Academy for Addiction and Mental Health Nutrition Blog

Relapse Prevention

Some Underlying Drivers of Chronic Relapse

There are many reasons I love working with people in recovery who struggle with ongoing slips and relapses. First of all, everyone who has come to me for help is committed to sobriety and desperate for the right type of help. By the time they get to me, there is no ambivalence left. They WANT to make a new life work for them but simply haven’t found the right key. Some people have given up trying by this point because no matter what they try, it doesn’t seem to work.

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Amino Acids and Sugar Craving

Amino acid therapy can be very helpful to everyone struggling to deal with sugar cravings. Sugar cravings can be persistent and often create intense discouragement in people trying unsuccessfully to fight them. However, a variety of simple amino acids, which can be bought over-the-counter at vitamin stores or on-line, often do the trick! How so?

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Mental Health Nutrition

But, How Do I Get to Sleep???

We have all experienced a sleepless night or two worrying about an exam or job interview, or wondering how to pay the rent. But family members of active alcoholics and addicts often find that sleep eludes them much more chronically and dangerously.

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Mental Health Nutrition

Feeding the Recovering Brain for Holiday Serenity

It is our brain’s job to allow us to cope with stress gracefully, but to do that, it needs to be fed optimally! How can we optimally feed our brains this holiday season so that we can find and maintain joy, serenity, and sobriety success?

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Question & Answer: Mental Health Nutrition

A former student called this week with some questions both from her new business coach and a client which she wasn’t sure how to answer. She had decided to put her new skills in mental health nutrition up onto her website.

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