Relapse Is Not a Moral Failure: It Is a Characteristic of the Illness
Relapse Is Not a Moral Failure: It Is a Characteristic of the Illness If you have relapsed, this is the first thing I want you to know: relapse does not mean you have failed at recovery. It means you have a disease that has relapse as one of its characteristics. That is a clinical fact, […]
Relapse Begins Long Before You Pick Up: Understanding the RELAPSE Acronym
Relapse Begins Long Before You Pick Up: Understanding the RELAPSE Acronym One of the most important things I have learned in 25 years of working with people in addiction and eating disorder recovery — and in my own recovery — is this: picking up the drink, the drug, or returning to the eating disorder behaviour […]
Out of Rehab: What the First Year Clean Actually Requires
Out of Rehab: What the First Year Clean Actually Requires Leaving treatment is not the end of anything. It is the beginning of the real work — and for many people, it is the hardest part of the journey. The structure is gone. The peers from the clinic are scattered. The world outside is exactly […]