Mental Health

Why Does Alcohol Recovery Make You Sleep Worse Before It Gets Better? You quit drinking and expected to finally get a good night’s sleep. Instead, you’re lying awake at 2 a.m., heart racing, brain buzzing, and on the nights you do sleep, you’re jolted awake by dreams so vivid they leave you shaken. What’s happening?

“I Would Never Be Sitting Here With You” -Bradley Cooper   In the public discourse surrounding addiction, recovery is often framed as an act of restriction, a necessary sacrifice where an individual gives up their primary coping mechanism to survive. However, recent comments by actor Bradley Cooper regarding his sobriety challenge this reductive narrative, reframing

I believe that getting sober is, like, for a human experience, it’s the most impactful thing that a, a human soul can happen in a lifetime.   How Addiction Narrows Choice and Increases Mortality for Men For many men facing the prospect of treatment, sobriety feels like a funeral. There is a pervasive cultural stigma

From the Founder: Real Conversations About Recovery “I’ve seen tons of people in long-term recovery that have ended up either hurting themselves, killing themselves, or destroying their life, or drinking again. Not because they were drinking, but because they had self-defeating behaviors that they’ve had since childhood that didn’t go away when they got sober.”