Texas Addiction Recovery Blog
Finding Happiness
Happy. We all want to be happy, but how many of us truly are? Maybe we’re setting the wrong goals. Maybe we should appreciate happiness when we have it and acknowledge that it’s impossible to be happy 100% of the time. Expecting to be happy all of the time is setting...
Finding Success After Rehab
Success means many things to many people. For people dealing with drug and alcohol problems, success might be a painful word. Drug and alcohol abuse can prevent people from achieving their definitions of success. If people consider success to be making lots of money...
Elvis Didn’t Have to Die
Today marks the thirty-ninth anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death. Elvis was only forty-two when he died, so he would’ve been eighty-one years old. Instead of reaching the age of a senior citizen, though, Elvis died in the prime of his life. Who knows what he would...
Thinking Makes It So
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so,” said Hamlet in the play of the same name. This a good quote for people recovering from drug or alcohol abuse. How we view things can have such an impact on our recovery and how we face our lives in...
Using Me Time to Heal
You often hear of people taking me time. While it might sound like a trendy catchphrase, it can be a great way to recharge a person’s batteries. It can be especially useful during recovery. As many people learn, healing doesn’t just occur during rehab. Healing...
Cosigning Our Problems
We don’t need anyone to cosign our BS. That’s a great expression that’s used in recovery circles. This phrase means that we don’t need anyone to encourage our lies, bad behavior, or other negative actions—our BS. If we’re actively suffering from drug or alcohol abuse,...
Is Drug Use Acceptable?
Is it acceptable to use drugs? It seems like it depends on who you ask. Recreational drug use is very popular. Many areas of the United States, from New Hampshire to Florida to Michigan to Alaska, and all parts in between, are struggling with high levels of drug...
Fear and Addiction
Yesterday, we talked about fears that people have about their addictions and about their lives. Addiction can also create fear in others. Addiction creates so many scary things. If people have relatives and friends struggling with drug or alcohol abuse, they worry...
Confronting and Embracing Our Fears
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” said Franklin D. Roosevelt famously. But the truth is, most of us are afraid of something, or afraid of a lot of somethings. This fear might drive us to abuse drugs or alcohol. Substance use disorder also can create new...
Progress, Not Perfection
Some former drug and alcohol abusers have adopted the motto “Progress, not perfection.” This phrase reminds me of one of my favorite quotations, “Perfect is the enemy of good,” a quotation by the writer and philosopher Voltaire. These expressions are good reminders to...
