Addictions Counselling

Recovery Counselling focuses on 'emotional recovery' - the 2nd stage of recovery - after active addiction has stopped

Addiction recovery is a major process of psychological readjustment.  This transition time can be filled with a lot of personal growth as well as emotional obstacles.  Many people struggle in the first few months and years of recovery to find their comfort zone.  However, it is not your destiny to ride an emotional roller coaster.   With the right support, strategies, skills and motivation, your pain and uncertainty can be replaced by a sense of balance, calm and fulfillment.  Addictions counselling can be a vital source of help to get you moving in the right direction quickly during this time!

You can leave the pain of addiction behind and finally be at peace with yourself and your loved ones!

Recovery Counselling Solutions helps people just like you transcend addiction and achieve a fuller recovery, so you can feel more emotionally resilient and satisfied with life and love, work and play.  Help Is Available Now!  Don't lose another day feeling stressed, confused, dissatisfied, isolated or adrift in your recovery from alcohol, drugs or addictive behaviours.   
     
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'Emotional Recovery' Is Essential To Recovery From Addictions!

You have worked hard to achieve recovery from addiction, and should feel good.  You’ve stuck to your goal of leaving addictive behaviours behind and embracing life to the fullest.  But something’s missing.  Some days you can see you are making great progress and feel at peace.  Other days, you are anxious, irritated or feel lost.  You may feel isolated from others.  Or you might find yourself feeling empty, sad or unfulfilled.  Perhaps you are struggling with your relationships or your job.  It’s frustrating and maybe a little scary.  You know you don’t want to relapse, or replace one compulsive habit with another.  What you aren’t sure about is how to make your addiction recovery the success you know it can be.

Addictions Counselling Can Lead To 'Emotional Recovery'

A lack of 'emotional recovery' skills, stemming from unresolved past hurts or traumas and reinforced by negative beliefs, tend to be the main reasons people have these challenges in recovery.  Emotional recovery skills - aka 'emotional sobriety' - include the ability to calm oneself when distressed, to tolerate intense feelings, to stay on an even keel mood-wise, to develop solid relationship bonds, and to achieve overall balance in life between the body, mind and spirit.  When these skills are not nurtured in childhood, or people experience harm, they may turn to alcohol, drugs, food, sex or gambling to try and restore a sense of calm and contentment that is difficult to achieve on their own.  Developing emotional recovery skills is critical to achieving stability between moods, thoughts, behaviours and appetites.  Learning to accept emotions and reframing pessimistic thinking, without responding in counter-productive ways, such as numbing feelings or self-medicating with substances or compulsive behaviours, is the foundation of recovery from addiction.  The good news is that addiction counselling can help you gain the emotional sobriety skills that will make your recovery a lasting success!

Addictions Counselling resulting in Emotional Recovery can help you gain psychological balance, a positive perspective and healthy coping skills in the following ways:

• Dealing effectively with emotional ups and downs as they occur
• Overcoming negative thought patterns or belief systems that are holding you back
• Resolving childhood wounds caused by abuse, negligence or inadequate parenting
• Learning techniques to stay calm and feel resilient during times of stress
• Forging healthy relationships and a sense of community
• Rebounding more quickly from grief and loss experiences
• Finding meaningful activities, work, hobbies and passions 
• Developing inner strength, and learning to enjoy quiet restorative time, such as meditation or spiritual pursuits 
• Maintaining physical health based on exercise, rest and nutrition
  

How would it feel to find solutions that make your hopes and dreams for your addiction recovery a reality now?  You don’t have to wait to start enjoying the security and peace of mind that comes from living a life full of meaning and contentment.

For more information click here to read my article  Emotional Sobriety: The Golden Key To Addiction Recovery

Recovery Counselling Solutions is located in Vancouver, BC.  Glynis Sherwood provides addictions Addiction Telephone Counselling & Coaching across North America, and In-person Addictions Counselling to Vancouver and Lower Mainland communities including West Vancouver, North Vancouver, Burnaby, Richmond, Port Moody, Delta and Surrey.

Recovery Counselling Solutions offers addictions counseling & coaching for drug and alcohol substance abuse and addictive behaviours; anxiety and depression;  trauma; and grief and loss issues.

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