Jackie Cortez

Ms. Cortez works with The Prevention Coalition to find resources on every aspect of addiction, including recovery.

Healthy Habits that Lower Anxiety and Fuel Sobriety

This is a guest post from Jackie Cortez from The Prevention Coalition.

You don’t have to be fitness-obsessed or a health food nut to know that healthy habits play a big role in how you feel. What you do on a day-to-day basis impacts your energy level and general well-being, as well as your emotional state and confidence level. Healthy habits are important for keeping our lives in balance, and this is especially true for men who are in recovery for addiction. When you work on making these healthy habits part of your daily routine, you will feel better physically and be mentally prepared to handle whatever comes your way. (more…)

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Breaking Bad Habits Through Self-Discipline

This is a guest post from Jackie Cortez from The Prevention Coalition.

Whether you want to stop eating refined sugar or finally break things off with a woman once for all, breaking bad habits requires sacrifice and self-discipline. By indulging in our bad habits, we may be harming our overall mental and physical health. Breaking the habits isn’t easy, but with the right strategies and some self-discipline, success is possible. (more…)

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Creating A Healthier Life: Build Self-Discipline To Conquer Bad Habits And Addictions

This is a guest post from Jackie Cortez from The Prevention Coalition.

Breaking bad habits can pave the way to a much healthier life, but finding the self-discipline to make it happen can be a challenge. There are plenty of choices we make that we know are not good for our overall health, and sometimes those choices progress to the point of becoming an addiction. Making sacrifices and lasting changes can be incredibly challenging, but they are well worth the effort when it comes to improving your health.

Breaking bad habits and addictions often leads to better health.
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Bad habits and addictions come in many shapes and forms when it comes to health and they all can take a toll on our mental health and physical fitness. Drug and alcohol addictions are quite common in today’s society. However, people can also develop addictions related to things like food, exercise, and nicotine. It is also common to replace one addiction with another; for example, replacing a drug addiction with a nicotine addiction. Recognizing and conquering these types of bad habits or addictions can lead to substantial improvements in your health.

Here are some tips on how to do it: (more…)

By Jackie Cortez, ago