5 Ways Sea Change Will Give You a New Experience
#1 Community Community plays a crucial role here. At Sea Change, we believe that some of the most important results of one’s time here are the friends one makes. Leaving addiction treatment with a network of sober supporters with shared experience can help sustain recovery for a lifetime. #2 Holistic Therapy Rather than focusing solely […]
10 Tips to Get Through the Holiday Season Sober
Coming home for he holidays sober for the first time can be a difficult experience. It’s the most wonderful time of the year – or so it may seem. The holidays bring together family and distant relatives along with a whole host of other stress factors that can leave you feeling anxious, insecure, resentful or […]
Ride the Wave of recovery in los angeles
Mindfulness is a huge part of recovery. In fact, one of the twelve steps teaches recovering addicts and alcoholics that prayer and meditation must be practiced in order to treat their disease. Meditation can take many forms. Its not necessarily sitting cross-legged, eyes closed at an altar with burning incense. It can take the form […]
Bored to Death with Addiction Recovery in Los Angeles
For most people, boredom is a passing, nearly trivial feeling that lifts as soon as their number is called, their chore is completed, or their train arrives. But, boredom has a darker side: easily bored people are at higher risk for depression, anxiety, eating disorders, hostility, anger, and yes, addiction. It’s hard to imagine anyone […]
Better Than Dope: Natural Highs Instead of Drugs
Why does pleasure exist? It’s the carrot dangled by the body to get us to do the things we need in order to survive and prosper. It’s what helps us reach survival goals and reproduce. But experiencing and appreciating pleasure is also necessary for true happiness and contentment. We’re not ascetics, living our lives like […]
Chaos in recovery is Good For You
Logan Gelbrich is a busy man. As the owner of the highly regarded Deuce Gym in Venice Beach, you’d think his days would already be filled to the brim. But between traveling the world with the CrossFit Strongman Seminar and slinging top-of-the-line supplements with ORIGINAL Nutritionals, he’s also writing his first book. I sat down […]
Facing Your Fears To Overcome Addiction In Los Angeles
Always do what you are afraid to do. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Fear a tricky human emotion. It can paralyze. It can prevent you from attaining your dreams. It can keep you small. But fear can be your friend in just the right doses. My friend explained to me how he recently harnessed his fear to […]
Getting Sober In Los Angeles: Worth The Wait
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a psychology professor at Stanford University named Walter Mischel was frustrated with his inability to quit his three-pack-a-day smoking habit and wanted to study the concept of delayed gratification. Mischel gathered children aged four-to-six in a room, free of any distractions, and placed a single marshmallow on the […]
Social Acceptability vs. Recovery
Everyone has ups and downs. For alcoholics and addicts, these ups and downs are taken to the extreme, in the worst cases leading to manias or deep, deep depressions. It’s not uncommon for newly sober people to look, well, a little rough. In our addictions we pick our faces, lose large amounts of weight, and […]
Grappling With Depression as an Addict
When the first UFC event was held in 1993, many viewed it as a centuries-in-the-making experiment, an attempt to answer to the perennial question: what is the best method of fighting? A few hours into the event, the answer was clear—and it wasn’t kung fu, muay thai, or karate. Royce Gracie, a relatively unknown practitioner […]