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How to Help a Friend or Family Member with Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline Personality Disorder or BPD is a difficult disorder to diagnose and treat. If you have a family member or friend that has Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), and you’ve decided to help them, here are some tips that can help.

Learn About Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

The best thing you can do is arm yourself with information about Borderline Personality Disorder. Instead of getting into a yelling match, you can find solutions by learning how to speak to them. Understanding the symptoms and how to respond to those with Borderline Personality Disorder can make the experience of engagement a productive one.

Recovery Counseling - 09/13/2016

7 Struggles Introverts Have in the Summer

Many people find it difficult to admit they’re introverts, because introverts are often seen as people that don’t like being around other people. However, introverts simply gain energy from time alone; it doesn’t mean that they don’t enjoy being with others. Being an introvert can come with some challenges, particularly during the summer months.

Anxiety Counseling / blog / Recovery Counseling - 08/22/2016

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Benefits of Journaling for Addiction Recovery

An effective way of dealing with memories and intense self-reflection is journaling.

A way of “letting go,” jotting down your feelings is an important part of your addiction recovery. Whether you are dependent on a substance or a behavior, Pathway Real Life Recovery is here to help bring order into your life by assisting you in your battle against addiction. There are irreplaceable tools in any battle, recovery journaling is a tool that plays an important role in restoring good mental and physical health free of chaos.

blog / Recovery Counseling - 08/18/2016

7 Drug and Alcohol Relapse Prevention Tips for After Recovery is Over

What happens after treatment is over? How do you prevent relapse once treatment ends? Learn about relapse, the causes of relapse, triggers that potentially lead to relapse and relapse prevention as part of the ongoing recovery process.

Relapse Prevention Tips

Getting clean and sober does not mean you become a dull, boring person. It simply means you have fun without that drink in your hand or needle in your arm. As you become healthier, you realize how much better you actually feel. Consider these tips to help you stay clean:

Recovery Counseling - 07/28/2016

7 Tips to Have a Body Positive Summer

It's sometimes tough to feel good about your body in the summer when all over the media and magazines feature lose weight fast articles or fad diets to get your beach body. We all worry about our height, weight, scars, or the size of our bodies in various ways. However, you should know that it's possible to celebrate being healthy, and you can be happy and goofy on the beach while loving who you are. Though it might be tough to feel great in the summer, especially at the beginning, we want to offer some tips to help you celebrate your fabulous body. Here are some tips you can follow to stay positive about your body all summer long.

blog / Body Image - 07/21/2016

A woman and two children engaging in playful sword-fighting in a living room, exemplifying the importance of mental health care for families struggling with drug addiction.

9 Simple Ways to Manage Stress

Stress is bad news. The medical community agrees that prolonged, unmanaged stress can lead to long-term health problems, depression and insomnia. The worst part is that stress can come from any aspect of our lives: work, relationships, our own insecurity or those bills that won’t stop coming.

So what can we do about it?

The medical community also agrees that stress is (unfortunately) a natural part of life. And if managed properly, regular amounts of stress can even help us thrive! So the answer to stress isn’t to eliminate it, but to manage it in responsible ways that allow us to move forward and enjoy life, health and our loved ones.

Here are nine simple ways to manage stress.

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Anxiety Counseling - 06/17/2016

5 Tips to Manage Social Anxiety

Social anxiety, also called social phobia, is the fear of being around people. A person suffering from social anxiety often has unreasonable or excessive fear of social interactions or situations, and would rather be alone than interact with other people. It arises from the fear of being judged, criticized, or closely watched by others. It is estimated that social anxiety disorder affects roughly 15 million adults in the U.S and is the most common mental illness in the United States. It is as common in men as it is in women but often affects people around the age of 13.

Anxiety Counseling / Stress Counseling - 06/15/2016

Inward and Outward: How External Behavior and Addiction Are An Ongoing Cycle

What Are Externalizing Behaviors?

Externalizing behaviors are directed outward, towards our environment and the people in it – everything from our jobs, to our friends and our families, to the person standing behind us in line at the coffee shop, or the clerk ringing up the sale. Instead of expressing negative emotion or anger in a productive way that addresses the problem directly, our reactions are directed at ‘innocent bystanders” in our immediate vicinity.

Mental Disorders / Self-improvement Counseling / Teenage - 05/24/2016

Mother's Day, A Never-Ending Reason to Stay Sober

With Mother's Day weekend nearly here you will see a lot of advertisements for gifts and flowers and other tokens of affection. But if your family is struggling with drug addiction or alcohol addiction, one of the best gifts you can give is the dedication to staying sober. Whether your mother is your inspiration for remaining sober, or you are a mother (or father) wanting to stay sober for your children, there are many reasons on this Mother's Day to choose sobriety. Pathways Real Life Recovery is here to help.

Addiction Counseling - 04/27/2016

Toddler Tantrum Help in Utah - Pathways Real Life Recovery

Toddler Tantrum Tips for Parents

If we haven’t witnessed them first-hand, we have all heard of the “terrible twos”, that period of time when toddlers are prone to throwing temper tantrums. In actuality, and unfortunately for parents and caregivers, tantrums don’t start the day a toddler turns two and end the day they turn three. Tantrums usually occur as children are going through normal developmental phases between the ages of 18 months to four years.

A tantrum should not be viewed as a negative thing, although it’s easy to feel that way in the moment. Toddlers aren’t intentionally trying to push our buttons. When a child throws a tantrum, he or she is actually creating or expressing their own individuality, and demonstrating that they can think for themselves. They don’t have the skills to express themselves differently at that age, which is where parents and caregivers need to both meet the child’s needs and help them learn how to cope with problems differently in the future.

Children Therapy - 04/25/2016