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Which Attachment Styles Are More Prone to Addiction
Recognising your attachment style enables you to cultivate healthy relationships and address any underlying issues that may arise from your early attachment experiences, such as substance abuse and other addictive tendencies.

Walking Together: How to Support a Loved One in Recovery
Supporting a loved one in recovery can be challenging, to say the least. But it’s also highly rewarding. It takes understanding, patience, and a lot of willingness to learn about the complexities of addiction and recovery.

Stay Ahead of Relapse: Five Warning Signs to Watch For
Recognizing the warning signs of relapse is vital for staying on the path to recovery. Addiction recovery is not simply about avoiding the pitfalls; it’s more about creating a lifestyle that supports wellness and resilience.

Five Ways to Strengthen Your Nervous System
Understanding how to strengthen your nervous system is crucial for optimum health and well-being, but how do we do this in a world full of pressures, stress, and unforeseen tragedy or crisis?

The Six Common Family Roles in an Addicted Household
In their efforts to maintain stability or manage stress, many family members adopt dysfunctional and co-dependent coping mechanisms and behavioural patterns, which can exacerbate the situation.

The Structure of EMDR Therapy: A guide for those considering trauma treatment
Although an effective treatment for trauma disorders, EMDR can also help treat the symptoms of other mental health conditions, such as depression, anxiety, personality disorders, dissociative conditions, and more.Â

Decoding Chronic Pain: Understanding the Complexities of Persistent Discomfort
Pain has a way of depleting our energy, leaving us feeling miserable and robbing us of any joy and patience until our bodies begin to heal, and then life goes back to feeling the way it once did.

The Five Powerful Benefits of EMDR Therapy
Developed by Francine Shapiro in 1987, EMDR is a psychotherapy treatment designed to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories and experiences. The goal of EMDR is to relieve an individual’s emotional distress, helping them to reconstruct negative beliefs and introjects, as well as reduce physiological symptoms.

Seven Top Tips for Dating Someone in Recovery
If you’re dating or considering dating someone in recovery, it’s important to remember that recovery is a life-long process requiring diligence, hard work, and humility. While the journey can be difficult, living a healthy, sober life is highly rewarding.