Life Skills Training Explained
When you are addicted to drugs or alcohol, your life is completely centered around obtaining, using, and recovering from your substance of choice. Unfortunately, this can create a ripple effect of consequences for your daily life. Many people in early recovery may struggle with tasks like financial management, job hunting, and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. At Ascend Recovery Centers, we help our residents through extensive life skills training, which equips them with the tools to succeed after treatment.
Life skills training may take several forms. At Ascend Recovery Centers, we provide group sessions in which individuals learn to improve in many different areas: mentally, physically, spiritually, and socially. Our biopsychosocial approach ensures that clients create a healthy, functional lifestyle for themselves after treatment has concluded.
- Financial wellness: this area is of particular importance for those in early recovery. Addiction is an extremely expensive affliction that can create significant debt and financial difficulty. In life skills training, we help clients manage the costs associated with their past substance use – including legal fees, out-of-pocket medical expenses, and increased insurance rates – and build a plan for future financial responsibility.
- Mental clarity: if a person is addicted to drugs or alcohol, their priorities have been significantly impacted by substance use. Often, drinking or drugging is all they can think about. Life skills training restores a sense of focus and balance in one’s inner life.
- Social skills: many people turn to substance use to facilitate their social life; they may feel that drugs or alcohol lessen their insecurities or anxieties in public settings. In life skills training, clients learn important social and professional communication skills that eliminate the desire to drink or drugs to cope with daily life.
- Physical fitness: substance use can destroy a person’s physical health, resulting in significant weight loss, increased toxins, and malnutrition. At Beach House, we teach our clients to put physical well-being at the center of their lives, ensuring that proper nutrition, sleeping habits, and exercise become a high priority in their recovery.
Achieve Your Long-Term Treatment Goals
In our years of experience, we have found that comprehensive life skills training contributes to a higher chance of sustained recovery. At Ascend Recovery Centers, you will receive the diverse skill set necessary to hit the one-year mark (and many milestones beyond).
