Step One AA is fundamentally about honesty, while active addiction is characterized by denial. The ways one tells themselves and everyone around them “see I’m okay” when they most likely are not. Fully accepting step one is not always a straight path, but there is good news! The old belief that a person must fully […]

These benefits are measurable and numerous; the negative impacts, equally, are statistically and clinically significant. Studies are limited by the sheer pervasiveness of caffeine in the modern diet, and the popular consensus about the “benefits” of caffeine clearly drives some of these “benefits”. A drug addiction further complication is what appears to be high variability […]

In the early part of the night, alcohol tends to increase deep sleep (N3 stage) while reducing REM sleep. This might initially feel like more restful sleep, but it’s actually a disruption of the natural sleep cycle. “First of all, it increases our initial deep sleep, disrupting our sleep stages’ overall balance,” he said. It’s […]