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Quiz: Can You Spot A Toxic Friendship?

Best friends are supposed to be supportive. But even the strongest friendships can turn sour.

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Fear Of Finances Be Gone!

For most of my life I had the dread disease of FOF, which simply stated is Fear Of Finances. When I entered DA, one of the things I related to immediately was all the talk about vagueness around money. I never knew how much money was really in my bank account. I was always shocked when taxes came...

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The 5 Phases Of Compulsive Spending

The 5 phases of compulsive spending take you through the highs of an actual addiction. And if you’re a compulsive spender, you’re not alone on this rollercoaster ride. The 5 phases of compulsive spending are what make it so compelling. It’s not just one moment. It’s the whole process. Donald W. Black, author of A Review of...

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Growing Up In Recovery After You Get Sober

If you stick around recovery groups for a while, you’ll eventually hear someone talk about growing up in recovery. That’s my story. When this all began, I simply needed to get sober and stay sober. What I didn’t realize was that I came into recovery with very few skills that would be helpful for a...

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How I Got Financial Recovery

Why would anyone need financial recovery? Substance use was only part of it. I traveled the road from privileged to pampered to spoiled to entitled to enabled to troubled to difficult to enraged to destructive to nervous breakdown. Some time my 30s, I found myself sober but messy, fragile and broke. I’d gone through all...

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What Is Compulsive Spending

Compulsive spending is not what happens when people indulge for occasions like birthdays, Christmas or other holidays. Problem spending is something that occurs year round. Relentless, buying with no real need or purpose is the reality. If you recognize yourself as someone who “needs” to shop, you are are not alone. In fact, studies find that...

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Money Worries? Help Is On The Way

Do you have money worries no matter how much you earn, or how good your life seems? Do you keep wondering why you just can’t get out of debt? Do your money worries drive you to drink or to take substances to ease the pain? Does despair over debt cause you or someone you love...

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List: 5 Fun Lines to Help End a Toxic Friendship

Here are 5 lines to help you gather the courage to get rid of your frenemy.

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Toxic Relationship Warning Signs or Universal Monster Movie?

Can you tell the difference between a horror movie and the warning signs of a toxic relationship? Maybe they aren't too different.

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9 Psychological Tricks Our Brain Is Constantly Playing on Us That Put Us in Awkward Situations

Cognitive bias describes the typical mistakes we make while thinking. These mistakes can convince us of things that don’t really exist. If you know about these popular mistakes, it will be easier for you to predict situations that will happen to you and you can also stay safe from the tricks that marketers and salesmen use. Their strategies are also based on these psychological...

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