Tag: addiction recovery

I can remember walking out of the doors of Brighton Center for Recovery just having finished an inpatient stay. Here I was, day one of

Walking away from drug or alcohol addiction has a long list of challenges. Once the substance is removed from the equation, most of us realize

My name is Robin Bright…I am a recovered alcoholic and addict. I am in early recovery. I have 128 days clean and sober. Today is

My name is Matthew Cohen. I am a person in long term recovery…and I refuse to be anonymous. But why? Why, when it seems to

“I’m so fat now.” “I hate when people look at my photos in recovery and tell me I look healthy. That’s just a nice way

For a long time I was not able to be honest with myself. I didn’t even really know who I was. Even before substance abuse

“Remember when I was first learning to drive? The day I became a better driver was when you told me to drive like I was

Definition of relapse: To fall back or revert to a former state, to regress after a period of recovery, to return to unproductive ways of