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14 Essential Tips for a Healthy Life in Recovery – Tip #4 – Exercise

November 25, 2019 By Denise Leave a Comment

14 Essential Recovery Tips Series – #4 Exercise

Exercise is going to play a big role in how fast your body will return to normal. Many of us hate to exercise, especially right after a detox however, it is so important that you force yourself to do this daily.

Take is slow at first. It does not have to be vigorous, although that be preferable, it just has to be something that gets your blood pumping.

Think of a physical activity that you actually enjoy, or at least used to and start with that.

Some examples include running, walking outside, swimming, riding your bike, hiking, playing a sport, and yoga.

Commit to at least 20 minutes of physical activity per day and increase this time as it starts to get less painful. Motivation is the hardest part.

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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.

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Just don’t tell me to go to rehab

April 23, 2018 By Denise Leave a Comment

It makes my blood boil when people tell others that traditional rehab is the way to go.

Some people have no idea about non-traditional approaches to addiction and recovery.

I can’t really blame them though especially if they grew up in an era without the internet, apps and social media.

With today’s mobile technology and online access, we’re building a new way to source mental health support.

We have to allow people to get the help they need.

On their own terms

Terms that weren’t possible or available when we were younger.

Let people approach their sobriety and addiction or recovery program wherever they want. However, they want.

Not every addict needs to go a traditional treatment facility and drop $30k for group sessions that don’t support them in the real-world when shit hits the fan.

Not every addict should go to a weekly session and get a sponsor who might be just as fucked up as they are.

We’re in a world today full of 24/7 mental health support powered by technology.

I can’t tell an addict what route to take for recovery.

I don’t even know what route is best for the individual person because each person is individual and has their own needs.

All I can do is provide support and access to learning material and proven strategies for beating addiction – whether online or offline.

Your path for recovery is not the same as anyone elses.

Your path should be defined by you.

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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

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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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