Outside Recovery Articles
PDF articles that address different domains of our recovery journey
Health and Exercise
- Exercise Reduces Cannabis Cravings.pdf
- Five do-it-yourself exercises to improve how happy you feel right now-do they work - Recovery R.pdf
- Exercise motivators - 4 psychological fixes to get back on track.pdf
- Fitness Tips for staying motivated - Mayo Clinic.pdf
- How Exercise Can Help Treat Addiction.pdf
- How Exercise Might Increase Your Self-Control.pdf
- How to Keep Good Habits Post-Lockdown - The New York Times.pdf
- One hour of exercise a week can prevent depression -- ScienceDaily.pdf
- Quitting alcohol may improve mental well-being health-related quality of life -- ScienceDaily.pdf
- The Benefits of Playing Music Help Your Brain More Than Any Other Activity - Inc. - Pocket.pdf
- Want to quit smoking, Partner up, Couples who attempt to stop smoking together have a sixfold chance of success -- ScienceDaily.pdf
- Why Exercise Is So Essential for Mental Health.pdf
- Mental Health Providers Struggle to Meet Pandemic Demand - The New York Times.pdf
Individual Stories
Mood
- 6 Steps to Turn Regret Into Self-Improvement - The New York Times.pdf
- Dealing with SAD.pdf
- Exercise as Medicine for Depression – A Key But Often Overlooked Role In Prevention And Treatment.pdf
- Explaining the link between emotion and addictive substance use -- ScienceDaily.pdf
- Is Guilt Good for Your Health - Scientific American.pdf
- Regret 8 Ways to Move On.pdf
- Self Compassion - Scientific American.pdf
- Stress Depression and the Holidays.pdf
- Stress Management.pdf
- Stress.pdf
- The Self Compassion Solution.pdf
Misc.
- How being realistic can be key to your wellbeing - BBC Worklife.pdf
- How to Build Healthy Habits - The New York Times.pdf
- Life Changed When I Stopped Drinking _ by Sara Nash, PhD, LMHC _ Medium.pdf
- Top 6 Smartphone Apps for Addiction Recovery - Drug Rehab Options.pdf
- The Truth About How Boring Life Is Without Alcohol _ by Amanda Kuda _ Noteworthy - The Journal Blog.pdf
- It’s Not You. It’s the Alcohol.. For at least a year into my life as an… _ by Lonna Whiting _ Nov, 2020 _ Medium.pdf
Motivation and Relapse
Science
- Brain Change in Addiction as Learning, Not Disease, Marc Lewis.pdf
- Dopamine Duality of Desire, Marc Lewis.pdf
- Exercise as Medicine for Depression – A Key But Often Overlooked Role In Prevention And Treatment.pdf
- Experts review evidence yoga is good for the brain.pdf
- Even low-risk drinking can be harmful -- ScienceDaily.pdf
- Fundamental Factors of Success in Addiction Recovery.pdf
- Here's another interesting study asking how many attempts does it take to quit.pdf
- How Addiction Works.pdf
- How Long Does Withdrawal From Marijuana Last.pdf
- Lancet article on moderate alcohol drinking.pdf
- Lancet no level of alcohol.pdf
- Mental Health in a Cannabis Nation.pdf
- Sleep Problems Associated with Addiction and Recovery.pdf
- Study on quitting attempts.pdf
- The Opposite of Addiction is Connection.pdf
- Timeline of body effects after stopping drinking.pdf
- Turn Down Your Brain.pdf
- Type 1 and 2 thinking.pdf
- Using Behavioral Science to Build an Exercise Habit.pdf
- Why Music Makes Our Brains Sing.pdf
- Why You Procrastinate (It Has Nothing to Do With Self-Control) - The New York Times.pdf
- E-cigarettes won't help smokers quit.pdf
- Brain parts, mind parts, and psychotherapy for addiction _ Understanding Addiction.pdf
Urges
- 5 Easy Tools to Resist the Urge of Bad Habits aka DEADS.pdf
- 10 Tips for Staying Sober During the Holidays.pdf
- Challenging Negative Thoughts.pdf
- Changing Addictive Thought Patterns.pdf
- Creating Cues Not to Use.pdf
- Delay Discounting and the Use of Mindful Attention Versus Distraction.pdf
- Delay Having a Drink.pdf
- Marc Lewis - Delay Discounting.pdf
- Planning to Avoid Temptations Helps in Goal Pursuit - ScienceBlog.com.pdf
- Power of Habit.pdf
- Talk to Yourself in the Second or Third Person for Better Motivation.pdf
- Talking the Tape Forward.pdf
- The 6 Triggers of Craving.pdf
- To Get Sober Delay Having the Drink.pdf
- Want to quit smoking Partner up.pdf
- Why Cravings Occur.pdf
- Why Gulping Down a Cold Drink Feels So Rewarding - The New York Times.pdf