Browsing Archive: September, 2009
As the Addiction Recovery Month of September winds down and autumn gears up, it's a good idea to take stalk of how you have used this time in service of your recovery. It being harvest time, the theme is 'reap what you sow'. How are you feeling about your recovery? Do you feel a sense of progress or do you feel you have let yourself down? Have you stayed true to your vision for your life, or let addiction continue to call the shots? Are your health and relationships stronger because of ... Continue reading ...
Today's final Step #11 concludes this series of basic
but powerful strategies for achieving addiction recovery. The entire article can be downloaded for free from the Articles page of my website. I invite you to use these
steps and strategies to help guide you to a solid recovery.
Step 11 - Get Ongoing Support. Addiction causes isolation. Most people in recovery believe that finding community is critical to healing. Whether in a group, through counselling or with recovery buddies, you can... Continue reading ...
We are moving towards the finish line with Step 10 of 11 basic
but powerful strategies for achieving addiction recovery. The final recovery Step - # 11 will be posted September 18th. Use these
steps and strategies to help guide you to a solid recovery.
Step 10 - Rebuild your relationships. Addiction hurts the ones you love. In your important relationships there is likely - at best – strain, loss of trust and poor communication, and – at worse – breakups, separation or divorce. Apologi... Continue reading ...
Today's post is Step 9 of 11 basic
but powerful strategies for achieving addiction recovery. Look for a
Recovery Step and Strategy every day through September 18th. Use these
steps and strategies to help guide you to a solid recovery.
Step 9 - Get counselling for psychological distress. Many people engage in addictive behaviours to ‘self-medicate’, i.e. escape painful emotions, moods, memories, grief, loss, relationships or symptoms of trauma. You may find yourself feeling anxious, sad,... Continue reading ...
Continue your Recovery journey with Step 8 of 11 basic but powerful strategies for achieving addiction recovery. Look for a Recovery Step and Strategy every day through September 18th. Use these steps and stategies to help guide you to a solid recovery.Step 8 - Understand Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS). If you were a former substance abuser, you are now healing from the toxic effects of mood altering drugs on your body and brain. You may experience uncomfortable symptoms as you begi... Continue reading ...
Your Recovery journey continues with Step 7 of 11 basic but powerful strategies for achieving addiction recovery. Look for a Recovery Step and Strategy every day through September 18th. Use these steps and strategies to help guide you to a solid recovery.Step 7 - Take care of your health. Addictive behaviours, especially substance abuse, deplete your body of vital energy, as well as compromise your physical and psychological well being. You may be suffering from malnutrition and exhaustion... Continue reading ...
The Recovery journey continues with Step 6 of 11 basic but powerful strategies for achieving addiction recovery. Look for a Recovery Step and Strategy every day through September 18th. Use these steps and strategies to help guide you to a solid recovery.Step 6 - Stop secondary addictive behaviours such as smoking, binge-eating, gambling, other drugs, internet obsession, etc. Research shows that people who stop the addictive process completely – rather than dealing with one substance or be... Continue reading ...
This post is a day late due to a computer crash. Will catch up! Continuing my series of daily posts, today's Step is # 5 of 11 basic but powerful strategies for achieving addiction recovery. Look for a Recovery Step and Strategy every day through September 17th. Use these steps and strategies to help guide you to a solid recovery.Step 5 - Be on the alert for denial, minimizing, overconfidence and other forms of addictive thinking. Once you have some recovery time and start to feel better,... Continue reading ...
Continuing on with my series of daily posts, today I am posting Step 4 of 11 basic but powerful strategies for achieving addiction recovery. Look for a Recovery Step and Strategy every day through September 17th. Use these steps and strategies to help guide you to a solid recovery.
Step 4 - Create
a Relapse Prevention Plan. Identify your triggers and high risk
situations. Triggers can be any
emotions, thoughts, beliefs, actions, relationships or situations that
make you ... Continue reading ...
Yesterday I posted Step 2 of 11 basic but powerful strategies for achieving addiction recovery. Today I am posting Step 3. Look for a Recovery Step and Strategy per day through September 17th. Use these steps and strategies to help guide you to a solid recovery.
Step 3 - Connect with formal recovery supports. If you need medical detox, make arrangements with an addiction doctor or nurse. This is particularly critical for withdrawal from alcohol and benzodiazepines (tranquilizers), which i... Continue reading ...
Following on the heels of yesterday's post is Step 2 of 11 basic but ... Continue reading ...
Successful recovery from addiction – whether substance abuse or compulsive behaviour – is built on a strong foundation of personal goals, dreams and commitment – not luck or willpower. It takes self awareness, good decision making skills, plans, discipline and determination. Over the next 11 days I will be posting 11 basic but powerful strategies for achieving addiction recovery, starting with Step 1 today. Use these steps and strategies to help guide you to solid recovery.
Step 1. ... Continue reading ...
Recovery is an empowering journey that moves people from the margins and back into life with renewed purpose and confidence. Tim Powers, Coulee Council on Addictions, Wisconsin, USA
September is National Recovery Month in the US. Here in Canada we can benefit from the spirit of that example. As the soothing and carefree balm of summer weekends and vacations - aka 'sunshine therapy' - slip away, and people step back into the faster pace of the 'unofficial' start of the new year, what can be... Continue reading ...
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About Glynis Sherwood - MEd Counselling
Canadian Certified Counsellor
Certified Addictions Counsellor
| Recovery Counsellor, Coach & Consultant |
| Vancouver, Canada |
With a twenty year history of counselling and consulting experience, I help people recover from addictions, stress, anxiety, depression, abuse, trauma, grief and loss and workplace bullying. My company - Recovery Counselling Solutions - offers specialized services designed to help people overcome these life challenges. ‘Recovery Counselling’ focuses on healing the psychological distress of individuals and their loved ones, and helps restore and strengthen psychological well being and recovery-related lifestyles. I provide counselling, coaching and consulting at my office in central Vancouver, and across North America by telephone. My belief is that no matter how harmful psychological challenges or addictions have been in your life, you can recover and live a life of joy, fufillment and purpose!
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