Understanding Your Communication Style for Sustained Recovery
Communication is an essential aspect of recovery and life in general. The act of communicating allows you to convey your thoughts, feelings, and emotions. However, not everyone communicates the same way, so understanding your communication style can be key to building healthy relationships in both personal and professional environments. This knowledge can greatly benefit you […]
Overview of Real Recovery’s Relapse Policy
At Real Recovery, we are fully committed to assisting our residents to maintain abstinence and develop a healthy and independent lifestyle. To influence this standpoint, we have various rules and a relapse policy in place. These policies are not meant to be punitive but to help you maintain accountability for your actions during your sober […]
Add These 10 Coping Tools to Your Addiction Recovery Toolbox
Throughout your treatment process, you have likely gained a variety of coping skills to help you manage your substance use disorder (SUD). You may feel comfortable applying these skills in the treatment setting. However, it can be difficult to continue to use these skills in your newfound life outside of treatment. It is often necessary […]
Everything You Need to Know About Getting Back Into the Workforce
Getting back into the workforce after treatment can seem daunting. How do you explain to your employer why you were gone? How do you manage stress? How do you explain gaps in your resume? These questions can seem frightening and it might be tempting to ignore the idea of working again completely. However, stable employment […]
September Is National Recovery Month
This September, Real Recovery is celebrating National Recovery Month. This month, also called National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Awareness Month, is dedicated to spreading awareness about those in recovery and those actively struggling with alcohol and drug addiction. Spreading awareness about addiction and recovery educates those who believe the stigmas and negative stereotypes perpetuated by […]
Our Three Phased Approach to Sober Living
Recovery can be difficult without structure. Fortunately, Real Recovery provides and emphasizes structure throughout the sober living process. In this article, the three phases of sober living are discussed, as well as the expectations of residents in each phase. Expectations may include things such as the number of 12-Step meetings that should be attended, what […]
Learning How to Live Again After Addiction
When you are struggling with addiction, your life is torn apart. Addiction creates a pattern of living life in crisis. Instead of moving forward, you are usually focused solely on surviving to the next day. While dealing with addiction, you may put your entire existence on the backburner while substance use takes over every decision […]
Living With a Co-occurring Disorder in Recovery
Each person’s recovery journey is unique. For some, recovery includes the extra challenge of managing one or more co-occurring mental health disorders in addition to addiction recovery. While this can create additional challenges, many of the treatments are actually similar or even the same. Living with a co-occurring disorder does not have to be a […]
Making Your Own Relapse Prevention Plan
Have you ever worked really hard for something, only to see it slip through your fingers? When you have done the difficult work to detox and become sober, the last thing you want to do is relapse. Yet about half of people who seek treatment for substance use disorder do relapse within the first year. […]
10 Ways Men Can Ask For Help in Recovery
There is a stereotype surrounding men that claims they do not ask for help. Whether or not that is true for you, you need all the help you can get in recovery. Learning to ask for the help you need is an integral part of the recovery process. There are many different ways to ask […]