10 Daily Habits to Strengthen Sobriety and Build a Healthier Life
Building healthy habits and planning productive daily routines are the cornerstones of recovery from addiction. When you plan your day and fill your time with activities and behaviors that benefit your body, mind, and soul, you’ll find it easier...
Harnessing Mindfulness: A Pathway to Addiction Recovery
In 1982, Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Stress Reduction Clinic, based out of UMass Medical Center, was pioneering research into the burgeoning field of mindfulness and its impact on recovery. A decade later, in 1992, John Teasdale and Zindel Segal, together...
Identifying and Managing Triggers: Your Guide to Preventing Relapse
Breaking free from addiction isn’t as easy as waving a magic wand, and you’re cured. Addiction is a chronic condition, meaning it will follow you for the rest of your days. While you can get clean and sober in...
Holistic Approaches to Addiction Recovery: Mindfulness, Yoga, and Wellness
When you are an addict trying to get clean, the focus is on breaking the torturous cycle of addiction rampaging through your mind every second of the day. A medical detox takes care of the physical hold drugs or...
Relapse Prevention Strategies for Long-Term Sobriety
Addiction to substances is a “chronic” disease. That means it will trail you for the rest of your life, and you’ll never truly rid yourself of the affliction. That said, it’s possible to manage your condition. Relapse is always...
Family Therapy for Addiction Recovery
Are you one of the estimated 21 million American families with a family member suffering from Substance Use Disorder, or AUD? Maybe your teen daughter is hanging out with new people, and you think that she might be using...
Individual Therapy: A Path to Self-Discovery
Addiction to drugs and alcohol does more than wipe out your physical health. It takes a toll on your mind, instilling behaviors in you that you would never have dreamt of incorporating into your life when you were sober....
The Benefits of Group Therapy in Substance Abuse Treatment
We believe at Carrara that addiction is best confronted through holistic therapy treatment. Part of this strategy involves receiving one-on-one individualized therapy in your suite, where you reveal your deepest traumas and the thoughts you feel you can never...
The Role of Therapy and Support in Addiction Recovery
When you arrive at Carrara treatment centers, the first stage of your recovery plan is a medical detox. When your mind is finally free of the urge to use drugs or alcohol, or both, you’ll be thinking clearly, and...
The Detox Process: What to Expect and How to Prepare
Drugs and alcohol disrupt our body chemistry and is misused or abused, they have the potential to cause addiction. These devilish chemicals take hold of your physiological and psychological processes, creating dependence that turns into a vicious cycle of...
