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Life Skills Rehab Therapy

Life Skills Rehab at Bayview Recovery

An individual can fall prey to addiction if the challenges they face in their life exceed their ability to cope with them. As a result, they may begin to use drugs and alcohol to relieve the excess anger, stress, frustration and fear they feel but have no other healthier means of dealing with. Individuals may have strong skills in some areas of their life but weaker ones in others which still leave them vulnerable. Substances become they way they deal with these short-comings.

Once an individual begins using drugs and alcohol on a regular basis, their dependency can start to erode their other coping skills, including their ability to provide themselves with adequate self-care. This can create a vicious cycle where people feel increasingly unable to handle the demands of everyday life, use more drugs and create more problems with which they must deal. The only way to end their reliance on drugs and alcohol and rebuild healthy life skills is in a professional rehab program like Bayview Recovery.

Life Skills Crucial to Emotional and Social Health

Life Skills rehab focuses on teaching recovering clients how to handle recurring situations which can be challenging for anyone. By providing clients with ways to reduce their stress and build their confidence, Bayview Review can help them create the foundation for a lasting recovery. Some of the areas of focus in our Life Skills rehab program include:

Interpersonal Interactions

The ability to connect with other people is essential to a fulfilling life, promotes a sense of peace and also helps build confidence. Yet addicts often lose this ability because drugs have eroded their self-confidence and replaced it with shame. Relearning essential social practices — such as making introductions and participating in conversations — can help recovering individuals re-engage socially, creating opportunities for positive experiences, enhancing their self-worth and self-perception and mitigating their needs for drugs and alcohol.

Independent Living

A healthy home life can sustain an individual’s recovery by removing stressors which they would otherwise encounter on a daily basis. When an individual suffers from addiction, caring for the home and one’s person can easily fall to the wayside, and it can create constant stress and anxiety, helping to sustain unhealthy habits. Regaining an appreciation for a healthy home is not only a form of self-care but also can enable individuals to focus on their wellbeing in other aspects of their life.

Stress Management

While all of the life skills clients will learn at Bayview Recovery will help them sustain your sobriety, possibly none are more important than the skills they’ll learn to manage stress. For many individuals, their addiction problems probably began as a reaction to stress. Unsurprisingly, unmanaged stress can be one of the most significant contributors to relapse. Rehab can’t eliminate the stress you will encounter in everyday life, but it can help individuals handle that stress in healthy ways so that you won’t need drugs and alcohol to cope.

Anger Management

Anger, a natural and common emotion, is often about feeling a lack of control or frustration about things “not being right,” and life can present individuals with many triggers for anger on a daily basis. When anger becomes persistent or out-of-proportion, however, the need to control this emotion can often lead to drugs and alcohol as a way to seek relief. Because anger can be so destructive, having healthy, productive ways to manage this emotion is essential for anyone and especially for those in recovery.

Bayview Recovery gives its clients the opportunity to practice life skills — not just read or talk about them. And whatever form of treatment our clients have here will incorporate life skills training into their rehab experience to ensure they leave our campus prepared and confident.

How Improving Life Skills Can Help Prevent Relapse

The goal of rehab is long-term sobriety which is achieved by preventing relapse. Ending your drug dependency is the first crucial step toward sobriety, but it is not the only step. To stay sober, you need to have the life skills that will allow you to safely transition back to your home life and face the challenges that are inevitable after rehab. Bayview Recovery can help you identify and practice skills so you can go home confidently.

However, even if you experience a relapse, you can continue your recovery with support. Relapse is not the end of your recovery journey. In many cases, a relapse can point to critical areas where more skill building is needed, allowing you to achieve a more complete and lasting recovery. Some of the skills which you will learn at Bayview Recovery include:

  • Emphasis on fitness and nutrition
  • Structuring a stable and predictable home environment
  • Building independence through continuous employment and sound money-management
  • Developing peer relationships and friendships
  • Improving interpersonal skills
  • Focusing on mental and physical health with the help of a professional-crafted and personalized plan

Life Skill Rehab at Bayview Recovery Can Give You the Tools You Need for Long-term Recovery

Bayview Recovery can provide you with the skills you will need to end your chemical dependency and sustain your sobriety. You may not know where to begin, but you won’t have to go it alone. Our highly-qualified counselors have experience helping individuals from diverse backgrounds get the treatment modalities that best match their needs so they can get healthy quickly and enjoy a lengthy sobriety. Our treatment modalities include:

  • Individual therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Trauma therapy
  • Mindfulness, meditation and yoga
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Dialectical behavioral therapy

Further, Bayview Recovery’s comfortable, home-like setting take away the stress and distraction that can get in the way of the recovery process. When you can relax and have all your needs met, you can recover more quickly.

Call Bayview Recovery today at 888.570.7154 to begin your journey to recovery. You don’t have to continue to suffer from addiction. Bayview Recovery can help.

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