Our commitment to our residents is that we will provide a set of life skills and spiritual practices which will be incorporated and assimilated into their minds and hearts and allow them to recreate and reclaim their lives.
Latest studies reveal that drug addiction is comparable to Type I diabetes and asthma. In other words, it is a chronic disease. As you would never expect to heal from diabetes if your selection always involves sugary food and drinks, so are there steps you need to make to recover from drug addiction. Stopping the abuse is one and seeking Austin drug and alcohol treatment is another, but you also have to make lifestyle changes because keeping your old lifestyle just won’t help. It is an actual lifestyle overhaul, a 180-degree change that is needed to fully recover. Lifestyle changes encompass every area in your life including social, physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. You may need to change your values, opinions, behaviour and interests. You have to learn to take care of yourself and foster supportive and relationships that have a good influence on you.
Here are some of the changes you need to make after your stay in chronic relapse centers in Austin:
Honesty- Addiction makes people manipulate and lie to oneself and others. Be honest when you feel yourself slipping. Be honest when you know you need help. Addicts relapse once or multiple times. If you need to seek Texas drug and alcohol rehabilitation again, do so.
Our belief is that alcoholism and drug addiction are chronic, progressive diseases which demand a lifelong set of practices as a way of living if we are to experience permanent recovery.
Jan 15, 2018