| Addiction Recovery Coaching can be an important addition for individuals recovering from alcohol addiction, substance abuse, and other addictive behaviors. Recovery coaching works in person or over the phone, so it’s available no matter where you live. It can work in conjunction with therapy, recovery groups, workshops, and in-patient treatment. Recovery coaching can help carry your recovery beyond the initial treatment stages and bring significant, lasting change in to your life. The rate of relapse can be drastically reduced with a professional recovery coach helping you navigate the transitions and shifts required for long-term successful recovery.
Recovery Coaching is focused on the Future. The recovery coaching process is designed to help you create a positive future, take personal responsibility for your actions and support self-determination. Your coach will work with you to identify specific areas of growth by keeping the focus on personal empowerment, enabling you to take initiative and accomplish your desired goals. This might mean crafting a comprehensive plan, focusing on specific areas of development, or learning how to navigate effectively in work and life situations.
The Coaching Relationship. While your coach may educate and offer ideas, giving direct advice is not part of the coaching process. Your coach will always stay focused on what you want by working closely with you to identify your needs and desired outcomes.
Action and Accountability. Those in recovery are often just learning foundational emotional literacy skills that enable feelings of confidence, competence, and wholeness, allowing for forward movement during the recovery process. Your coach will help you visualize a positive future and guide you towards action; your coach will also gently hold you accountable without blaming or shaming if you fall short of your goal, and also continue to hold and honor your vision for you if you find you have temporarily lost sight of it.
Knowing When to Start Recovery Coaching. Just like treatment for addiction, coaching is useful only when you are truly ready. This might mean that you are on a solid path towards recovery, have dealt with your most significant past issues, and have the time and energy to devote to mapping out a new life. You must be in a position to put energy toward creating a new future while also maintaining a focus on your continued recovery. At Innovative Recovery Coaching we use an assessment and questionnaire to identify your readiness for life coaching.
Addiction Recovery Coaching is not
- for anyone still actively involved with their addictive activity
- a substitute for a 12-step group
- a substitute for a sponsor
- a primary method of treatment
- therapy
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