Reviving You Recovery
Menifee, CA | Addiction Treatment Center
Helping Clients Find Worth in Addiction Treatment
Many people struggle to find their self-worth from time to time. Finding worth is a quintessential part of living a peaceful and fulfilled life. The iconic Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh once said, “People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.” This is emblematic of the struggles people have finding worth in their addiction treatment and recovery. They often remain in the feelings of loneliness, uselessness, and worthlessness that they experienced in active addiction. This mindset must be shifted if they are to truly and fundamentally heal.
Combatting the Feelings of Worthlessness, Loneliness, and Hopelessness in Active Addiction
There is a term often used in recovery to describe the way that people feel in active addiction. That term is “terminal uniqueness.” Terminal uniqueness is the feeling that “no one else in the world could be experiencing the same emotions as I do in my addiction.”
In recovery, we find that not to be the case at all. Individuals soon discover that there is a bond shared by people who struggle with addiction via something known as “shared experience.” This shared experience refers to the similar emotions that people struggle with in active addiction. Yes, the details of people’s stories may differ, but the emotions they feel rarely are. One of these emotions is worthlessness.
What Does It Mean to Find Worth in Addiction Treatment?
The ability to find worth in addiction treatment is critical if one is to attain long-term recovery. Finding worth can mean many things. It can mean that someone rediscovers that they can be useful on a day-to-day basis. This may seem simple, but it is important to remember that many of these attentive skills were long overshadowed by drinking and using in active addiction.
Finding worth in addiction treatment also means finding one’s emotional worth. This means that one needs to work to get to the underlying emotional issues of their addiction. As is said in many recovery communities, “The alcohol and drugs are but a symptom of what is really going on.”
For many, finding worth in addiction treatment also involves claiming or reclaiming a sense of spirituality. This is not to be confused with religion (though, for some, this may be the case). Instead, it has to do with finding a sense of peace with the surrounding world. Many people find this cultivation of spirituality the cornerstone of their recovery. Others utilize it to re-establish a sense of worth in the world and their sense of meaning.
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How to Help a Client Find Worth in Addiction Treatment
Finding worth in addiction treatment can start slow. It can start by once again becoming useful to oneself and others. This may be as simple (and literal) as making the bed or helping someone else with morning chores.
Helping a client find worth in their recovery can also come from utilizing various types of treatment modalities. These can range from the psychotherapeutic to the experiential to the holistic. These specific treatments might include cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), art therapy, drama therapy, journaling, mindfulness meditation, and yoga.
Another way to help a client find worth in addiction treatment is to help them establish goals for when they leave treatment. This is also an essential tool for assisting individuals to attain long-term recovery.
Helping a Client Find Worth in Long-Term Recovery
Finding worth in addiction treatment is one thing, but being able to hold onto that worth after leaving treatment is something else altogether. This is why establishing long-term recovery plans while still in treatment is crucial.
This may include integrating individuals into an outside recovery community while still in treatment. Doing this can help them stay connected to their recovery plan because they will be accountable to other people and specific recovery groups. These groups are also ideal ways to maintain worth because they allow the individual to show that worth as they help others with their own stories of recovery. As is said, “Recovery is a WE program, not a ME program.”
Sometimes, this also includes aftercare, such as a stay in a sober living facility. This allows the individual more time to work on their worth as they slowly, safely, and comfortably integrate back into their day-to-day lives.
The Client Is Always Worth It at Reviving You Recovery
At Reviving You Recovery, we believe in long-term recovery over short-term “fixes.” We also vehemently believe that worth is essential to whole mind-body recovery.
Thich Nhat Hanh also famously said, “Every step we make can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity.” At Reviving You Recovery, we are excited to help each and every one of those steps toward a new and fulfilled life.
Addiction is a disease that often erodes clients’ self-worth. The emotion-focused treatment at Reviving You Recovery is helping clients shift this mindset and find a new more positive sense of self. It is critical that clients find a sense of self-worth in recovery. Doing so can best ensure that they will stick close to a recovery plan, avoid relapse, and see it through to the long-term. For more information on how positive emotions, like rays of sunlight breaking through a clouded sky, have the power to uplift our spirits and bring us closer to a sense of purpose and fulfillment, please reach out to Reviving You Recovery today at (951) 723-7598.
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