What are Holiday Blues and How To Help Someone Beat Them

Holidays bring merriment to lives, but this saying isn’t true for everybody. For some people, holidays come associated with unrealistic expectations, financial pressure, commercialism, and so much more. These cause stress and anxiety in any individual. We’re more or less acquainted with the term “Holiday Blues.” It occurs more during Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s.

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Samantha Penn
Maintaining Recovery During the Holidays and Preventing Relapse

Holidays bring joy and merriment. This sentence is valid for a majority of the population. Yet, holidays can bring anxiety and stress as well, especially for those who are in the early recovery stages.A person with a previous substance use disorder or addiction to alcohol will find many triggers around them during the festivities. Holidays affect recovering individuals the most since there’s no restriction to drinking and partying during this time. Maintaining sobriety and preventing relapse is the hardest in the holiday season. However, there’re ways to maintain recovery in this time.

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Samantha Penn
Next Level Recovery Associates: A Team of Professionals with Remarkable Service

As human beings, we are flawed and imperfect. We get diseases and disorders and sometimes we recover naturally, while some cases require us to seek professional help. Substance-abuse disorder, unhealthy family dynamics, and feelings of unfulfillment are just some of the problems that our services address. At Next Level Recovery Associates, our mission is to fill the gaps in the treatment process with expertise and passion and help others in their needs to become the best version of themselves.

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Samantha Penn
Language of Addiction: How the words we use affect the person we see

In life, it is often not what we say but how we say it. This rings especially true for those who’ve dealt with the disease of addiction (or more formally known as Substance Use Disorders).

The words we use to describe someone that is affected by alcoholism, addiction, opioid use disorders, etc… can have a profound effect on the afflicted person’s self-esteem, confidence, and even their willingness to get help.

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Samantha Penn
Being a Sober Mom

Sober Moms….This one’s for you!

Any mother would agree that being a mom is no easy task! Being a mom AND sober adds a whole other layer to that difficultly.

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Samantha Penn