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Welcome to the Safe Harbor Recovery Center blog! Our blog offers articles and resources for individuals and families affected by substance abuse issues and addiction to alcohol and drugs.
A Guide to Parenting While in Recovery
Once you've completed residential treatment, it's time to focus on strengthening your relationship with your child. Parenting while in recovery is challenging, but many of the skills you learned during your time at Safe Harbor Recovery Center in Portsmouth, Virginia...
What to Expect During the First Year of Recovery
As the new year approaches, it is common for people to reflect on the past year and assess their goals for the year ahead. If you’re new to recovery, you might find goal-setting difficult. What can and should you expect from your new life? What will your first year of...
Setting Goals in Addiction Recovery
The New Year is quickly approaching, and it is estimated that nearly half of all adults make at least one resolution to implement on January 1. Unfortunately, it has become a cliché to make and then fail to complete such goals. For a person in recovery, goals may be...
How to Stay Sober During the Holidays
The Holiday Struggle When Sarah Hepola decided to stop drinking, she struggled around the holidays. As she told NPR, “In those first shaky months, I would stand at the party, piling my plate with cheese cubes and wondering what to say if someone asked why I wasn’t...
How Gratitude Supports Long-Term Recovery
At this time of year, it is not uncommon for loved ones to gather around the table and express gratitude for things they’ve experienced in the past 12 months. While this tradition might seem corny or quaint, gratitude has been found to support long-term recovery....
Restoring Trust With a Loved One After Recovery
Addiction can create a lot of damage. Not only can substance use cause health issues, financial problems, and legal troubles, but it can also erase the trust a person shared with their family and friends. If you are in recovery, how can you begin to rebuild trust with...
Understanding Codependency
It’s no secret to people who’ve grown up in a home where parents have abused alcohol or other substances: everyone in a family affected by addiction can develop unhealthy coping strategies. People who enter relationships with an addicted person have a tendency to be...
Nutritional Deficiencies Associated with Alcoholism
The Many Negative Effects of Alcohol Alcohol is a substance that can have a permanent, detrimental impact on the people who become addicted to it. Not only can it damage relationships, reputations, and careers, but it can also create permanent havoc in the bodies of...
The Link Between Trauma and Substance Abuse
To enter Family Treatment Court, where I was the site coordinator, applicants were required to meet with me to complete a packet of questions about the nature and chronology of their substance abuse, their treatment to date, and also their family history. These...
Ways to Help Someone With an Addiction to Prescription Drugs
The National Institute on Drug Abuse has estimated that, as of 2017, as many as 18 million Americans have misused prescription drugs in the past year. With such high numbers, it should not be surprising if many people discover that someone they love has abused a...
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