Have you let these falsehoods about alcohol or drugs step in between you and sobriety? In this post, you’ll learn why 5 alcohol myths are dangerous to your health and livelihood.

Do you deny or excuse your excessive drinking?

Denial is when you refuse to accept a harsh reality as truth.

At first, denial in high functioning professionals isn’t recognizable. You are able to explain away your alcohol or drug abuse to your family,  loved ones, colleagues, and yourself. As you continue to abuse alcohol, the different types of denial become more natural to recognize and more destructive.

High functioning executive stress is a known cause of cravings for alcohol. Learning to manage your cravings before it controls you, takes practice, but it is not impossible. Do cravings for alcohol cause fear and uncertainty throughout your busy workday? It’s a known fact that stressful situations create the obsession to drink in those who suffer from substance use disorders. Learn to control your cravings.

As an executive, your daily routine has stressful situations lurking

Do you think you are drinking too frequently or having more drinks than intended? Learn how to spot early warning signs of an alcohol use disorder in high functioning executives.

Have you completed treatment and wondered what to do next? Confused and fearful about going home to old hectic routines and chaos.? learn 7 reasons why a sober living home builds the optimal foundation to support early recovery.

Learn how The Lighthouse leverages innovative technology SoberLink to help ensure the continued recovery of our residential and nonresidential community.

For many executives, high stress and responsibility are coupled with a lavish lifestyle of travel and parties and open bars. In this setting, it can be that much more difficult to accept the truth of addiction, get help, and operate in this professional lifestyle without backsliding. It is critical to be able to recognize triggering situations, such as stress, failure, success, and the omnipresence of substances. Support can come in the form of peers, who understand the triggers and help

It’s easy to sweep drug addiction out of our minds, either feeling judgmental or indifferent about the stereotypical addict. We might imagine them as homeless…or at least wayward, and probably with a checkered employment history at a dead-end job, if they are employed at all. Some of us kind of expect drugs and alcohol to run hand-in-hand with certain employment choices, don’t we? If we knew the real statistics, we may all be surprised. Drug Addiction Among Professionals As a business owner and someone

According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, addiction recovery is defined as a process of change through which people improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life and strive to reach their full potential. Reaching addiction recovery isn’t simply abstaining from drugs or alcohol— it includes making important changes to your lifestyle.  For many people, the first year spent sober is often daunting and stressful. It’s important to remember that just as each person’s struggle with the