weekends.”

Looking back that’s probably why I started Live Rehab with my partner.

We were talking the other day about this exact thing, “People aren’t going to understand are they?”

I replied, “Nope. But we have to keep on trying anyway.”

She paused, then laughed, “There has got to be other people like us right?”

When we’re looking to help people through Live Rehab we look for people who want to live the same kind of life.

Fathers who don’t want to wake up hungover anymore.

Mom’s who are sick of drinking around their kids.

Athletes who can’t risk they professional careers by drinking too much.

Hollywood celebrities that aren’t interested in traditional rehab.

Because there is nothing better than finally getting sober and living the best life possible.

The key is to know you’re in the right.

Then live it consciously.

Sober Life
Woman living a sober life

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: addiction, Addiction Professional, alcohol, alcoholism, chemical dependency, dependency, family, heavy user, planning to quit, recovery, rehab, sobriety, substance abuse, substance abuse treatment, treatment plan

Dry January Day #1: Cultivating an Attitude of Gratitude

January 4, 2018 By Denise Leave a Comment

Today we want to talk about something really important – having an attitude of gratitude.

Now it might sound a bit funny or even a bit weird but having an attitude of gratitude is a very powerful tool in your addiction recovery process. What do we mean by an attitude of gratitude?

People that we often see in the addiction recovery field, specifically addicts, especially when they first ask for help, often find themselves in a situation where they feel like they don’t have a lot to be grateful for it. They may have really damaged relationships in the past they may have done some really messed up stuff they may have broken laws. There are even situations where they have potentially physically injured other people.

And so it can be difficult for them to get to a place where they have gratitude in their lives and they may not even believe they are worthy of gratitude.

One of the first things that we teach people is that there are lots of things in your life to be grateful for. Cultivating a strong practice of gratitude causes the universe to respond in a way that presents you with more to be grateful for. We learned a long time ago from a great spiritual teacher, Dr Michael Bernard Beckwith, who said essentially that what you focus on expands. For people that are struggling with addiction having a focus on gratitude ensures that you are able to focus on the positive things in life and then more of those positive things can come back to you.

Well, that’s all fine and dandy but coming up with an attitude of gratitude isn’t something that you can just switch on and off. It requires deep, thoughtful, hard work. How do you do this? One of the best ways that we recommend doing this is simply through the use of a gratitude journal. A gratitude journal works pretty easy and should be kept on a bedside table. Either right when you wake up, which is a great time to do it, or right before you go to bed, you just simply take a few moments to write out between five and 10 things that you’re grateful for. And that’s it!

We had a funny interaction just the other day with somebody who said “Five to 10 things? I can’t think of five to 10 things that and I’m grateful for”. To which we responded with:

Do you have fingers? They said yes. There’s one thing.
Do You have toes? They said yes. Now we have two things.

So you can see that there are things to be grateful for even if you can’t think of any even if you can’t think of something in your life big you start with something small.

Start with the small things in life like your ability to breathe for instance; it’s crucial, but it goes under appreciated. So every day as you develop this practice it’s OK to duplicate things. It’s perfectly ok to be grateful for things repeatedly as well – we just suggest that you mix it up a little bit every day so not every day you’re just thankful for your fingers and toes and breathing but you know find little things throughout the day.

Then, try and keep those things in your mind throughout the day. Think of those things whenever you can. And this is just a key pathway to developing these different skills and an attitude of gratitude will undoubtedly lead you into a much better mind spacing and a much better healing space where some of the really deep work can start.

So I ask you to put in the comments today – what are five things that you’re grateful for?

To your recovery,

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7 Things about Drug and Alcohol Recovery Nobody Tells You

December 19, 2017 By Denise Leave a Comment

7 Things About Recovery they Don’t Tell you

Thinking back to the early days of recovery I remember a certain sense of bewilderment and shock. Now some of that was certainly due to the fact I was no longer a chronic drinker but some of it was due to how the world would treat me now. Over time I’ve come to realise that nobody really talks about these things out loud. In fact, I’ve talked to many addicts who have been through professional rehab facilities that agree with these 7 things. So, without further adieu, here are the 7 things about recovery nobody tells you.

Your body is coming back to you like a foreign object

When you first stop drinking or smoking or snorting whatever it is you are addicted to, some changes occur in your body. Now you might be thinking – duh! Obviously. But what most people don’t realise is that the body you get back has been wrecked in ways you have no way of knowing. Your body won’t fully recover for years to come and, when it does, it’s going to be a different beast altogether.

People hate/admire what they don’t have

I’ve talked about WTF moments of sobriety before but you’ve got to prepare yourself, in advance, for the avalanche of fucked up shit you’re going to have to deal with. People are going to say the weirdest things to you. I won’t go into all of them but BE PREPARED!

Free time

Yep. You’re going to have lots more free time that you used to. It’s not all going to come back to you at one time though. For every 3 minutes you spend smoking a cigarette each day multiplied by number by day! That’s the trick though – you have to think about the time as adding up in general.

New things to fill that free time

Find some new things to fill that time. If you were a smoker for instance and took smoke breaks at work, try filling it with something else. Take a quick walk around the block. Fidget with some legos at your desk. You need to be an active participant in this stage. Find a hobby. Quick.

Extra brain power

This one is a bit weird and may not apply to everyone BUT lots of people we talk to find a surge in brain power. Now, some of this comes from not being in a fog or daze from the drugs or alcohol. But to get this affect it’s going to take a while. Some people report 6-12 months before this onset occurs. Be patient.

Your balance

Your balance is going to get a bit wibbly wobbly for a while. Alcohol affects the equilibrium and it’s not until 3-9 months before it comes back properly. You’re going to see weird things happen over time including potentially being way off balance.

You find yourself

Ok this one was cheesy. But nobody prepares you for the emotional changes you end up experiencing until it settles in for real. Then you get to see, experience and feel the best possible version of yourself.

So, now we ask you, our Live Rehab community, what things have you noticed that nobody warned you about in recovery?

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: addiction, alcohol, alcoholism, chemical dependency, counselor, dependency, drug use, motivation, planning to quit, recovery, sobriety, substance abuse treatment

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