The Power of Sober Coaching: Why It Works - 3 min Read

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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The Relapse Is Not Worth it - 3 min Read

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.

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...”

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.

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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Learning to Expect Good

I believe it's normal and healthy to expect good things.

Deep down I think most people expect good for themselves until the world throws some bad stuff their way. We should always be believing in good coming our way, but I think that hope for good can begin to drift when we experience enough bad events in our lives.

Is there a way to change this? My experience tells me, yes.

I feel it’s safe to say that most people coming out of addiction and into recovery have struggled with having a controlling mentality.

I certainly did. Because I experienced so much bad in my life, I thought the only way to bring good out of a situation was if I somehow controlled the outcome in my favor.

Addiction-driven mentalities don’t just warp the psyche (soul and spirit), but it also leaves a lingering residue in our thinking and actions. One of the joys of my recovery has been learning how to live in a space of expecting good things to happen as a result of my hard work but learning to lose the expectation of how I think these good things have to happen.

Expectation is a deceitful acquaintance that masquerades as a friend.

Imagine a friend whose goal is to continually trick you into thinking that things should always go the way you think they should go. And while this phony friend tricks you they ingrain an intensely counterproductive mode of operation into your psyche called the “victim mentality.”

This is what the fake friend called expectation does to us.

By the time someone has allowed expectation to sink its teeth into their mind, there is a good chance that the roots of entitlement have also sunk deep into the soil of their heart. This divisive stance then brings us a false sense of superiority and as a result the finger-pointing and accusing others of our problems is a byproduct, ultimately positioning oneself for isolation and unhealthy relationships.

So you may be asking, how then do we go about expecting good things?

I believe living in expectancy is the answer, and there is a vast difference between expectation and expectancy.

Expectancy is a quiet and humble confidence of knowing that if I do my part, God will do His part in bringing about my success. Expectancy is when you go into a situation expecting to gain from it one way or another, but not having to control how that happens.

Expectation, on the other hand, is fueled by pride. Expectation is saying that I know best, I know exactly how this should work out and if it doesn’t someone is to blame.

Expectancy is fueled by knowing that the best is coming my way, but when I try to manipulate how that comes about I shrink my world down to my size instead of the graceful and expansive world God has for me.

Expectancy is a healthy faith of knowing that good is my portion and I will put in my hard work in relationships, personal life, and career and I will do everything I can to celebrate others' success and help them achieve it in the process. I have experienced more good than I could have imagined as I grow in this mode of operation.

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I have an expectancy that all the good God has planned for my life will become my reality.

But if I slip back into the controlling way of expectation I can quickly become blind to all the endless opportunities and possibilities where good could come into my life.

The freeing way of life found in expectancy drives me to receive more than I could ever ask, think, or imagine. I get to enter situations knowing that good is coming my way, but without creating an expectation of how that has to happen.

So...

Are you living in expectation?

Or are you living in expectancy?

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