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November 22, 2020
Recovery Store With Affordable Gift Ideas
How will a recovery store make gifting this season super easy? If you are one of the 23 million Americans in some form of recovery, like we are, you want some recovery products to both have some fun and keep your lifestyle front of mind. This has been a difficult year, and we wanted to...
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Recovery Products For A Recovery Lifestyle
Did you know that recovery gifts help focus a recovery life? Let me explain. Recently, we’ve been adding recovery products to the ROR website. This is because we know from our own lives that having recovery and wellness items around the house and office promote recovery! When I first came into recovery, I had a...
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#MaskUp: Is The Mask Mandate Unconstitutional
The hashtag #Maskup is circulating, and the CDC says it’s what we need to do to halt the Pandemic. This is not about you and your rights. It’s about us and our safety. You are put of an us. That’s what the mandate is all about. A deadly disease has killed more than a quarter...
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November 21, 2020
Covid-19 Isn’t The End Of The World We Will Recover
Covid-19 is one of many scourges and diseases humans have faced. Each disease teaches us new lessons. What are we learning now? Covid-19 isn’t the end of the world, but it is the end of life as we knew it. Call me horrid and mean, but as a recovery advocate I have to point out...
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November 20, 2020
Healthy Relationships Vs Toxic Relationships
Sometimes just knowing the difference makes all the difference Many people grow up in alcoholic, dysfunctional, or narcissistic families. In fact, there are some 27 million adult children of alcoholics and people suffering from Substance Use Disorders (SUD) in the US alone. Healthy relationships are almost possible in homes with substance or alcohol issues. Secrecy,...
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November 19, 2020
How Worry Stones Relieve Stress
Using crystals for energy and healing is a growing wellness trend, and worry stones provide the bonus of self soothing. If you need emotional relief from the trauma of 2020, and who doesn’t, this ancient technique is the newest thing, perfect for right now. Worry stones distract from overthinking I don’t know about you, but...
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Why Significant Childhood Trauma Is So Tough To Process
From Dr. Tian Dayton, Forgiving Parents: Breaking the Chain of Anger, Resentment and Pain – Triggered pain is so confusing to decode and deal with. Primarily, emotional responses to childhood trauma are recorded by the parts of the brain that were developed early in our evolution. This area of brain memory is often referred to...
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November 18, 2020
How To Heal The Damage Caused By An Alcoholic Family
Growing up in an alcoholic family can cause trauma Growing up in an alcoholic family caused wounds that still stalk me, but they can be healed. I’ve identified the five most painful issues I’m currently facing. and I’m using the following tools to heal. 1 – Secrecy (Don’t Tell Anyone I’m From An Alcoholic Family)...
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Sober Quote : True Friends
True friends can be the ones you don’t have the most fun with. Do you think people you drink and have fun with are your best friends? This quote is so real because having fun drinking with people is convenience, not real friendship. It’s all about the drinking. True friends do other things with you...
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November 17, 2020
Sober Quote: Staying Sober
Staying sober does seem to have some stages and even some different motivations. Most people get sober because they want to survive. They aren’t exactly willing. They just have to. How to quit drinking or drugging is not a one size fits all recovery. Everyone has to find their own why to do it and...
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