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Managing Your Mental Health: When It’s Time to Get Some Help
Knowing when to seek professional treatment for drug or alcohol addiction can be pretty clear. Job loss, a DUI, financial troubles, or relationship issues are often the signs that you’ve hit rock bottom and need to get help. On the other hand, knowing when to get help for mental health struggles isn’t always as straightforward.…
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Drug and Alcohol Withdrawal: Can You Detox at Home?
One of the biggest hurdles to overcoming addiction has to be going through the drug or alcohol detox process. Without the proper knowledge or support, withdrawal symptoms and cravings associated with detox can keep you from ever achieving the long-term recovery you or your loved one deserves. And even worse, attempting to detox on your…
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Understanding Addiction as a Family Disease
Is your loved one dealing with an addiction? For them, the experience can be very lonely and isolating. They may think they’re the only person struggling in the family. However, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Addiction is a family disease, after all. Addiction can even be rooted in issues among the family, such…
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The Impact of Sleep on Recovery: Establishing Healthy Sleep Patterns
Did you sleep well last night? If you worked late, binge watched a favorite TV show, or recently had a baby, then probably not. Many of us struggle to get enough sleep or good quality sleep. Parents of young children can particularly relate. When you’re navigating trauma and recovery, you can struggle with poor sleep…
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How Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Can Transform Your Outpatient Recovery Journey
“Treatment” is a vague term that can mean different things in different contexts, and different situations may call for different treatment methods. That’s why there are a number of therapies you may participate in during an evidence-based addiction treatment program. At The Blanchard Institute, we believe it’s important to take a holistic, innovative approach to…
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The Impact of Language on Stigma in Addiction and Mental Health
As a child on the playground, did you ever find yourself responding to a slight by chanting, “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me”? Wouldn’t it be nice if that childish retort were really true? In reality, words can hurt. And in the world of addiction recovery and mental…
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The Role of Siblings in Addiction Recovery: The Sphere of Influence in Family
You’ve known your brother or sister for your entire life — or the majority of it. They likely played an influential role in who you are today. So, no doubt, it’s challenging to see them struggle with substance abuse, causing addiction and family to intertwine in unpleasant ways. But now they’re in a recovery program…
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How to Be an Ally for Those in Recovery
Is your loved one in treatment for addiction? If so, they need you now more than ever. At The Blanchard Institute, we know that family members like you play an integral role in your loved one’s recovery and ongoing healing. That’s why we don’t just treat the individual, we equip families with the knowledge and…
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Relapse in the Family: How to Find Strength & Solutions Together
When your loved one enters an addiction treatment program, the goal is not only to achieve sobriety, but also to live a happy, healthy, more connected and fulfilled life. Yet despite these good intentions, sometimes your loved one relapses. If this happens, not only does it impact them, it impacts the whole family. That’s because…
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Common Relapse Triggers and How to Manage Them
Relapse is a significant concern for anyone on the path to recovery from addiction. Understanding and managing triggers is essential to maintaining sobriety. Triggers are stimuli that evoke cravings or urges to use substances. They can be emotional, social, environmental, or even physical. Recognizing these triggers and developing strategies to cope with them can help…