Tag: life in recovery

Food During Recovery: What Helps Vs. What Hurts

March 21, 2019 Avalon Malibu Food and Nutrition Healthy Living

Have you ever heard of the phrase, “You are what you eat?” There’s a lot of truth to this because the nutrients (or lack thereof) that we get from various foods causes our body to react in different ways. Foods… Read More ›

How to Maintain Emotional Sobriety in Recovery

March 20, 2019 Avalon Malibu Recovery Mental Health

Even after we’ve gone through detox and rid our body of the toxins that were acquired from active addiction, we have to continue the restorative process of our mind, body and spirit. From the time when our addiction developed, we’ve… Read More ›

Amphetamines: Types, Uses and Dangers

March 19, 2019 Avalon Malibu Prescription Drugs

Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, and they essentially speed up messages sent through pathways in the brain and body. Most often, amphetamines are prescribed to treat conditions like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or narcolepsy, and it’s also known by nicknames… Read More ›

Changing the Self Narrative From “Addict” to “A Person in Recovery”

March 13, 2019 Avalon Malibu Recovery Addiction

When we walk into addiction recovery, there’s already a notion that we hold of ourselves. A self-perception – and it’s this perception that weighs heavily on the way we view ourselves, others, and how we relate to society as a… Read More ›

Physical Fitness: Warding Off Symptoms of Mental Illness in Recovery

March 11, 2019 Avalon Malibu Healthy Living Mental Health

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) emphasizes that many people with addiction have a comorbid disorder with mental illness; about half of people who experience a mental illness also experience a substance use disorder (SUD) at some point in… Read More ›