Dec 8, 2020 | Alcohol, Coping With Urges, Lifestyle Balance, Managing Thoughts, SMART News, Support SMART
Family gatherings, year-end celebrations, seasonal stress: there are lots of opportunities and reasons to drink—and drink heavily —over the holidays. Yet, with a little planning, you can deal with these triggers and urges from a place of personal...
Dec 7, 2020 | Coping With Urges, Lifestyle Balance, Podcast, SMART News
Stacey McKeever is a librarian in southern California. Her lifelong struggle with food addiction has led her to use SMART Recovery as one pathway to maintaining balance in her life. In this podcast, Stacey talks about: How she was a librarian even before...
Feb 10, 2020 | Lifestyle Balance, Volunteer
We all know that emergencies and changes of schedule happen. Whether a flat tire, a family emergency, or even a family member’s sporting event or school play – we are sometimes unfortunately and through no fault of our own called away from prior commitments and others...
Oct 21, 2019 | Alcohol, Family & Friends, Lifestyle Balance
A blog provided by Kathy Lang, SMART Recovery Family & Friends Facilitator All healthy relationships are based on respecting other’s rights. When we respect each other’s rights, we are recognizing our boundaries. Boundaries are guidelines that define what we feel...
Aug 28, 2019 | Alcohol, Conference, Coping With Urges, Lifestyle Balance, Managing Thoughts, Motivation
Provided by David Koss, SMART Recovery Facilitator, Capital SMART Participants in SMART Recovery, in fact all individuals who change problematic behavior, owe a debt a gratitude to the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change, as developed and refined since the late...
Aug 15, 2019 | Coping With Urges, Events, Lifestyle Balance, Motivation, Podcast, SMART News
SMART Recovery was recently featured in Cigna’s Behavioral Awareness Series, in an episode entitled: Freedom From Addiction. SMART Recovery Board President, Bill Greer, is someone who understands addiction from two perspectives: as someone who has used the SMART...