Navigating Successful Transitions: How Self-Awareness Reconnects Clients Post-Treatment

Change is difficult. However, when a client is recovering from addiction, they need to make many changes in their lives in order to transition into life without substance abuse or addictive behaviors. Self-awareness helps clients connect with themselves, supports their needs in treatment and post-treatment, and provides them with the information to navigate these changes successfully. At Reviving You Recovery, clients improve their awareness through breathwork, mindfulness, and therapy. With support, clients can learn to improve their awareness as a way towards successfully sustained recovery and a revitalized life.

Transitions Post-Treatment

During addiction treatment, clients go through many transitions, both internally and externally. Clients begin to see what aspects of their lives and themselves are impacting their challenges with addiction and learn that these will need to change in order to recover from addiction long-term.

However, transitions do not stop when treatment is over. There are many transitions post-treatment that are equally as important on the path to building a new life after treatment. Transitions post-treatment often include aspects of a client’s life that were not addressed in treatment. This can be due to the lack of time to do so. However, it is also a result of the immense amount of changes that need to occur. As a result, not everything can be addressed during the span of treatment. Therefore, clients will need the skills to successfully transition post-treatment.

Building Awareness in Treatment

Treatment at Reviving You Recovery incorporates skills that will allow clients to make transitions post-treatment. Awareness is a foundational skill that is incorporated into every aspect of change. As such, it is prioritized. Clients learn to build awareness in many aspects of treatment.

When a client is going through treatment, almost every treatment modality incorporates awareness. This is because awareness is the skill of perceiving what is currently occurring. In addiction treatment, this can look like sensing emotions, considering patterns that contribute to addiction, or acknowledging priorities.

At Reviving You Recovery, clients learn the foundation of awareness in breathwork and mindfulness practices. However, they are encouraged to continue the skills of awareness through other aspects of treatment. This includes individual and group therapy, where clients are asked to be aware of themselves at the moment and build skills that will aid them in being successful in their recovery post-treatment.

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Importance of Self-Awareness Post-Treatment

Addiction is known to be associated with a lack of self-awareness. This means that clients commonly come into treatment without the skill. Building self-awareness, however, is integral to successful post-treatment. This is due to the importance of self-awareness in integrating changes and managing challenges that naturally occur after treatment.

Integrating Changes

Post-treatment clients need to integrate the changes that they have learned during treatment into their lives. The integration of these changes allows them to build a new life that is free from the patterns that have contributed to their challenges with addiction. Clients who successfully integrate these changes learn to live their daily lives in a way that is unlike their past and, therefore, are more successful post-treatment.

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However, integrating changing post-treatment is difficult. Awareness is a foundation skill that aids clients in doing so. Clients with low self-awareness are less likely to continue treatment and post-treatment strategies that aid in their recovery. When clients have improved self-awareness, they are in touch with themselves. As a result, they have the information that is necessary to see what changes need to be made and how they have impacted them. This allows clients to integrate changes in a manner that is effective for their unique needs in recovery.

Managing Challenges

Every individual’s path post-treatment is unique. However, a common piece of this journey is challenges. Each client will run up against parts of their lives that can derail them. Knowing how to manage these challenges when they come along is vital.

Awareness helps clients see when they are beginning to steer off of the path to recovery. This includes being aware of their emotional state, cravings, relationships, and more. As a result, awareness helps clients to manage these challenges in the moment. In addition, clients with higher self-awareness have more knowledge of the specifics of their issues and, as such, can take action to remedy these challenges more effectively.

Discovering Success Post-Treatment

Treatment for addiction is the first step in a client turning their life around. Post-treatment, clients will utilize the skills learned in treatment to revitalize their lives. However, self-awareness is a skill that not only helps clients to be successful post-treatment but also helps them discover when they are successful. When a client is self-aware, they will feel and see differences in their lives. This may include noticing different emotions cropping up, seeing that relationships have improved, or seeing themselves take different paths when challenges arise.

Recovery is an ongoing process. Individuals who struggle with addiction begin this path in treatment, where they learn a variety of skills that help them to be successful in recovery. Awareness is a skill that, at Reviving You Recovery, we believe facilitates change both in treatment and post-treatment. We help clients to build awareness in order to make changes and be more in tune with themselves. As a result, our clients can return to their lives with the necessary skills to rejuvenate their lives. If you are interested in learning more about our treatment facility or treatment options, call us today at (951) 723-7598 to speak with a staff member.