Recovery After Rehab: A Guide for the Newly Sober and Their Loved Ones by Joseph Nowinski

Author:Joseph Nowinski [Nowinski, Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781538142523
Google: 2S--zQEACAAJ
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2021-07-02T23:45:55.157927+00:00

The above recovery plan worked for Martin. To his credit he took his family’s concerns and his doctors’ warnings to heart and was willing to work collaboratively with them.

Sarah’s situation was somewhat more challenging as she did not have either a spouse or children living with her that she could readily collaborate with. In her case she chose to work with a therapist to collaboratively make changes in places and routines so as to create lifestyle changes that would support her desire to stay sober. To begin, she had to admit that as much as she liked her three favorite restaurants, there were others close enough to her condo that she could replace them with. In fact, to her pleasant surprise she found two that she liked even better! Meeting weekly with her therapist, she also was able to open up about some other issues, such as how isolated her life had become outside work, how she really desired more contact with her children but was hesitant to ask for it, and how it was she and not her boyfriend who maintained the distance in their relationship. Some of these issues contributed to the limited lifestyle that Sarah lived, and none of them was easy to work on. But with the support of her therapist she chipped away at them. One additional change she made in terms of places and routines was to join a fitness center. She began going there three days a week after work instead of heading straight to a restaurant or home for her TV and wine. She soon found that exercising, losing a bit of weight, sleeping better, and feeling more energetic made her less interested in drinking wine at night. There were now nights when she did not drink at all; and on those increasingly rare occasions when she did drink, it tended to be one glass rather that two or three.

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