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withdrawal symptoms, treatment and timeline
23 Aug 2021

Benzodiazepine Withdrawal: Symptoms, Treatment and Timeline

Medications such as benzodiazepines can be prescribed as an effective way to treat certain health conditions. When those medications themselves become a threat to an individual’s health, it is time to learn how to safely stop their use. The symptoms, treatment and timeline are important factors in understanding how...

when you stop enabling
18 Aug 2021

What Happens When You Stop Enabling an Addict?

When your loved one is hurting, you naturally want to help them. When they are addicted to drugs or alcohol, you want to keep them from suffering as much as possible. However, you may actually be doing your loved one more harm than good when you enable their behavior....

Sunday Sermon: The Rich Young Man
15 Aug 2021

Sunday Sermon: Facing the Past

Are you clouded with guilt and shame because of something you've done in the past? Are you stuck in anger, hurt or resentment? In recovery, we don't want to erase these feelings, but we also can't allow them to obscure our present moment. We must deal with these feelings...

indoor winter activities
8 Aug 2021

Sunday Sermon: Keeping a Beginner’s Mind

It's important to remain child- like in our ability to take in new information and be excited about new things. Also, it's important to not have too concrete of an understanding of the world and the way it ought to be or the way we ought to be.

covid long haulers prescribed opioids
6 Aug 2021

Experts Warn Against Dangers of Opioids for COVID Long Haulers

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. In recent months, COVID has drawn another large-scale health crisis into the pile of pandemic-generated problems. The second decade of the twenty-first century had already familiarized most people with the “opioid epidemic”—a sharp climb in opioid...

addiction is a disease
1 Aug 2021

Sunday Sermon: Facing Fear

Fear and shame causes a block to our spirituality. Shame, in its simplest terms according to researcher Brene Brown, is the fear of disconnection. It's the fear that something about me is bad or wrong in some way that if other people know it they won't want to connect...

women walking on serenity trail
25 Jul 2021

Sunday Sermon: Letting Go of Attachments

The first noble truth is life involves suffering. The second noble truth is that suffering is caused by the degree of our attachments. The third noble truth is that I can reduce my suffering by letting go of my attachments. If I don't need to have that car or...

compulsive behaviors in recovery
20 Jul 2021

Compulsive Behaviors in Recovery

Individuals who have overcome a substance use disorder should be incredibly proud of their accomplishments. However, this doesn’t mean they are out of the woods yet. Research shows that in rare cases, it is possible for people to pick up compulsive behaviors in recovery. These actions may seem healthy...

delta 8 thc
14 Jul 2021

Is Delta 8 THC Safe?

Every few years, a newly legal substance will become a topic of national conversation. Drugs billed as “herbal alternatives,” like K2, Spice, kratom and Salvia Divinorum, are all well known by the general public. However, just because these substances are legal (for now) does not mean they are safe....

why is fentanyl so addictive
7 Jul 2021

Why is Fentanyl So Addictive?

Fentanyl is a rising epidemic in Tennessee – this highly addictive drug is the leading cause of overdose deaths in our state. Just yesterday, a Nashville woman was arrested for murder after supplying a man with a fatal dose of fentanyl-laced heroin. What exactly makes fentanyl so dangerous, and...

The Serenity Prayer
4 Jul 2021

Sunday Sermon: The Serenity Prayer

Michelle breaks down the Serenity Prayer. She says for many patients, the hardest part for them is the past. The Serenity Prayer helps us to accept the things we cannot change, and the past is one of those things.