Although some recovering addicts might not see the connection between their recovery and their intimate relationship, the two are closely connected.
The reasons for this are three-fold. First, a significant part of recovery is the exploration and change of your thinking patterns. These thinking patterns will have an impact on your relationships.
In some relationships, intimacy and connection can start to fade as time goes on. Intimacy and connection are both very important when it comes to a relationship. It is important that both people in the relationship work to make sure that intimacy and connection stay in the relationship. Cherilynn Veland, a contributor writer for Psych Central has 7 ways to make sure the relationship always has intimacy and connection:
Most people live a life full of stress, and have no clue exactly how stressed they may be. Stress not only affects your body, but it can also affect the people you are around. Other people can sense when your are stressed. Because stress can have negative affects on the body it is important to get rid of it as soon as possible.
Everyone has experienced some form of stress in their lifetime. The stress could have come from a project that is due in school, or something that is going on in the work place. Unfortunately, most people have a lot of stress in their life. Long-term stress can have effects on your body so it's important to learn how to manage the stress in our lives. The following are the effects that long-term stress can have on our bodies:
After being in a relationship for a couple years, most people can become lazy in their relationships. Either partner may not try to be as involved as they were when the relationship first started. John Amodeo, a contributor writer for Psych Central has 6 tips to help nurture a relationship when either partner starts being "lazy" within the relationship:
If you grew up in a family with addiction or with some sort of family dysfunction, then likely the boundaries among family members were either too close or enmeshed or they were too distant or detached.
What's difficult is that these are the types of boundaries that we carry with us into adulthood and end up having the same kind of relationships with our spouses and children. However, this doesn't always have to be the case. The benefit of participating in marital counseling or other forms of psychological therapy is learning about how to have healthy boundaries with those that we are in relationship with.
There are some people in this world that always seem like they are happy all the time. They always have a positive outlook on life even when things may not be on the bright side. These people have a few things in common. Maybe by adding these habits to your life you can become one of those positive people.
As the years go by, many different aspects of our lives change. These aspects can range from technology, to medical care, to new kinds of equipment in a gym. Another thing that has been changing over the years is addiction treatment. The way addiction is treated has changed drastically over the years. David Sack M.D., a contributor writer for Psychology Today has 4 predictions for future treatments for addiction.
Many people turn to drugs and alcohol when life gets a little on the hard. A lot of people tend to think that drugs and alcohol are the answers to our problems. However that is not the case. In most cases the two can make some problems even worse. Stan Popovich, a nationally known author has provided 6 reason why drugs and alcohol are not the answers to our problems:
If you live a life that has a lot of stress, it's not easy. Stress can lead to a lot of other issues in your life and it can also make life a little harder. If there is a lot of stress in your life it is important to make sure that it is under control. PsychCentral has 20 tips to help make sure your stress is under control. Below are some of the tips: