When you attend rehab, you receive various treatments, therapy, assistance, and supervision to help you become sober. During addiction treatment, you’re also often separated from the rest of the world so you can focus on your recovery. As a result, going back to a world that’s filled with temptations can appear like an impossible feat.
The struggle that many people have remaining sober after leaving addiction treatment is what causes them to relapse. While there is no perfect treatment combination that can prevent relapse, there are certain things that you can do to decrease the chances that relapse will occur. One of those things is transitioning from addiction treatment into the real world at your own pace. Staying at a sober living home after rehab is one of the best ways to do that.
Sober living homes are one of the best ways to prevent relapse after addiction treatment for many reasons. You could even argue that the benefits and services that sober living homes provide those in addiction recovery are incomparable to any aftercare service.
Just check out the list of benefits that sober living homes provide those in recovery below:
Sober living homes provide a great support system for people who are overcoming addiction. One way that sober living homes provide support to their residents is through their on-site managers.
On-site sober living home managers are there 24/7 to help you. They can help you if you’re struggling with cravings, finding a job, or adjusting to the world after treatment. Sober living home managers are like parents that you can turn to for assistance if you ever need anything. The managers act as a safety net as you venture back into life outside of treatment. By having this safety net, you’re giving yourself just enough support and guidance to ensure that if you ever fall after treatment, you‘ll have the ability to get back up again without losing your sobriety.
On-site managers aren’t the only people that provide those in recovery with support and guidance while in a sober home. There are also house managers and staff members that are there to help hold you accountable for your actions.
To hold you accountable for your sobriety, all sober homes contain a set of rules that all residents must follow. Some of these rules usually include not allowing any alcohol or drugs on-site, a curfew, and random drug testing.
If residents don’t comply with the guidelines at a sober living home, they may no longer be able to live there. Therefore, you must maintain accountability for your addiction and your real-world responsibilities while simultaneously receiving support. Doing so will help make maintaining your responsibilities while remaining sober easier. This is especially true once the support of the sober living home is gone.
When living as a resident in a sober living community, there are other people in recovery living within the community as well. Therefore, you and your fellow residents can lean on one another whenever you feel tempted to relapse.
Many people in recovery have to cut ties with certain family members and friends. While in recovery, many individuals may also end relationships with people who continued to have a negative influence on them. Because of all the people addicts cut out of their lives, bonding with other people that are in addiction recovery while staying in a sober living community is beneficial.
When you’re a resident at a sober living home, you must obtain a job. You may also need to perform some daily chores. By providing you with such responsibilities, sober living homes are allowing you to restore old life skills. These restored life skills will help you function in the real world.
Other things that residents at sober living homes are expected to do while living there include exercise, eat healthy, and maintain personal hygiene. By keeping up with these responsibilities, you will be better prepared to maintain a healthy lifestyle when you return back to your normal life.
You receive much more independence while in a sober living home than you do while in addiction treatment. This is because you’re allowed to leave the facility and do things like go to the store while in a sober living home. While in a sober living home, you’re also able to get a job.
Essentially, living in a sober living home is like living in the real world but with extra support. Once you become independent enough to take on most of life’s responsibilities, you’re ready to live life on your own in the real world.
When you live in a sober living home, your chances of relapsing reduce significantly. This is because living at a sober living home allows you to operate in the real world as a normal individual while still receiving aftercare treatment and support from your community of other people in recovery at home.
As a result, staying in a sober living home after receiving addiction treatment takes away the overwhelming nature that entering the real world would normally have right after attending treatment. Because you’re not overwhelmed when entering the real world after staying in a sober living home, your chances of relapsing will reduce.
Sober home living and normal life are not too different from one another. If anything, the difference is way more similar than that of addiction treatment and normal life. Therefore, the transition to normal life from living in a sober living home is much easier than from addiction treatment. By allowing an easier transition into the real world, staying in a sober living home after treatment reduces the chance of you relapsing.
MONROE STREET HOUSING SERVICES
Monroe Street Housing offers numerous services for you to use when staying in their sober living homes.
To learn about these services, read the sections below.
24/7 MEDICAL AND CLINICAL SERVICES
VISIBLE RECOVERY ALUMNI PROGRAM
SPIRIT-CENTRIC 12-STEP PROGRAMS
2-PHASED SYSTEM TREATMENT
VOCATIONAL TRAINING
TRANSPORTATION
MEALS
