What are the keys to a quality sustained recovery?
Coping with all of life’s stresses is a difficult for anyone, but more challenging for the recovering person. Not only is the recovering person learning how to deal with being sober/abstinent (something s/he is unaccustomed to doing,) s/he must also gain the necessary experience and skills to transform the quality of his/her relationships and develop new sobriety-supportive and emotionally nourishing relationships. Recovery must become a top priority, to be practiced and applied every day. It requires strong motivation, commitment and discipline to stick with the trial-by-error learning process. Without a spiritual program or strong sense of self, and a healthy support system, it’s usually just a matter of time before anyone (addict or not) will resort to the easiest and most immediate means of relief to cope. Relapse and Recovery Relapse is a natural and common part of the ongoing recovery process. The risk of relapse is based on how motivated and disciplined the addict is about worki
