Create A Sober Life Worth Living

​Abstaining from drugs and alcohol is only the first step of recovery.  Getting past acute withdrawal, learning how to cope with intense cravings/urges, and drastically changing your people, places and things are all critical to early recovery.  Long term sobriety builds its foundation on healthy relationships, the ability to regulate emotions, structure, a sense of mastery, managing co-occurring disorders and in more broad terms, the creation of “a sober life worth living.”  If you are sober and hating life, the odds are you won’t be sober for long.  Creating a sober life is, in many ways, the most difficult but most rewarding part of recovery.  It is exciting to watch someone come out of the haze and get to rediscover what their life is and could be.