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How to Stay Sober After Treatment
Initially making the decision to receive substance abuse treatment may seem like the hardest part of your recovery journey, however the treatment professionals at Awakening’s for Women know the transition back to your normal life can be just as challenging. In your recovery, it’s essential that you feel prepared to head back into the world, […]
How to Celebrate a Sober Valentine’s Day
When you are newly sober, everything can seem overwhelming and challenging to say the least. Especially when it involves the holidays, most former addicts group those days together with over-indulging: whether it be with alcohol, drugs, or something else. In order to have a great February 14th outside of your halfway house in Florida, make […]
Four Tricks for Sober Entertaining
It is generally not until you have been in a Florida sober living home that you realize how much entertaining revolves around alcohol. With the upcoming holiday season, having a party without alcohol may prove to be challenging. Since there will not be any spiked eggnog on the menu this year, these four tricks for […]
How to Stay Sober in College and Still Have Fun
For most teens leaving home to go to college, they dream of all the parties they will be going to. For others, they worry about how to avoid parties and the temptations that come along with it. Already having stayed at a Florida sober living home as a young person can seem isolating when trying […]
Why Sober People Make Great Holiday Party Guests
Holiday season is just around the corner, and with it a whole slew of holiday parties. For your old self, this probably meant downing glass after glass of spiked egg nog and causing a scene before dessert was even served. But that was then, and this is now. Now that you have gotten help for […]
Signs That You Should Have Gotten Sober a Long Time Ago
Once upon a time, your life was in complete disarray, you were becoming more and more estranged from your loved ones, and you could not find the light at the end of the tunnel. However, after your stay at a halfway house in Florida, all of that has changed. Honestly, who can say that they […]
How to Get Relationship Advice While in Recovery
For those in recovery from addiction, many are probably wondering to themselves where to start when it comes to getting relationship advice post a life of substance abuse. Not only that, but how do you even date sober? Most people who are new in recovery may have never even dated sober, and as a result, […]
Inside The Next Happy
What better time to delve into a new book other than when you are delving into being a new you? While focusing on sobriety after you have completed treatment is never an easy feat, sometimes reading about someone else’s journey and the lessons they learned before you, can act as a reminder of why you […]
Navigating Sober Dating
Navigating the tumultuous world of dating proves challenging enough, without having to worry about maintaining your sobriety on top of it. Take it from James, a 33-year-old Los Angeles photographer who has been sober for eight years. When he first re-entered the dating world, “I spent five years dating messed up speed freaks…I guess I […]