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I’m Lila T Hines, Nutritionist, Globe trotter, and an ardent advocate for Women’s Health & Wellness. Cali girl living in Charlotte, North Carolina, with my fiancé and our cat. Healthy with Hines is a result of my passion for leading a healthy, balanced lifestyle and focusing on living consciously in the moment.

My drive to live the healthy lifestyle I lead today comes from a very unhealthy past of mine. During the teenage years, I struggled hard to fit into a perfect, supermodel body image. I was the cheer captain of my high school’s cheerleading squad. I had self-esteem issues that stemmed from many different abusive relationships that continuously put me down. I was longing to fit into a size 0 when I had a bone structure of a size 8. As a result, I was struggling with many eating disorders, anxiety, depression, and substance abuse throughout high school and Freshman year of college. By the middle of my sophomore year in college, I was burned out, had two DUI’s and at the verge of dropping out of college. It was at this point I decided to change majors from Nursing to Nutrition and Dietetics and minor in Buddhist studies. At the same time, I reached out for support from the University Counseling Center. From that point onwards, I started reflecting on what I did wrong up until that point in my life.

I’ve come a long way since then. I developed healthy eating habits, which eventually lead me to become a vegan. I quit drinking and researched meditation techniques, which helped me cope with anxiety and live in the now. I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who encouraged and supported my wellness journey. Many others aspire to find a lifestyle of wellness, which enables them to feel good mentally and physically. I am here to tell them that it’s possible and share the knowledge that helped me transform my life.

How Our Secrets Keep Us Sick

Pretty much every one of us knows that keeping secrets can be heavy, especially the kind that you have to hide from friends, family, and loved ones. It’s even worse when these secrets are the kind that destroys you, both physically and mentally. The kind of secrets I’m referring to is the secret addictions, many of us battle with day-in and day-out.

Drug addictions, in particular, are heavy secrets. When you keep these to yourself and don’t seek the support of people who matter to you, they can make you sick. The distance you from the people you care about.

Here are a few more reasons why you should not hold onto secrets that make you sick.

Admitting you have a problem makes relapse relatively less likely

Keeping your addiction a secret only makes it more likely that you sustain your damaging behaviors. This means there’s zero accountability for your actions, and it’s more difficult for you to sustain any motivation to get help.

By sharing your secret with someone you trust and someone who has your best interests at heart, the recovery journey is much easier because you have someone to confide in and someone who motivates you along the way.

With the right support, you can get professional help for drug addictions

Nowadays, there’s a phalanx of mental health and medical professionals you can speak to, including a Methadone doctor, who will help you in this process. They’re well-equipped to handle any kind of drug addiction, and if you’re an opioid addict, there are even opioid-based medications, like Methadone, that can help.

Methadone is an opioid agonist. This means that it reacts against the brain’s opioid receptors, blocking drug cravings, and dope sickness in recovering drug addicts. This allows them to recover without experiencing the debilitating effects of drug withdrawals.

One question many addiction specialists probably encounter is can you die from withdrawal.

In all likelihood, this is because withdrawal feels like death. This is particularly why drugs like Methadone are so effective in what they do, the help addicts get over their struggles without subjecting them to a brutal cleansing, which impacts both their mental and physical health.

Keeping these secrets can cost you your life

When no one knows what’s wrong, it’s much easier for you to live your own life – including one that’s highly risky and dangerous.

The problem with drug addiction is that it not only damages your health and wellbeing but has the potential to lead you down a path of crime and danger. You’re more likely to partake in risky activities.

When you confide in someone you trust, this person is more likely to prevent you from going down irreversible paths by guiding you and being a constant presence in your life. With a confidante, you have to take on a certain level of responsibility and accountability and actively commit to recovery.