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What is IOP Treatment?
When searching for help for an addiction, you may have come across the term “IOP.” “IOP” stands for “Intensive Outpatient Program.” An IOP is a treatment program for addiction where the individual receiving treatment stays at home. Generally speaking, IOPs ask that...
Summer Activities for Those Working on Sobriety
Summer recovery can be difficult. A lot of summer activities include alcohol, and when you’re struggling to keep sober, it’s not the best idea to be around such activities. Here’s a list of activities you can engage in this summer – drug and alcohol...
Do Drug and Alcohol Abuse Go Up in the Summer?
Summertime is a time for being outside, heading to barbeques, and heading to bodies of water. Is there a correlation between summer activities and an increase in the rate of alcohol and drug abuse? It seems that there is a correlation. A lot of summer...
The Importance of Self-Care for Family Members of Those in Recovery
Having a family member in recovery can take its toll on an individual as well as the entire family. It is important to engage in self-care while supporting the family member battling addiction or alcoholism. Playing caretaker to another person can be...
Families in Recovery
Those working on the journey to sobriety are not just lone wolves. Most individuals trying to get clean or sober are members of family networks. When someone in a family has a problem with addiction, it affects the whole family dynamic. That’s why it’s so...
Step 12: Carrying the Message to Others
We are now at the end of our journey through the 12 Steps, but not at the end of our journey to recovery. For working the 12 Steps means that we must be continually aware of the principles we have discovered, and we must bring those principles to others in need of...
Step 11: Committing to a Spiritual Purpose
We’ve come a long way in our journey through the 12 Steps, but we still have a little way to go. As we continue to make a personal inventory and correct our wrongs when they happen, it’s also important that we begin to look forward. The traditional framing of Step...
Step 10: Continuing to Take Personal Inventory
Our work is not done yet. In order to continue our path to recovery, we must first be vigilant to continue the hard work we've already done. The traditional Twelve Steps describes Step 10 as: "Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly...
Step 9: Making Amends
Once we’ve created our list of those needing our apologies, it's time to go out and apologize to them and mend the broken relationships as best as we can. The traditional wording of Step Nine is: "Made direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when...
Step 8: Creating an Amends List
Step Eight of the Twelve Steps involves making a list of all those who were harmed by our addictions. The traditional wording of Step Eight is: “Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.” The Alternative 12 Steps...
Step 7: Embracing Humility
Step Seven in the Twelve Steps asks us to embrace humility and remove our shortcomings. In the traditional wording, Step Seven reads: “Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.” In the Alternative Twelve Steps: A Secular Guide to Recovery, step seven reads:...
Step 6: Ready and Willing to Change Ourselves
Step six is one of the more opaque steps in a Twelve-Step program. Step Six as originally written says: “We are entirely ready to have God remove these defects of character. In The Alternative Twelve Steps, step six says: “Be entirely ready to acknowledge our...
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