The Hope Blog

It took me many years to realize that the goal of mindfulness is not to be mindful, but to use it as a tool to develop well-being. It is this new relationship with life that includes trust, intimacy, and wonder that provides the ultimate freedom from addiction.

Any practice where we are deliberately directing our attention provides an opportunity to benefit from mindfulness. In this post, we look at using physical exercise as a form of moving meditation. We also discuss how we could develop this into a path leading to transformative insights.

Accountability checks can help people in early recovery to develop self-discipline. In this post, we provide some tools and suggestions for how to do accountability checks.

Group therapy is on the menu at most rehabs, so why is it so popular? Is it just way to save money by getting clients to do their own therapy? Or, is there a valid reason for why this approach is so widespread? Check out this post to find the answer.

The Buddhist theory of the 5 aggregates can allow us to view addiction in a radical way. We start to see how permanent change is possible by recognizing how our sense of self is fluid rather than something set in stone.

“One of the biggest breakthroughs in my own recovery was when I finally understood – I mean REALLY understood – that there was still hope.”