The Recovery Coach NY Blog
You Bet Your Life
It's all made to look so glamorous: big winnings, bragging rights, respect and admiration from your peers as you flaunt your successes. Well, that's the dream anyway. Is it possible? Sure, but highly improbable. [...]
Sharpen Your Executive Function Skills
It came on slowly, you hardly even noticed it at all, but things have started to pile up. You’re late to appointments, losing stuff, missing payment due dates. It’s become a struggle to accomplish seemingly [...]
Exercise Your Brain
For most of us, engaging in physical activity is a part of our daily routine. But while you’re working out you may be missing an essential part of your body – your brain! Just as [...]
Breathe Yourself Calm
Relieving your stress and anxiety can be as easy as inhale, exhale by practicing a technique called The Relaxing Breath Method, or 4:7:8. It’s based on yoga practice breathing and made popular by Dr. Andrew [...]
Thinking About Your Drinking?
Grey Area Drinking: the space between drinking moderately and alcohol misuse. In a report on CBS News Dr. Aakash Shah, Chief of Jersey Shore University Medical Center's Addiction Medical Center, said “the term Grey Area [...]
SAD?
The holidays are over, work has started again and you’re just not feeling it. You’re dragging, reluctant to put down the cookies, put on real clothes and get back to it. It’s dark, it’s dreary, [...]
New Years Blues Busters
The post-holiday blahs can set in pretty quickly at the start of the new year. Feeling blue after the rush of the holidays is totally normal and it’s OK to take some time to adjust [...]
