What is Dopamine and How Does it Adversely Affect People Suffering from Addiction?
Why is it so hard for a person using drugs or alcohol to quit abusing them and what does dopamine have to do with it? If you, or someone [...]
How to Prepare Your Child for Peer Pressure
As schools across the country are gearing up for or are already underway into a new school year, whether it be virtually or in-person due to COVID-19, now is a [...]
What it Means to Enable a Person With Addiction
Helping vs. Enabling If you’ve been on the outside looking in on someone suffering from addiction, it’s hard to understand why your advice, financial favors, or words of encouragement [...]
Why Family Healing is Important
You will often hear behavioral health professionals refer to substance use disorder* (SUD) as a family disease and you may wonder what this means. Especially since, in most cases, [...]
Why the Journey to Recovery is Worth It
“It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.” You may have heard this famous quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self Reliance, a transcendental guide to connecting oneself with the inner [...]
Alcoholism Awareness
There is a common perception of how an alcoholic looks and conducts themselves. Often times, especially in the media, alcoholism is portrayed through belligerent, conniving, and hostile behavior. While [...]
Helping Families to Grow, Heal and Thrive Together
At Herren Project, we want to help families grow, heal and thrive together. We were excited to collaborate with The Family Dinner Project (TFDP) during Wellness Week [...]
Practicing Wellness in Recovery
At Herren, we believe it is important to not only talk about how wellness can positively impact our lives both mentally and physically, but to actively practice elements of [...]
The Benefits of Dinner Discussions
Start the Conversation About Wellness At Herren, we want to help families grow, heal and thrive together. We encourage you to make “family dinner” a goal during Wellness Week [...]
Why Exercise is So Helpful in Combating Addiction and Maintaining Long-term Sobriety
By: Jared Henry Four years ago, I entered a rehabilitation center for the second time. When I think back on the time that my life was consumed by alcohol and [...]
