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  • Writer's pictureErik Frederickson - Life Coach and Recovery Coach

In a world where addiction and substance abuse are running rampant, finding effective solutions to help individuals on their path to recovery has become of extreme importance. Sober coaching, a relatively new but highly effective approach, has gained traction and success for its ability to provide the necessary support, guidance, and accountability that individuals in recovery desperately need. In this blog, we will explore the reasons why sober coaching works and why it has become a valuable tool in the journey to sobriety.


1. Personalized Support

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One of the primary reasons why sober coaching works is its focus on providing personalized support and guidance. Every individual's journey through addiction and recovery is unique, and what works for one person may not work for another. At Recovering Reality we work closely with our clients to develop customized plans tailored to their specific needs and circumstances. By addressing the unique challenges and triggers that you are facing, we provide a level of support that is hard to achieve through a one-size-fits-all approach.


2. Continuous Accountability


Accountability is a fundamental aspect of recovery. At Recovering Reality we offer continuous accountability, ensuring that our clients stay on track and make progress in their journey toward healthy and sustainable recovery. This accountability extends beyond our one-on-one sessions. We stay in touch throughout the week, in between sessions, providing support when it's needed most. This constant presence can be a game-changer for someone struggling with addiction, as it lessens the likelihood of relapse and keeps our clients focused on their goals.


3. Building Healthy Habits


Recovery is not just about abstaining from substances; it's much more than that. Our coaching helps our clients build a new, healthy way of life. Sober coaching plays a pivotal role in helping individuals establish and maintain healthy habits, and our coaches assist our clients in setting goals related to physical health, mental well-being, faith, and relationships. We guide our clients in creating routines and structures that promote connection to God, sobriety, and overall well-being. By building these positive habits, our sober coaches help our clients replace old, destructive patterns with new, constructive ones.


4. Emotional Support

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Addiction often goes hand in hand with emotional turmoil, past traumas, and mental health challenges. At Recovering Reality our sober coaches are well-equipped to offer emotional support to our clients. We help our clients process their emotions, deal with underlying issues, surrender to God, and provide a safe and non-judgmental space for open conversations. This emotional support is invaluable in helping our clients navigate the emotional ups and downs that can accompany recovery.


5. Relapse Prevention


Preventing relapse is a top priority in the recovery process, our coaches work diligently to identify potential triggers and warning signs that may lead to relapse. By addressing these factors early on, we help our clients develop coping strategies and techniques to avoid falling back into destructive behavior. With a strong emphasis on relapse prevention, sober coaching significantly reduces the risk of returning to substance use.


6. Real-Life Application

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Our sober coaches operate in the real world, outside the confines of a treatment facility. We provide clients with the tools and skills they need to navigate daily life while maintaining sobriety. Clients practice their newfound coping strategies, communication skills, and problem-solving abilities under the guidance of their coach. This real-life application has helped us guide hundreds and hundreds of clients into resilience, confidence, and long-lasting recovery.


Conclusion


At Recovering Reality, our sober coaching is a highly effective approach to addiction recovery for several reasons. It provides personalized support, continuous accountability, and emotional support, all while focusing on building healthy habits and preventing relapse. By addressing the individual needs and challenges of each client, Recovering Reality Sober Coaching offers a holistic approach to recovery that increases the likelihood of long-term success. If you or someone you know is on the path to recovery, we would love to see if we're a good fit for your journey.


 

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  • Writer's pictureErik Frederickson - Life Coach and Recovery Coach

In 1935 the Federal Government erected the first Drug Treatment Center in Lexington, Kentucky. The Narcotic Farm was purposed to treat and find a cure for addicts, primarily heroin addicts. Many patients came from prison and shortly thereafter more followed that willingly checked themselves in. “For years the Farm was the world’s foremost center of addiction research,” stated Sam Quinones in his must-read book titled Dreamland.

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Sadly the success rate never climbed over 10%.


Even today with decades of research most treatment centers don’t rise above a single-digit success rate, although their bank accounts soar far higher than single digits. Tens of thousands of dollars for a 30-day stay is the norm. The world of drug and alcohol treatment centers rakes in tens of billions on a yearly basis.


Strangely, 1935 also produced a powerful movement of recovery right up the road from Lexington, Kentucky. 1935 was the inception of a new international movement called Alcoholics Anonymous. Bill W., a New York stockbroker, and Dr. Bob, an Akron Surgeon, started an effective movement under the spiritual guidance of Episcopal Minister Dr. Samuel Shoemaker.

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Based upon 12 biblical principles and alcoholics helping alcoholics the early years of AA produced a proven track record of well over 50% of people that took the program seriously achieving long-term or even permanent sobriety. Although hard to document, it is safe to say that AA is now producing more of a single-digit percentage of success rate in the present day.


