Category Archives: Living

  • Is your faith important in recovery?
    Monday, March 18th, 2019

    Is your faith important in recovery?

    Is your faith important in your recovery?  A question we hear occasionally at Centered Recovery is this: “Will the Centered Recovery program go against my religion or make me...
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  • Finding mindfulness based recovery
    Sunday, March 17th, 2019

    Finding mindfulness based recovery

    Centered Recovery came to the metro Atlanta area two years ago with a dream: to bring mindfulness based outpatient recovery to an area that so desperately needed it. But...
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  • A is for…
    Saturday, March 16th, 2019

    A is for…

    🅰️ IS FOR… You might not know this, but “A” is for Aria… How do I know? Because every time my three-year old daughter sees the letter “A”, it...
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  • Thoughts are like emails…
    Friday, March 1st, 2019

    Thoughts are like emails…

    I have a confession: I once had 22,496 emails in my inbox that were marked “unread”. One day at lunch, I casually passed my phone over to a friend...
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  • Aromatherapy for Mindfulness
    Wednesday, November 7th, 2018

    Aromatherapy for Mindfulness

    What is Aromatherapy? Aromatherapy, or essential oil therapy, is used by holistic health and wellness practitioners to improve a client’s mental, physical, and emotional health. Essential oils can help...
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  • Mindful Problem Solving
    Thursday, October 18th, 2018

    Mindful Problem Solving

    In my work as a therapist I help clients lower their stress response through breath work and thinking through options; hypothetical, outrageous or immediate rule-outs, to help lower the...
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  • Outside-in Misunderstanding
    Wednesday, July 18th, 2018

    Outside-in Misunderstanding

    Have you ever felt like someone made you extremely angry? Who hasn’t! When someone does something we don’t like, something that seems designed to bug us or piss us...
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  • Mindful Moments: Slow Down and Savor
    Tuesday, April 10th, 2018

    Mindful Moments: Slow Down and Savor

    Centered Recovery began a new series called “Mindful Moments”, designed to help you see the importance of being mindful as a way of life, rather than a “practice you...
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  • Mindful Meditation and Science
    Wednesday, March 28th, 2018

    Mindful Meditation and Science

    Sometimes there are people who are quick to dismiss meditative practices as being little more than mildly therapeutic, however, long-term practitioners personally experience much more than that. Thankfully, there...
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