Are you having a hard time meeting your goals from rehab aftercare? You’ve worked hard to get to this point, and while you want to remain sober, it can be tempting to push aside these goals and requirements. Consider all that you’ve accomplished and how to achieve in the months to come. With Crestview Recovery, we can provide you with the tools you need to reach your goals, including maintaining rehab aftercare.
What Is Rehab Aftercare?
During your treatment program, you will work to develop an aftercare plan. This is a plan that aims to help you succeed once you leave treatment. It will always be specific to your unique needs. Addiction is a life-long journey. There is no quick recovery from it. Once you have an addiction, it will continue to be a factor in your life for the rest of it. At the same time, you have the ability to control your thoughts and actions to ensure you don’t fall onto the path of relapse. Your aftercare plan helps to make sure that doesn’t happen.
What Will Be a Part of Your Rehab Aftercare?
You’ll learn a lot about your treatment needs during your sessions with your therapist and in group therapy. When you leave formal treatment, we don’t want you to forget this. That is why you may benefit from ongoing treatment that can encourage you to stay on the right path. This may include additional recovery counseling. It may consist of relapse prevention programs. For most people, it also includes things like knowing your triggers and how to get help from a mentor when you need it.
How to Maintain Those Plans
Once you get back to live, all of your rehab aftercare may become a blur. You may not want to think about those things because you have a lot to do at home. You have people to interact with and relationships to rebuild. You may seem to easily slip back into life. That’s not what you want to happen. It could put you at risk. To stick with your aftercare treatment plan, remember the following.
- Maintain your connections with your counselors.
- Follow a schedule throughout the day to help these things become routine.
- Connect with a sponsor or mentor right away. Let them know what your goals are.
- Practice the positive thinking processes you learned in cognitive-behavioral therapy.
- Continue with local recovery meetings without fail.
Doing these things helps you to stay on the course to healing and health. If you stray from them, remember that you can reach out to your counselor or mentor for help getting back on track.
Put Your Trust in Your Team
Whether you need sober living support or dual diagnosis treatment, it’s critical to stay on track with your aftercare planning. Our rehab aftercare services are available to you no matter what type of treatment you receive. We encourage you to reach out to us to learn more, including about programs such as these:
- Men’s rehab treatment
- Women’s rehab treatment
- Mental health disorder treatment
- Extended care addiction treatment
- Intensive outpatient treatment
No matter what you do to achieve your goals, keep relapse out of the picture. Work to maintain your aftercare goals and treatment processes. It can make a big difference in your long-term health and quality of life.
Explore the Treatment Options Available at Crestview Recovery Today
Rehab aftercare is a reliable way to help you prevent relapse. Even if you are ready to get back to living your life and put addiction behind you, this type of help can be critically important. Our team at Crestview Recovery can provide you with the resources you need to achieve your best outcome. Learn more about the therapy options we offer when you call 866.262.0531.
Since 2016, Dr. Merle Williamson, a graduate of Oregon Health Sciences University, has been the Medical Director at Crestview Recovery, bringing a rich background in addiction medicine from his time at Hazelden Treatment Center. He oversees outpatient drug and alcohol treatments, providing medical care, setting policies, detox protocols, and quality assurance measures. Before specializing in addiction medicine, he spent 25 years in anesthesiology, serving as Chair of Hospital Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and Chief of Anesthesia at Kaiser Permanente. This experience gives him a unique perspective on treating prescription drug addiction.
