Believe it or not, it is possible to accept criticism gracefully. If you pause for a moment to think about it, you may even know someone that you could say confidently welcomes constructive criticism, doesn’t take things personally, and is just generally the picture of warmth and grace. But if that’s not you, never fear.
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During addiction recovery, it’s common to hear of the importance of working after rehab. The daily schedule and regular paychecks can help you get back on your feet. But then, sober living jobs can be harder to come by than expected. If you’ve got a record, unexplained periods of unemployment, or other factors, you may find
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Personality was once thought of as set for life. The grumpy old lady down the street was probably a surly child. The angry boss most likely a hot-tempered elementary student. So went the reasoning. But now we know that personality can bend, reshape and change direction, many times, over a lifetime. Experience, education, and necessity,
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Long-term trends and analysis have inherent flaws. First and foremost, any sort of statistical information does not necessarily apply to individual situations, just as any number of random individual stories do not add up to a statistic. Also, over time so many factors shift, cause-and-effect can be difficult to determine (if it exists at all).
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“Failure is not falling down, but refusing to get up,” so says a Chinese proverb. Others will tell you that failure is inevitable. Indeed, the only way to not feel like a failure is probably to never do anything at all. Only in doing nothing, that itself feels like a failure. So we keep getting
Continue reading »At A Forever Recovery, a really big focus of this treatment center is to get the clients and the staff alike involved within the community. Community involvement is key to any individual’s recovery and lasting abstinence, because it is believed that this greatly helps the recovery process and helps a person to create strength in
Continue reading »A big focus at A Forever Recovery is getting the clients involved within the community through volunteer activities. The whole idea here is that a recovering individual is only as good as he can help others. While being a substance abuser, people often create very negative effects on the community that they are in. With
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We have entered into a century where there is absolutely no doubt that drug and alcohol addiction is truly a very difficult and a very problematic issue in this country, one of which simply seems to take over and get worse and worse as the years go by, creating problems and difficulties above and beyond
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