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Is it Better to Live a Sober Life?

Transitioning back into normal life after completing an addiction recovery program can be challenging. In a recovery program, your environment is structured and you are surrounded by people who have the same goal in mind. It can be utterly shocking to return home with mounting responsibilities and potential triggers. Sober living homes are substance-free residences…

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How to Pick the Best Sober Living House in Massachusetts

The missing piece to achieving a recovery journey can sometimes be deciding on the right place to live if you are battling a substance use disorder. This is where Rockland Recovery’s sober living homes in Massachusetts can help you out with what you are missing. If you or someone you care about might benefit from…

Your Guide to a Sober Holiday

Your Guide to a Sober Holiday

For the majority of individuals in recovery, the holidays are a challenging point in their recovery. The holidays pose unique struggles and challenges to sobriety, so it can be helpful to have strategies to help prevent a relapse. Opportunities to engage in old, unhealthy behaviors are abundant during the holidays. Due to the general indulgence…

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3 Benefits of Intensive Outpatient Treatment

After realizing that you may be struggling with addiction, the first step to recovery is to enroll in a treatment center. One aspect to consider is the level of assistance in treatment that you may require. At Rockland Recovery, our team wants to help you explore the available rehab programs so that you can find…

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Imagining Recovery

Carl Jung believed that alcoholism was borne of a desire for transcendence, or “thirst for wholeness.” Addicts get high to transcend or overcome a feeling of limitation, whether that be unresolved trauma, a pervasive sense of meaninglessness, or simply the deadening effects of day-to-day life. In almost every case, addiction involves a powerful desire to…

Women Recovered From Alcoholic Addiction

Recovered

In the world of sober living, there are few words that are more telling (and more misunderstood) than recovered. It is a controversial term, never heard in academic or clinical settings, but used almost exclusively in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. In fact, the Big Book does not even use the term recovering. How…