When a person decides to give up substances and enter recovery, it can feel like they are required to do a lot. In addition to going to treatment, they are often advised to attend therapy, start meds for their mental health, eat healthier, exercise, find a spiritual...
Adequate amounts of good quality sleep are key to sustained recovery. Unfortunately, one of the challenges many people face early in their sobriety is insomnia. At Safe Harbor Recovery Center in Portsmouth, Virginia, we want to give you the knowledge you need to...
Drugs take a toll on how a person’s body processes food, and a person who is experiencing active addiction may not be able to consistently make good choices around food. As a result, half of all people who are starting recovery also have nutritional deficiencies, on...
Accountability is a word that you hear a lot in recovery, so it is important to know what it means and how it applies to you. At Safe Harbor Recovery Center in Portsmouth, Virginia, we want our patients to learn more than the language of recovery, but also the...
Maybe some of your relationships were damaged by active addiction, or maybe you never had the support you needed, even before you started using substances. Either way, you may have looked around one day and realized that most of your interactions were with other...
In general terms, a relapse is when symptoms of a disease return, following a period of remission. When discussing relapse of a physical health condition, like diabetes or asthma, there is usually little or no shame attached to the term. When talking about addiction,...
