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Can You Do the 12 Steps Without a Sponsor?

By The Insight Program|2024-03-25T21:28:28+00:00March 25th, 2024|Early Recovery|

If you’re new to the 12-step approach to addiction recovery, you’ve inevitably heard talk about sponsorship. It can also be

During the course of treatment for substance use disorders, it’s common to wonder if aftercare is truly necessary, especially as

By Clint Stonebraker|2024-03-25T21:32:04+00:00September 29th, 2023|Early Recovery, Recovery Tools & Tips|

If you’ve just begun your journey in recovery, congratulations! Whether you’re in some kind of addiction treatment program or you’re

In today's fast-paced world, it can often feel that we have access to all the free rushes that we could

By The Insight Program|2024-02-14T00:21:30+00:00July 31st, 2023|Early Recovery|

Aside from the fact that we are substance abuse counselors working in the field, we are also folks who have

By The Insight Program|2024-02-05T23:41:50+00:00July 17th, 2023|Early Recovery|

One of the scariest decisions many of us have ever had to make was the decision about whether or not

By The Insight Program|2024-03-25T21:34:32+00:00May 18th, 2023|Early Recovery|

One of the first things that comes up when a person is deciding to get sober is the fact that

Almost invariably, newcomers in early recovery from addiction report that the first few months were very difficult. Newly sober individuals

Early recovery from substance use disorders brings up a number of new challenges. For a newly sober person the holiday