Author name: Bryan Garman

Bryan was born in Philadelphia and remains an ardent supporter of Philadelphia sports. After attending FSU and FAU where he majored in writing, Bryan ventured out to follow in the footsteps of his idols, running straight into drug addiction.  After being arrested by the President’s Secret Service, Bryan finally started to rebuild his life and beat that monkey off of his back through writing, playing music, and studying Buddhist philosophy. Despite still having the occasional struggles with mental health, Bryan strives to be a little bit better a person each day.   With the support and love from a loyal family, and kind-hearted and generous friends, Bryan tries to help people vanquish their own personal demons as he did and bring more love and beauty into a pessimistic world.

Life Shows up in Sobriety: concept pic of a woman calm before the storm

Life Shows Up in Sobriety

Preparing for Roadblocks that Come Up in Recovery There can sometimes be a huge misconception about sobriety that many newly recovering addicts and alcoholics may be bummed to learn about. Interested? The saying that, “you will live a life beyond your wildest dreams” doesn’t happen overnight, and it isn’t referring to being rich and famous. …

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Recovery - Pride vs Egotism

Recovery: Pride vs Egotism

Pride in Recovery: A Double-Edged Sword Today we will be looking at what pride can mean when it comes to substance abuse and recovery. People become addicted to mind-altering substances for numerous reasons. For some, addiction is an illness that runs in the family; they become addicts basically after picking up the habits of parents, siblings, spouses, …

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Geographical Change in Sobriety

What is the Geographical Change in Sobriety?

Geography as Part of the Problem, and Solution, in Recovery The word “uncomfortable” is defined as, “feeling unease or awkwardness.” The majority of addicts and alcoholics are all too familiar with the feeling of discomfort. Before our sobriety, we drank and used drugs to mask our discontent.  We have been consistently running from our consciousness, …

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Maintain Your Sobriety

5 Ways to Help Maintain Your Sobriety

Maintaining sobriety after rehab treatment can be a great challenge for anyone. Knowing well the difficulty of early recovery, we devised a few easy methods of helping bolster your sobriety. The following are our five ways to help maintain your sobriety. Connect with Others in Recovery Connect with other people during recovery, especially those who …

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Addiction truly is cunning, baffling, and powerful

Addiction: Cunning, Baffling, and Powerful

Addiction: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Unfortunately, many people who have never stepped foot into the fellowship rooms of a Twelve-Step addiction recovery program have extremely negative and inaccurate perceptions of addiction. This is primarily due to the fact that these people only see the destructive results of this obsession and allergy.  Once …

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Sobriety - A man sits at a table on the phone with a glass of water and some pills on the table. He is on the phone with his sponsor going over positive affirmations to help maintain his sobriety.

The Power of Positive Affirmations in Sobriety

Have you ever seen the Youtube video of the little girl standing on her sink, spouting positive affirmations about her life in front of her mirror? In sobriety, positive affirmations play an important role in our lives just like this little girl. She is filled with such life and hope and gratitude as she bops …

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Replacing One Addiction With Another

Replacing One Addiction With Another and Why it Never Works

Substituting Addictions Replacing one addiction with another seems like the best way to overcome substance abuse.  When I first came into the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous, I figured I was going to learn how to drink like normal people. I couldn’t wait to have one glass of wine with dinner at Christmas and be able …

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How To Stop Beating Yourself Up

How To Stop Beating Yourself Up

How To Stop Beating Yourself Up While every recovering addict has their own unique experiences and struggles, we do share a few common traits and habits. You will hear those habits talked about at meetings and over coffee. One thing that many in recovery can relate to is the concept of “beating yourself up.” This …

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