http://blog.usdrugrehabcenters.com Help is available now - 1 (866) 449-1490 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:34:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sometimes things just get stuck.  Arguments get repeated over and over.  Time is wasted justifying our actions in the past.  Relationships once they are damaged can take a very long time to heal.  There is one thing; however that may speed up this process.  It involves one person simply taking ... http://blog.usdrugrehabcenters.com/2008-03-28/be-a-hero-in-drug-rehab/ Learning to say no can be a difficult journey.  In addiction and drug rehab it is a vitally important one.  Drug and alcohol refusal skills are something that might want to be practiced each and every day you are in rehab.  Would it not be wonderful if by the time ... http://blog.usdrugrehabcenters.com/2008-03-26/learning-to-say-no-takes-practice-in-drug-rehab/ Many of us have life in reverse.  We spend far too long deciding what to do.  Followed by far to little montoring after the decision.  Nobody has a crystal ball.  Nobody can predict the future.  At the very best maybe you can be right 60% of the time, but for ... http://blog.usdrugrehabcenters.com/2008-03-22/making-decisions-and-monitoring-in-drug-rehab/ When things do not turn out how we would like, often we want to remove our own responsibility in the situation.  When asked why something went wrong we respond in this manner.  I don’t know it just happened.  We are not actively saying it was not our fault.  We are ... http://blog.usdrugrehabcenters.com/2008-03-21/i-dont-know-what-happened-i-just-relapsed/ We always get asked about how much time is the right length of stay in a drug rehab center?   How do you arrive at the right numbers of days?  Is there a really accurate way to judge the severity of the addiction?  Does a more severe addiction always require a ... http://blog.usdrugrehabcenters.com/2008-03-20/time-to-learn-in-drug-rehab/ Our relapse prevention workbook, is proving very popular.  The comments from clients using it have been overwhelming positive.   Several have commented that is was the best single thing, that had helped their journey past addiction.  If you would like to have the first two chapters Free, it is available on ... http://blog.usdrugrehabcenters.com/2008-03-19/two-free-chapters-of-make-your-last-relapse-your-last/ Love is something we all hope to feel and enjoy. Many times the love we feel with our immediate family and friends is simply the best part of our lives. In addiction however the strength and definition of love is pushed to the limit of human ... http://blog.usdrugrehabcenters.com/2008-03-18/love-simple-concept-tough-to-do-in-addiction/ Learning to control stress and emotions are paramount to sobriety.  One of the key skills in this journey is to learn what, are appropriate levels of concern, and what are not.   The world will always judge us.  Some of the input we receive will be positive, some will not.  Figuring ... http://blog.usdrugrehabcenters.com/2008-03-15/what-is-valid-input-what-is-not-in-drug-rehab/ Everybody wants to be liked and appreciated. I think we all have a need to feel wanted. Unfortunately this need or craving does not serve anyone well who is working in the drug and alcohol rehab field. Addiction is a condition of doing exactly what somebody wants ... http://blog.usdrugrehabcenters.com/2008-03-14/drug-rehab-is-not-about-being-liked/ There are solutions to every problem. We may not like the solution, but they are there. Drug rehab will require us to come up with these solutions. We all have an idea of how we would like things to work out. We want it all. ... http://blog.usdrugrehabcenters.com/2008-03-13/thinking-outside-the-box-about-drug-rehab/