Post-Addiction Life Skills In Recovery

Life Skills

Sure Haven understands the recovering woman needs help to overcome the trauma attached to addiction. Life skills help the addicts to regain the lost confidence and return back to normal life.

Through different groups offered in Sure Haven’s treatment programs and living in Sure Haven’s warm and stable environment while regaining a sense of what everyday life looks like without drugs or alcohol, our women learn new skills which support them financially and emotionally in the real world. We believe these skills must be integrated into treatment so we show our clients their situation from a lateral perspective.

Many daily functioning skills, which are taken for granted by the general public, can be quite challenging for a recovering woman. Life Skills Therapy guides them in such areas as maintaining a daily routine, personal hygiene, washing and drying clothes, grocery shopping, money management and budgeting, housekeeping, making nutritionally sound decisions while grocery shopping, and cooking. Exercise is also imperative, and education and career opportunities are discussed.

By performing these daily activities together they learn how to work as a team, to trust one another, and to form lasting bonds of friendship and support. These valuable Life Skills will improve their chances for success as they re-enter society.

Life Skills Therapy is essential to recovery because it reduces the stress associated with everyday living and creates a solid foundation for re-entering society. For a newly recovering woman, meeting the ordinary challenges of daily life without pharmacological help can seen daunting. Life skills will also teach the recovering woman that in doing the aforementioned, her self esteem and self worth will soar to unprecedented heights.

By empowering women with life skills, we enable them to cope successfully with their new sober lifestyle. We teach recovering women how to joyfully perform day-to-day tasks without drugs, alcohol, or giving in to their past addictive behaviors. By removing the stress from the basic tasks of life, they are free to embrace their sobriety with renewed confidence and purpose.