Lighthouse Recovery Texas offers various alumni services designed to help clients maintain healthy behaviors and routines during aftercare. You do not have to navigate long-term recovery on your own. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), “Recovery is characterized by continual growth and improvement in one’s health and wellness and managing setbacks.” Recovery coaching can reduce the risk of relapse. You can continue to receive the support you need to make essential lifestyle changes during aftercare by taking advantage of recovery coaching and other services.
How Recovery Coaching Can Improve Recovery
Recovery coaching is one of the extended care programs offered at Lighthouse Recovery Texas. Most clients participate in the program for six to twelve months during aftercare. You can take advantage of the program for as long as it takes to feel confident in maintaining sobriety.
Recovery coaching offers clients the following:
- Compassion
- Empathy
- Accountability
- Goal setting
- Peer engagement
- Family support services
- Frequent check-ins
- Regular drug testing
The service is designed to help you stay motivated and move forward in your recovery journey. Your support system is essential to long-term sobriety. Coaching programs provide additional social support, mentorships, and a safe space to practice life skills. The program and services are tailored to meet your individual needs during early recovery.
Recovery Coaching Can Help Clients Maintain Healthy Lifestyle Changes
The goal of treatment is to encourage positive lifestyle changes. According to Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, “The impact that lifestyle balance can have on SUD cannot be overstated.” For example, “aspects of lifestyle balance, such as stable employment, relationships, and accommodation, are likely to strengthen a person’s resilience to prevent or overcome substance use difficulties.” A recovery coach can help you find ways to increase your lifestyle balance.
You learn to establish healthy boundaries, routines, and behaviors during treatment. However, many people struggle to maintain lifestyle changes after returning home. Some people find it difficult not to fall back into old behaviors once they return to a familiar environment.
Recovery coaching is one way to reduce the risk of returning to unwanted behaviors. A coach will do the following:
- Inspire and motivate positive lifestyle changes
- Provide guidance on how to overcome challenges
- Alert clients if they begin to fall back into unhealthy patterns of thoughts or behavior
- Help clients set realistic goals
- Hold clients accountable for their actions
Coaching also ensures you feel confident in your abilities before transitioning to truly independent sobriety. Treatment and aftercare often come with unexpected challenges; having a care team to help you navigate them can make all the difference. Recovery coaching also provides additional accountability. Your coach will help you continue making positive lifestyle changes that support your ongoing recovery after you transition out of treatment.
Referral to Lighthouse Recovery Texas
Programs and facilities around the country refer clients to Lighthouse Recovery Texas to reduce the risk of relapse and help clients build healthy routines. If you need additional support before transitioning into continuing care, attending one of the programs at Lighthouse Recovery Texas can ensure you have the resources and tools to continue making progress in your recovery.
How Recovery Coaching Can Reduce the Risk of Relapse
Substance abuse treatment at Lighthouse Recovery Texas involves individualized care plans and aftercare support services that significantly reduce the risk of relapse. After completing addiction rehab, you can benefit from remaining in contact with the support team or transitioning into a sober living community. Most people who participate in coaching have gone through multiple levels of care and benefit from the extended services.
Recovery coaching reduces the risk of relapse by doing the following:
- Providing a space where you can feel comfortable expressing yourself and asking for help
- Teaching you valuable life lessons and additional coping skills
- Ensuring you feel fully confident in your ability to cope with daily stressors
You can benefit from spending time in a space where there is a lower risk of being triggered. Substances are not allowed within sober living houses, and every person in the community is held accountable for their actions through drug screenings and regular check-ins with the staff. The sober living program is a great way to increase your independence while still having access to additional peer support. In most cases, people who have been in the program longer mentor individuals new to recovery.
Managing Triggers and Stress Responses During Aftercare
Stress is a common response to unexpected situations, and many people with SUD have difficulty coping with stressors. Treatment and aftercare services will provide you with the tools and resources you need to manage triggers and stress. Recovery coaching is one of the extended care services offered at Lighthouse Recovery Texas. You can use it to reinforce positive routines and reduce the risk of relapse.
Many people who participate in addiction treatment experience some form of relapse. However, alumni who take advantage of aftercare and extended services like recovery coaching can reduce their risk of relapse. You can further develop your coping skills and establish new routines by taking advantage of recovery coaching, where you work with peers and the care team to cement the skills you learned in treatment. Lighthouse Recovery Texas offers every client access to extended support to improve their treatment outcome. After completing treatment, you can take advantage of these services for as long as you need to feel confident in your sobriety. To learn more about our recovery coaching and treatment programs, call our office today at (214) 396-0259.
