Videos Resources for Addiction, Recovery and Mental Health

To provide a full spectrum of resources for those living with addiction or mental health conditions and their loved ones, The Recovery Village created several video series about addiction, co-occurring disorders and recovery.

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Stress Reduction Tips & Strategies

Identifying stress triggers and signals can help you proactively start using your personalized coping mechanisms. Some examples are highlighted in this guide.

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Relapse as a Learning Opportunity

Relapse is common in recovery. If it happens, treat relapse as a learning opportunity: analyze what happened and how you can prevent that scenario going forward.

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How a Thought Becomes a Relapse

Your thoughts and patterns of thinking can stem from triggers and may lead to relapse. Learning to identify these thoughts is an important part of relapse prevention.

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How Addiction Starts & Risk Factors

Addiction is a treatable disease that involves the brain’s pleasure and reward centers. Different environmental and genetic factors can make a person more at risk for addiction.

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Everyday Tips for Your Recovery

It’s important to identify things that bring you joy as part of your recovery. These are things that make you feel emotionally and physically healthy and vibrant.

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Deciding To Change

Changing your behavior is a process. Find the motivation to change by looking at how your substance use is affecting your life and how this change may benefit you.

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How to Live a More Balanced Life

Balance helps us reduce stress and build resilience. Balancing your nutrition, exercise, sleep, social connections and restful activities can help reduce your relapse risk.

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Understanding Addictive Behaviors

In part five of this video series on relapse, learn how you might use addictive behaviors to control aspects of your life and how this could be a problem.

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