Benefits of Sober Living: 3 Uses of Staying at a Sober House
Making the decision to address your addictions and work towards sobriety can be exceptionally challenging, both physically and mentally. By confronting that you have an addiction, you have already achieved one of the hardest aspects of your journey toward a healthier and happier future. Staying at a sober house, or halfway house can be a key tool in your recovery.
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Access to a Support Network
One of the fundamental features of sober houses is the support networks they provide. Instead of feeling like a hospital or rehabilitation center, halfway houses are designed to replicate a home, providing a sense of comfort and familiarity. This is what makes it the perfect base upon which to build a support network that will assist you through your journey toward sobriety.
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5 Things Halfway Houses Offer
If you’ve struggled with addiction and want to get sober, chances are the thought of home can be quite daunting. After a long time in recovery, some are desperate to go home and get back to some type of normality, but others find it a bit more overwhelming.
For some, previous homes can be triggering and life in recovery can be difficult if you don’t have a strong support system around you. Even though many go through rigorous detoxes and participate in specialized programs, returning back home straight away can encourage relapsing.
This is why halfway houses are the perfect transitional spaces for addicts to recover, giving them the ideal balance between protection and freedom. This way, they can learn how to live independently free from drugs or alcohol […]
3 Power Tips to Continue Your Sober Journey
It’s not easy to get sober. In fact, it’s one of the most difficult things that someone can do. But once you’ve achieved sobriety, it’s important to do everything possible to maintain that sobriety. This can be tough, but with the right tools and support, you can make it happen. In this blog post, we will discuss three power tips for continuing your sober living journey!
Tip #1: Reach Out For Help
If you are finding that your sobriety is starting to feel a bit shaky, it’s time to reach out for help. This could mean reaching out to a sponsor or someone else in the program. It could also mean calling up a doctor or therapist for some support. These professionals can help you to get back on track and recommit to […]
Creating and Sticking to Routines in Recovery
In a world where it can feel like chaos is unending (perhaps even moreso since you got sober because of the clarity gained), routines can provide an enormous amount of comfort and stability. When drinking and using drugs, you might have had a hyper-structured schedule and may have used substances to find relief from the mundanity and tedium of that routine. Perhaps you had little to no routine, which enabled binge usage with very few parameters. Or maybe you had a safety net of routine when you were in a sober living and find independent living to be paralyzing when it comes to finding a daily rhythm. Whatever may be the case, it’s undeniable that routines (or lack thereof) can have a tremendous effect on how one uses or stays away from substances. Likewise, in recovery […]
Resolutions in Recovery
With a plethora of recent violent political unrest in the United States, many have joked that the spirit of 2020–a year of everything unexpected and wildly unprecedented–is very much alive in 2021. While you may be powerless over external circumstances, you are very much in control of how you choose to go about navigating your internal circumstances and recovery. Whether you love resolutions or stray far from the word and those who insist on announcing theirs to everyone, it’s not a bad idea to check in on where you were last year (emotionally, mentally, spiritually, physically, recovery-wise) and how you would like to proceed in 2021.
Challenges in 2021
In your drinking and drugging days, how many times would you resolve to not use, use less, or only use in certain socially acceptable situations? […]
When Queerness and Sobriety Meet
“Sobriety is a queer issue. In a world full of hardships, distractions, and escapes, to be clear, to be awake, and to be focused, makes one queer…Sobriety as radical queer practice has the potential to be truly socially and politically transformative,” writes Dr. Jen Manion in her brilliant op-ed “The Queer Politics of Sobriety.” To some, sobriety is simple: you abstain from alcohol and drugs and proceed as normal, no longer shackled to the substances and accoutrements that seemed like friends. To others, sobriety is far more complicated and expansive, defined by more than simply choosing not to do something. Likewise, one’s gender identity and sexuality can be just as complicated, nuanced, and (what feels like) a moving target at times (if a target at all). Perhaps […]