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Empower Your Recovery Lifestyle With A Personalized System of Recovery (And To Fulfill Your Needs, Wants, and Desires).
John MakohenArise Recovery Coaching in NYC Recovery is a process. It begins when you choose to start reducing the dangerous consequences of your substance use disorder. Many in the United States want you to believe recovery begins when you stop using drugs or...

Timeless Recovery Quotes From Ralph Waldo Emerson, On Self-Reliance.
John Makohen Arise Recovery Coaching in NYC Recovery quotes help you to get a better perspective on recovery. Some people rely on the old tried and true ecovery quotes and never bother to look elswhere for quotes to help gain perspective on life, self rleiance,...

A Street Junkie’s Nightmare Before Christmas: Breaking my Fast With The Mob
Homeless. Alone. Hungry. And Cold: Street JunkyA Street Junky's Nightmare Before Christmas: Broke & Breakfast With The MobJohn MakohenArise Recovery Coaching in NYCWhen I was living a street junky life I liked to think of myself as industrious. An idea's machine....

Recovery Sneaks Up On You Don’t Get Caught Off Guard
John Makohen Arise Recovery Coaching in NYC "Recovery Sneaks Up on You." A few weeks back, I connected with a group of fantastic coaches, trainers, and advocates in our growing recovery community During the conference’s closing keynote, at MPRC 2019: THE National...

Prepare A Coping Skills Emergency Plan To Stop A Lapse Dead In Its Tracks.
Coping Skills Emergency Plan, Early Recovery, Lapse and Relapse Are You Afraid Using Heroin One Time (Lapse) Equals Failure? Create A Coping Skills Emergency Plan & HALT the Lapse Dead In Its Tracks. John Makohen Arise Recovery Coaching in NYCDo you have a coping...

Do You Know The Difference Between Lapse and Relapse?
Coping Skills & Early RecoveryJohn Makohen Arise Recovery Coaching in NYC Knowing the difference between a lapse and relapse could be the difference between you finding fulfillment in recovery or hell in full-blown heroin use. I had an emergency meeting with a...

Gratitude Journaling The Foundation of Your System for Recovery.
John Makohen Arise Recovery Coaching in NYC Gratitude journaling has many benefits. Before I started to use my journal for keepintrack of what I was grateful each day, I was full of resentment, anger, and always battling negative self-talk. Gratitude helped me to...

3 Practical Reasons A Gratitude Journal Could Be the Difference Between Relapse and Recovery.
What is keeping you from starting a gratitude journal? It is a simple practice. It doesn't require much time. New research proves expressing thankfulness in a gratitude journal will have positive effects on your health. Dr. Robert Emmons writes, “One of the...

Roadblocks to Recovery Will Sabotage Your Recovery From Heroin & Other Drugs
Roadblocks to recovery are barriers blocking your way from achieving fulfillment in a lifestyle for recovery. You know that recovery is not easy. It takes work. It takes just as much work to free yourself from the chaos heroin addiction has caused in your life as it...

Harm Reduction Works A Personal Case Study of Harm Reduction Injected with Gratitude.
John Makohen Arise Recovery Coaching in NYC Why Harm Reduction combined with recovery coaching meets readiness for change. When I became a certified recovery coach I promised to meet you (and other persons in recovery 'recoverees') where you were at in your...