Videos Resources for Addiction, Recovery and Mental Health

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

Avoidance of anxiety triggers is something you can work through with CBT. This guide explores how you can stop avoiding things that create anxiety in gradual steps.

Recovery is challenging. You have to identify your values in order to find meaning and live a rewarding life despite those challenges.

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.

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.

Triggers and cravings are a process. Learning how to break down that process can keep cravings from being an automatic response.

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.

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.

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.

There are times when you’ll face stress, anxiety or situations that trigger you. Learning healthy coping skills like square breathing can help you through these events.

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

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.