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3 Benefits of Practicing Mindfulness Why Mindfulness? Everyone at one point or another feels weighed down with negative thoughts and internal or external stressors in our day-to-day lives. However, the practice of mindfulness aims to provide an opportunity to put our minds at ease and focus on being in the

Sticking to Your Recovery Resolutions Everyone looks forward to the New Year for many reasons – good food, quality time with friends and family – but many of us also eagerly await the holiday as an exciting way to hit reset on our lives and start fresh with a clean

Stay Strong in Your Recovery During the Holidays The holiday season presents particular challenges to those suffering from substance use disorder. While it would be ideal for the holidays to be a time of unfettered enjoyment, relaxation, and downtime from the work and stresses of life, it is not always

What happens when I relapse? 5 Signs to look for For preventing a relapse, it is important to recognize warning signs before the actual relapse happens. Here are five signs to look for that may help you prevent a relapse: You get complacent. Sometimes when recovery is going well, you

Families Need Recovery, Too Substance Use Disorder affects one’s body, mind, and soul—but the damage doesn’t end there. Families and friends also suffer as their loved one’s dependency progresses, stress builds, and communication starts to break down. Families need to recover from the disease, too. It is not uncommon for

4 Healthy Habits To Help You Stay Clean & Sober A big part of recovery is breaking the old habits that reinforced addiction and replacing them with healthy habits that support recovery. Some aspects of breaking these “bad habits” can be incredibly emotionally difficult, such as cutting ties with old

What’s Grief Got To Do With It? From Kelly Scaggs, Clinical Director at Fellowship Hall What does grief have to do with addiction? I would venture to say a lot more than most people think. Grief can be a huge relapse risk, especially when it goes unaddressed. At Fellowship Hall

“I got sober in 2001 – I look at it as a JV version of what the problem is. I got sober for a couple of years… then I started drinking again every day…it is important for me to be sober now… I wasn’t who I thought I was. It

When the Doctor Is In… Treatment: When Helpers Need Help What happens when those who treat, support, heal, or educate need treatment, support, healing, and education of their own? This is a question that many professionals are negotiating when they enter treatment for their own experience of addiction disease. As

6 Strategies to Avoid Relapse Triggers Protecting your recovery at all costs must be emphasized at every stage of recovery.  Because relapse starts well before a person picks up a drink or a drug, it is essential to understand what your relapse triggers are. You may ask, “What the heck

90 Meetings in 90 Days…It’s not just for newcomers! By Caroline Tisdale, Fellowship Hall Counselor If you’ve recently completed treatment, your counselor probably suggested you attend 90 meetings (AA or NA) in 90 days – and you probably wondered, “do I really need to go to a meeting every single

We Are Family: Loving a Person with Substance Use Disorder   How did we get here? Many of us know the feeling of anxiety that we get when we are concerned about a loved one’s substance use. That feeling of fear often leads us to try to manage, “help”, or

Addiction doesn’t discriminate. Jamie Lee Curtis shares her recovery story. About Fellowship Hall Fellowship Hall is a 99-bed, private, not-for-profit alcohol and drug treatment center located on 120 tranquil acres in Greensboro, N.C. We provide treatment and evidence-based programs built upon the Twelve-Step model of recovery. We have been accredited

Expect a Miracle. Recovery delivers. Every August, Fellowship Hall hosts a conference to celebrate recovery with hundreds of alumni from our treatment programs and their recovery allies, family members and friends who support their dedication and work to remain in long-term recovery. This year, Mark D serves as the conference

8 Reasons Socializing Sober is Better By Kelly Fitzgerald  from www.thefix.com  When you’re used to taking shots before any social interaction, it feels weird when you show up anywhere sober. But I learned that it’s actually better this way. Let’s face it, socializing is something that is historically associated with