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My New Normal
After completing addiction treatment at Aspire Counseling Services you will likely feel a wide variety of emotions, from relief, pride, and excitement, to nervousness, worry, and even fear of what your new normal will look like. It is crucial to understand that addiction recovery is a lifelong journey, but a rewarding journey if you stay focused and build the right relationships to support you along the way.
Keeping Your Teen Safe This Summer
Summer offers a lot of free time opportunity for teenagers, something they treasure! However, for parents, there is a valid concern of how to protect their teen’s health and wellness. Aspire Counseling Services offers some tips for parents to help them address challenges their teen may face, such as mental health problems, behavioral issues, and substance use.
What Role Are You Playing?
When you have a loved one that is fighting an addiction to alcohol or drugs, it is a necessary step in self-discovery to consider what your role has been throughout their struggles. There are many different roles that family members take on when someone is living with a substance use disorder: the Enabler, the Lost Child, the Mascot, or the Hero. Regardless of what your role has been in the past, family support groups held at Aspire Counseling Services can help you to change your role to best help your loved one as well as yourself.
Importance of Community Connections
Aspire Counseling Services is at the forefront in providing top quality, affordable care to each of the communities we serve. However, Aspire does not do this alone. We have very close community connections with numerous schools and organizations to educate and proactively address substance use and mental health issues from a preventative and recovery standpoint.
It’s A Journey Not A Destination
It’s a Journey Not a Destination You may have heard that sobriety is a journey, not a destination. What does that mean? Some people mistakenly believe it means that sobriety can never be achieved, you will always struggle and fight against intense cravings...
Substance Use: Know How to Talk to Your Teen
Substance Use: Know How to Talk to Your Teen As parents, we are aware of all the mistakes we made as teenagers and want to help make sure our teens don’t make the same mistakes, or even worse ones. That makes us tend to give our children as much advice as...
Nature: The Best Treatment
Nature: The Best Treatment Over the past two years, stress and anxiety have increased to nearly pandemic levels themselves. The many unknowns and severe disruptions to all our lives have caused many of us to experience mental health issues for the first...
Treatment | Again?
Treatment | Again Many people will recover from an addiction, then relapse and begin using drugs or drinking again. In fact, between 40% to 60% of recovering addicts will relapse. With a relapse, most people will experience feelings of shame and guilt and a...
Fake It Or Own It
Fake It or Own It – How to Make It There is an old saying, “Fake it ‘til you make it.” The implication is that if you imitate having confidence, and ability to do something, that eventually you will build that confidence and ability. There is some scientific...
Women | Providing Healing, Promoting Hope
Women | Providing Healing, Promoting Hope Since 1987, Congress has passed a resolution each year recognizing March as Women’s History Month. The contributions of women are often overlooked in history, and this month provides an opportunity to have their...
February | Plant the Seeds of Greatness
February | Plant the Seeds of Greatness In January, many of us make New Year’s resolutions and struggle to remain committed to them. February offers us a whole new opportunity for improving ourselves during “Plant the Seeds of Greatness” month. This annual...
Depression in California
Depression and anxiety are often linked together. People with anxiety disorder often suffer from depression, and people with depression often suffer from anxiety. In fact, nearly half of those diagnosed with depression are also diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, according to…
Planting Seeds, Saving Lives
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