I find it no small coincidence that in the same year, and most likely oblivious of each others’ birthing, The Narcotic Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, and Alcoholics Anonymous, in Akron, Ohio, (a morning drive from each other) set out to bring a solution to the deadly addiction issues that plagued the land nearly a century ago.


Approaching a century later this same region of our beautiful nation boasts the worst statistics for drug overdose rates in our country’s short history.


When it comes to addiction it seems the Midwest has had a quicksand-like underworld of addiction issues for years and years. This dark reality of addiction has simultaneously been growing alongside a desperate hope for a movement of recovery, and the two have been active for decades right alongside each other. Sadly the efforts for recovery have yet to turn a corner on a real solution.


But I can tell you another movement is rising. Many drug and alcohol treatment centers are helping, but they are not producing big results. AA’s approach of alcoholics helping other alcoholics still caught in the “grip of the grape” is helping, but is not bringing the results it once boasted.


This rising new movement is about YOU and I.

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Whether you are personally fighting the beast of addiction or not, this movement hinges on the average citizen claiming some responsibility and engaging in the fight. You can help your neighbor, and you can pray in faith. You can reach out and let the addict and alcoholic know they are loved and we haven’t written them off to suffer in isolation and dreaded darkness.


It’s you and I that hold the power to help our nation turn the corner on this issue. It’s the love and power of God working through all of us as we intentionally involve ourselves in the mess that rests around us. It’s our helping hand and believing heart that is stirring a generation of people into action.


One day at a time. One person at a time. We can shift the course of history and walk with the addicted soul into freedom, wholeness, and purpose. God wants this more than you and I combined, and as we ask for His help we can rest assured knowing it is here.


God wants to use you and me to be His hands and feet that love our struggling communities into His healing arms.


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  • Writer's pictureErik Frederickson - Life Coach and Recovery Coach

There I was five months into a very intense addiction treatment program. I was young (21yrs old to be exact) and naive but in my mind which had been warped by addiction, I was certain that I had life all figured out.

This particular addiction program I had begrudgingly entered into was called Odyssey House and was located in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. The typical length of stay was 9-12 months and they decided when you were finished.

Five months into the community/dormitory style treatment living I was doing rather well. Around 40-50 men packed into a large house had amplified the intense nature of early recovery, but in five months, I had reached the third level of a four-level program.


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It was then that my insides started on a slow boil. This new psychobabble and long-drawn-out conversations about feelings and childhood issues were stirring an unbearable discomfort that bothered the very core of me. The nature of change and growth was too new and too fast. I was accustomed to a dark cloud that constantly hovered over me as if it was attached with hooks to my very soul.


Maybe you can relate?

These new glimpses of freedom were foreign and peculiar to me, and this new unknown reality of facing my issues was different. I had done a pretty good job of following rules and sidestepping the deep needed processing of my internal turmoil to that point, but as the levels progressed so did the intensity of my addiction treatment. I was beginning to feel exposed and vulnerable. This rehab wasn't like having a one-on-one sober coach, no, this group setting had me feeling vulnerable.

It was like looking through a peephole out of my self-imposed cage of addiction. From the inside looking out, I felt I didn’t deserve freedom. And if by some chance I did deserve it, it felt strangely irresponsible.

My internal dialogue went as such, “What if these people find out everything I’ve done? Why am I trusting these people? I’m a fake, I can’t live free from my addiction and the mess I’ve already created. Why try...”


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The internal slow boil of emotions was jumping up a few degrees moment by moment. My inner world couldn’t handle the heat, and I needed a numbing agent to cope with the uncomfortable feelings within.

Then it happened.


I walked right out the front door of this drug and alcohol treatment center. I didn’t get my stuff, and I didn’t talk to anyone. I had to go. Where was I going? I didn’t know, but I had to leave the environment that was inching closer and closer to breaking down my defenses and making real progress in my healing process.

This decision to run, instead of face my fears and recover, sent me into five more years of destruction. I was high that same night and in less than a month I totaled my car while blackout drunk.



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Before I ran out the door of the Odyssey House I was most likely only a few more uncomfortable conversations away from a little more freedom and a little more healing, but the friction of early recovery was too much to bear. I wasn’t ready at that time.

It would be five more years of destruction, five more years of chaos, five more years of extreme spiritual darkness, and five more years of guilt and shame before I would taste the purity that life truly has to offer when walking in recovery and being in a relationship with God.

The tension is real in early recovery, but the freedom on the other side is more real. Face it now, whatever you’re facing, just face it and get on with living in recovery. It's worth it. You may not make it back to get another attempt. Life is too good to let it pass by without ever truly living.


 


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