In the compassionate and insightful book Loving Fully, authors Stephen R. Andrew and Wendy Noyes explore the profound importance of love and connection as essential tools for healing and personal growth.
With their guidance, readers are encouraged to embrace their own journeys of discovery with...
Chances are pretty good that, in one way or another, we’ve all used stigmatizing language associated with addiction and, by extension, with recovery.
When we recognize the burden that social stigma imposes on people in active addiction and recovery, and when we change our words...
Regaining financial control over one’s life is an important part of the recovery journey. However, people in recovery can have a difficult time getting a new checking or savings account with a financial institution due to poor money management habits from the past.
One of...
College is a time of personal growth and newfound independence. For many students, this period of experimentation includes exploring one’s relationship with substance use.
“The tight-knit relationship between college and alcohol and drug use dates back to the earliest years of the nation’s history,” says...
Have you ever felt judged by your own thoughts? This is what we call self-stigma, and it’s a big challenge for many people in recovery from addiction.
What is self-stigma?
When you hear the term “stigma,” most people imagine a select group of people who...
A bridge and a couple of miles are all that separate McAuley Residence in Portland from Southern Maine Community College (SMCC) in South Portland. But for the women of McAuley Residence, a two-generation residential program for women in substance use disorder recovery, getting to...
