Mar 13 2008
Recovery Should Include Consultative Life Coaching
You are at the point in your treatment when you are starting to feel better. You no longer have an uncontrolled compulsion to drink alcohol and you are doing pretty well physically. You have an appetite again and you can think more clearly than you have in years. You can actually smile again. By golly, you must be cured!
You believe you can get back to a normal lifestyle now that you have your drinking under control. You opted for medication to help curb your craving for alcohol and it worked better than you could have imagined.
Going back to the life you had is something you are looking forward to and you missed it.
Maybe your drinking problem was never as big a deal as you thought it was.
Be careful of that sort of thinking
There is a reason you ended up seeking treatment in the first place. All the same stressors and anxieties will be there waiting for you when you return to status quo. You’ve essentially healed your body at this point, but not your mind.
The feeling of euphoria you have when you can finally manage without a drink to fix things is like being unshackled after a prolonged confinement. You want to jump back into things with a new vim and vigor, you feel so much better and that’s fantastic. However what happens at the first sign of things not going the way you intended? Have you made the necessary alterations in your life to sustain a prolonged recovery?
Understanding the root causes of your abusive drinking will go a long way in assisting your overall recovery and long term happiness. Professional evaluation to determine your reasons for drinking in the first place will be beneficial in avoiding the same mistakes again in the future. Why potentially waste a perfectly good sobriety or drinking modification by not following through with a plan of consultative therapy or coaching to get you past the inevitable lows you will undoubtedly encounter post drinking?
Once you learn how to control your excessive drinking or you are feeling comfortable with total cessation, now is the perfect time to fully transform your life. You’ve made a commitment to change things about yourself that were potentially self destructive, and you are motivated by the dramatic change in your life. What better time to set goals for yourself and achieve the life you always wanted but were too busy just existing to invest in.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could discuss your life not only as it was before treatment, but also how you’d like it to be post drinking with a professional facilitator – a life coach whose sole purpose is to help design a life for you that you always wanted but never had?
Imagine have a life coach that’s someone who can identify with you and your experiences, someone whose life mission it is to make you and others like you reach your highest potential. Achieving well-being is something everyone would like, but unless they have a life altering event, they may well fail to realize this intention.
Your life coach would meet with you confidentially in person or by phone to formulate, implement and sustain your new vision for yourself. Helping you manage these changes and coping with life’s eventualities is their specialty.
It is not enough to just modify your drinking behavior to achieve total wellness for yourself. Medications are extremely useful to achieve your level of drinking moderation that you and your health care provider are comfortable with, however healing ones self emotionally is paramount to attaining lasting satisfaction and serenity in your life.
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