Recovery Coaching can help you navigate the mine field of triggers in early recovery without relapsing. Someone who is right there when you feel like giving up. This is what is missing in most treatment options available now.
What’s a trigger?
- You are on your way to the store and you run into your old dealer.
- You have a command performance at the company cocktail party where the booze is flowing.
- You are bored and surfing your phone and a gambling site pops up.
- A friend drops by and offers you a treat.
Absolutely nothing unusual is happening but your brain turns on the “let’s use” channel. Slips happen in a split second and often for no apparent reason. The object of your addiction appears, and without pause it is consumed.
If you’ve been engaging with your problem substance or behaviour for years, your brain has physically altered (neuroplasticity), so that each time something resembles a cue for using, cravings kick in. This takes time to change.
Relapse often happens right after a residential treatment experience and can be devastating. A Recovery Coach would be accessible to you in that in that moment, witnessing and helping you to resist the slippery slope.
How does Recovery Coaching help?
A coach can “live in”, assisting you in practicing your new life style, prepare meals with you, help you watch your stated boundaries around work and interactions with others, go to meetings, groups and appointments with you and be there for you to keep you safe in the early days. Or, a Recovery Coach can be accessible all the time by phone, text or face time.
Your coach can accompany you anywhere and knows how to blend in discretely, whether in a suit in your office or plus fours on the green. They are there to keep you safe from you especially if you must do recovery while you do life.
As we’ve said, your Sober Coach has been there, done that. You can be completely honest with them and they are harder to manipulate than your own tricky brain.