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A Recovery Coach is a  professional sober life coach. This is someone who guides and supports a person in recovery from addiction and helps prevent relapses. Did you know that up to 65 percent of people in their first year of recovery following traditional rehabilitation will relapse at least once? Those are daunting odds. The goal of a recovery coach is to be actively involved in the life of a recovering addict in order to prevent relapse.  CLICK HERE TO REACH FOR HELP

Recovery coaches help people with active addictions as well as persons already in recovery with some "clean time". Recovery coaches are helpful for making decisions about what to do with your life and the discovery of how your addiction and recovery plays a big part in it. Recovery coaches help clients find ways to stop active drinking or using (achieve abstinence), and reduce harm associated with addictive behaviors. Recovery coaches can help a client find resources for harm reduction, detox, treatment, family support, recovery education and local or online support groups for traveling clients.  Recovery Coaches help a client create a change plan to maintain recovery for the long-term.

Recovery coaches do not offer primary treatment for addiction, do not diagnose, and are not associated with any particular method or means of recovery. Recovery coaches support any positive change, helping persons coming home from treatment to avoid relapse, construct a safe and healthy recovery routine, build community support for recovery, or work on life goals not directly related to addiction such as healthy relationships, career work, school and education goals, etc. Recovery coaching is action oriented with an emphasis on improving life now and planning for safe and healthy goals in the future.  Recovery coaching is unlike most therapy because coaches do not address the past and do not work to heal trauma.

Got Some Clean and Sober Time Already?  Been Through Treatment?

If you’ve been through rehab, inpatient or outpatient programs, or some form of counseling or support group and you have been sober for a day or a week or a significant period of time, you can expect some struggles.  Maybe you feel like "triggers" to use are all around you. That bar where you used to hang out with friends and drink is right on your daily drive route.  Maybe an friend with whom you got high keeps texting you.  Maybe you don't know how to have a social life without feeling pressured to "party".  You feel depressed, anxious and stressed out and you know that just like always, a few drinks or just one joint or pill will ease these feelings.  These are the subtle thoughts that make the disease of addiction so very powerful.

Recovery is hard and relapse is common. There is never a guarantee of recovery after relapse, that's the ever-present danger of this dilemna.  How can you avoid turning back to drugs and alcohol? There are a lot of strategies, like finding new hobbies, going to meetings, working with a sponsor and others, but they aren’t always enough. On the other hand, you may be feeling secure in your sobriety, but your life revolves around avoiding relapse. You aren’t thriving when operating on fear and every day feels like a chore.  Help is available.  A Certified Professional Recovery Coach is trained to help the addict discover ways to ease the pressure, enjoy the new life of sobriety and attain long-term abstinence.