Elite Writes Blog
Reflecting on Life’s Chapters and the Power of Re-Writing the Ending
By: Kara Frahm I have recently moved to a new residence. As anyone knows who moves, it’s never a physically easy challenge. However, that was not my biggest battle during this move. I found myself feeling a weird kind of …
Who wants to grow up and have a Substance Use Disorder?
By Choice Pickins Newstrom, ADC-T It’s not a secret anymore that using alcohol earlier in life increases the chance of developing a substance use disorder in adult life. Key research from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism was …
Follow the Fun
Getting clean around 25 years old, I was holding myself back from enjoying my early recovery. Early on I bought into the belief that my life was “over”. People kept trying to tell me “Actually, your life is just beginning.” …
Attitude of Gratitude
By: Lulu Sveen, LSW In a meditation one morning, I was told “today is the first day that you will experience like this as well as the last day you’ll experience like this”. This couldn’t be more spot on and …
Embracing the Uncomfortable – Finding the Gifts in your Pain
Nobody likes feeling uncomfortable. I think as humans, it is our natural tendency to push the uncomfortable away with a desire to make it quickly disappear. It doesn’t feel good! As people in recovery, we have used substances to cope …
Families are Addicted Too
What do we mean when we say addiction is a family disease? Well, it means that family members play a vital role in maintaining active addiction and just as vitally in preventing and discontinuing it. Yes, families are that powerful! …
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