7 Creative Ways to Process Your Emotions
Content reviewed by Christian Losch, LCSW, LCADC, CEO of Pinelands Dealing with emotions can be challenging enough on its own. However, if you are in the midst of addiction recovery, you may feel as though handling your emotions is a daunting and never-ending task. While tending to your emotions will always be necessary, this does not […]
Understanding Anger as a Secondary Emotion
Anger is a complex emotion that can have a profound effect on you and the people around you. Anger can cause you to act in ways that you might not make you feel proud. Anger can even cause you to make mistakes that you might later regret. Anger can also become challenging to control at […]
Learning to Express Negative Emotions in a Healthy Manner
Over the course of addiction treatment, you will experience a wide range of emotions — from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows. Recovery is hard, and healing is not linear. At times you will feel on top of the world as you conquer your addiction, but there will also be days when […]
Behavioral Therapy: DBT and CBT and How They Help Fight Addiction
Behavioral Therapy: DBT and CBT and How They Help Fight Addiction What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)? Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBD) is a short-term behavioral psychotherapy used as a hands-on approach to re-teach patients problem-solving as well as changing the patterns of behavior and thinking that lead to a patient’s difficulties. It can be used […]