Tag: Answer Addiction

6 ways to apply mindfulness to your digital habits The average person checks their smartphone 150 times a day and our smartphone habits increasingly remove us from the present moment and leave us hopelessly distracted. Here are six ways you can apply more mindfulness to your digital habits, starting from now. #1 Limit your source consumption With the vast amount of information that is… Continue reading 6 ways to apply mindfulness to your digital habits

The Social Media Paradox: It Sells us Connection but Sucks Our Attention Social media networks say they are all about connecting people. But they have warped into distraction engines which suck our attention – taking us away from those we could be connecting with – and spawning the logging-off, or digital detox, movement. Why did we join Facebook in the first place?… Continue reading The Social Media Paradox: It Sells us Connection but Sucks Our Attention

Think Our Technology Addiction Isn’t Bad For Our Mental Health? The Evidence is Overwhelming A common accusation directed at selfie-crazed youngsters is that they are a generation of narcissists. It’s true that social media did appear to have been emphasising the ‘individualism’ that has been a feature of Western culture since the 1960s. But this was only the… Continue reading Think Our Technology Addiction Isn’t Bad For Our Mental Health? The Evidence is Overwhelming

Parenting With Screens: Making Tech Invisible at Home My wife and I have a new rule in our household: we don’t look at our devices in front of our kids. This wasn’t always the case. Although we have always kept technology out of the hands of our kids (the only time they get an iPad… Continue reading Parenting With Screens: Making Tech Invisible at Home

We’re Misusing Technology in the Workplace – and It’s Stressing Us Out Email, web chat, social media, smartphones. The modern workplace can’t do without these things. Just imagine a working environment where all of them were suddenly banned. Employees would be shocked. Some might even take to Twitter to complain about their backward looking employer. … Continue reading We’re Misusing Technology in the Workplace – and It’s Stressing Us Out

Is Our Internet Addiction Wrecking Family Life? Our children’s relationship with tech is an uncomfortable subject. With the huge opportunity for learning and connectivity comes a multitude of concerns for parents. Kids can become so absorbed in their mobile phones and devices that it can affect their relationships, make them more distracted and impact their mental health. Why… Continue reading Is Our Internet Addiction Wrecking Family Life?

Addiction recovery is a tough and arduous process. Going from addiction to a successful recovery takes hard work, persistence, and staying true to yourself and your own goals. There are many ways to make addiction recovery interesting; we want to go over a handful of them with you now. Sometimes when there are too many failures… Continue reading Avoiding a Rut: 4 Ways to Make Addiction Recovery Interesting

There are many reasons for seeking treatment for addiction. Here, we will discuss some of the reasons you may have finally accepted the fact that you indeed do need professional help to recover from your drug or alcohol dependence. One of your reasons for seeking treatment for addiction could be: The fear of losing your… Continue reading Top 10 Reasons for Seeking Treatment for Addiction

Food has been known for centuries as one of the most powerful healing tools for man. There have been a lot of recent complications added to our foods.  It has been changed around for the worse, and we have used chemicals which should not be ingested on our foods.  The soil which holds the nutrients… Continue reading The Power of Food: How to Harness it During Recovery

When people suffer from drug or alcohol addiction, they feel as though they are completely trapped into that substance and that there is absolutely nothing that they can do about how intensively and terribly they are addicted. When people suffer and struggle with an addiction to drugs or alcohol, they really do feel as though… Continue reading Recovering Addicts: Don’t Expect a Relapse