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Living in recovery is not always as easy as you think! Our Christian alcohol rehab can help you grasp the “living life sober” concepts through our forum!
Sober recovery; Living life sober; Life in recovery; this all sounds great, right? Well, what does it mean? What does it mean to be living in recovery? Who are all these people in recovery, and how did they get there? Here at our Christian Drug & Alcohol Treatment Centers, we know how hard it is to change your life 100%, so one of the services we provide is education on relapse and recovery, as well as sober recovery forums. When participating in a sober recovery forum, you will benefit from other patients and their stories of recovery. We encourage you to add your sober recovery stories as well to help others who may be struggling. If you are a woman, you will meet other women in recovery to see how they have balanced home life, work and recovery. Women have unique needs and we are sensitive to those needs. |
If you are a woman, you will meet other Christian women in recovery to see how they have balanced home life, work and recovery. Women have unique needs and we are sensitive to those needs.
It is not easy to change your life, your habits and your friends. You will need Christian friends in recovery. Friends who can understand and support you. Friends who understand relapse in recovery and the importance of total honesty in recovery. Being in recovery from an addiction is a unique experience. It’s also one of the hardest and most rewarding experiences you will ever have.
Recovery and relapse are often lumped together in people’s minds. Relapse does not have to be a part of recovery but it can be. Especially with the issue of alcohol. People often think that it will be easy to stay away from liquor. Liquor, however, is just as easy to obtain as in any other state. Alcohol is just as much a problem as any other drug. We see most relapses surrounded by alcohol abuse for reported reasons of: “It’s not my drug of choice”, “It’s legal”, “I’ve never had a problem with alcohol”. Below is one story of a client who thought she could drink alcohol after her Christian rehab experience.
“I came out of rehab clean and sober. Doing heroin was not even on my mind at all. I was at a birthday party and there was beer. I figured one or two would not hurt. It didn’t that time. The next weekend, I thought I could go to a bar with friends. I shouldn’t have. Towards the end of the evening, we were so drunk that when someone suggested going to an after-hours party, it sounded great. I was clean, I’d done my time in a Christian rehab…why not? There was heroin there. I didn’t do any but my friend did and she overdosed because of all the alcohol we had. We all ended up waiting in the hospital to see if she was going to live or die. Alcohol is a drug. I don’t do any drugs anymore!”
-Melinda, age 38
It is not easy to change your life, your habits and your friends. You will need Christian friends in recovery. Friends who can understand and support you. Friends who understand relapse in recovery and the importance of total honesty in recovery. Being in recovery from an addiction is a unique experience. It’s also one of the hardest and most rewarding experiences you will ever have.
Recovery and relapse are often lumped together in people’s minds. Relapse does not have to be a part of recovery but it can be. Especially with the issue of alcohol. People often think that it will be easy to stay away from liquor. Liquor, however, is just as easy to obtain as in any other state. Alcohol is just as much a problem as any other drug. We see most relapses surrounded by alcohol abuse for reported reasons of: “It’s not my drug of choice”, “It’s legal”, “I’ve never had a problem with alcohol”. Below is one story of a client who thought she could drink alcohol after her Christian rehab experience.
“I came out of rehab clean and sober. Doing heroin was not even on my mind at all. I was at a birthday party and there was beer. I figured one or two would not hurt. It didn’t that time. The next weekend, I thought I could go to a bar with friends. I shouldn’t have. Towards the end of the evening, we were so drunk that when someone suggested going to an after-hours party, it sounded great. I was clean, I’d done my time in a Christian rehab…why not? There was heroin there. I didn’t do any but my friend did and she overdosed because of all the alcohol we had. We all ended up waiting in the hospital to see if she was going to live or die. Alcohol is a drug. I don’t do any drugs anymore!”
-Melinda, age 38
