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The Power and Benefits Of Journaling In Addiction Recovery
Journaling is a powerful tool that allows you to express your innermost feelings and thoughts through writing. Granite Mountain Behavioral ...
Seasonal Affective Disorder: Vitamin D and Depression
Depression is one of the most common mental health conditions, but seasonal depression often goes overlooked. Many people think the ...
Alcohol’s Effect On Muscles
For decades, we've been trying to find ways to consume alcohol without gaining the adverse alcohol effects has on your ...
What is Trauma-Informed Care?
What is Trauma? Trauma is an event or experience that overwhelms and impacts a person’s sense of security/coping ability. Traumas ...
Rebuilding Your Life After Addiction: 10 Tips for a New Start
Suddenly entering a drug and alcohol recovery program and becoming sober is difficult enough, but rebuilding your life after addiction ...
Focusing on Mental Health: Discussing the Importance of World Mental Health Day
We are in the middle of a pandemic, but it is certainly not the only health problem facing the world ...
Holistic Therapies: Using Acupuncture for Addiction Treatment
Holistic therapy is a treatment that uses all-natural means to promote healing or sobriety. One commonly used holistic treatment is ...
Self-Care in Addiction Recovery
Self-care in addiction recovery is crucial to long-term sobriety. In addition to sobriety, self-care helps individuals experience joy, connection, and ...
Loneliness And Alcoholism
Being alone really hurts. It hurts so bad for some people that they turn to alcohol as a form of ...
The Dangerous Cycle of Codependency and Substance Abuse
Codependency doesn’t only refer to relationships and drug abuse; it also refers to a person and his or her drug ...
Cognitive Dissonance Treatment
Oftentimes, people have an explanation for their behavior and tend to rationalize it to make what they are doing seem ...
COVID-19 Preventative Measures
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 Coronavirus, Granite Mountain Behavioral Healthcare is taking steps to be proactive in ensuring ...