Written by: Ramon Zelaya, LPC-S The addiction treatment field is often rich with broad and diverse themes, often containing hidden meaning waiting to be discovered by the perceptive clinician. One such theme – faith – often intersects with the wisdom touted by the 12-step recovery tradition and emerges frequently throughout the treatment and recovery process. …
For many of us, it has been slightly over two months since social distancing went into effect on a collective scale. Still for some, it has been even longer. With COVID-19 still in the air, it is possible many will still be living socially distant lives, at least to some degree, through the summer season. …
Depending on where you are in the world, the approach of summer can mean a variety of things. For those who live in climates with harsh, long winters when the sun is virtually non-existent, summer is a time to shed the layers and enjoy the rays that will soon be hidden for months on end. …
As mental health writer Melody Beattie puts it, “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more. [It] makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” If you read TPN.Health’s last post on gratitude, you might be thinking, “Well that’s great that …
It is a condition of being human to have needs and navigate ways of getting those needs met. In doing so, we come up against the senses of “not enough” and maybe even “too much,” and we figure out how to live in those spaces or create new ones. It is also a human given …
Amidst the many considerations of these “stay-at-home” times, it is possible that many folks are considering their relationship to food prep and cooking differently. As access to restaurants is limited, people are opting more often to create meals using their own tools and processes rather than getting their sustenance ready-made from an outside source (evidenced …