The Stages of Rehab Recovery: Maintaining Abstinence

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The Stages of Rehab Recovery Maintaining Abstinence From Buddy T, your Guide to Alcoholism Also during this stage of your recovery, you will learn to put the tools that you learned in early abstinence to use in other areas of your life, so that you can continue to live a truly sober lifestyle. You will learn new coping skills and tools to help you deal with many different aspects of life. Tools for Maintaining Abstience Developing Healthy Relationships Avoiding your former drinking buddies or drug-using friends is a key step in maintaining your recovery, but it doesn't stop there. Developing new positive friendships with people who can support your recovery efforts can be even more important. Developing a Drug-Free Lifestyle If you are trying to maintain abstinence from alcohol or drugs over a long period of time, it is important to develop a drug-free lifestyle in all aspects of your life -- at home, at work and during your leisure hours. Dealing With the Past As you reach the stage in your recovery of trying to maintain long-term abstinence, it is important that you deal with your feelings of guilt and shame or lack of self-esteem. Allowing these feelings to fester can easily drive you back to drinking or drugging to escape the pain. Managing Anger It is important that you learn how to recognize your anger and express it appropriately, rather than allow it to jeopardize your recovery. Anger is a normal and natural human emotion; how you handle your anger makes the difference. This email is written by: Buddy T Alcoholism Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Missing a lesson? Click here. About U. is our collection of free online courses designed to help you learn a new skill, solve a problem, get something done, or just learn more about your world. Sign up now, and we will email you lessons on a daily or weekly basis. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the About.com 'The Stages of Rehab Recovery' email. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2010 About.com   Advertisement