Learning to Stay: A Key skill learned in Rehab

When seeking an alcohol or drug rehab, you may be feeling hopeless/helpless, scary, anxious, demoralized, etc. All these emotions and more flood anyone poised to make great changes in their lives. Believe it or not, these emotions will assist you when making the changes necessary to get back on track and begin to thrive!

One of the trademark behaviors in addiction is "running from your problems". Addicts may physically re-locate many times, with the idea that if I move, then my problems will go away. Once an addict is confronted with their core issues, they run, run right into the cycle of addiction. It certainly feels better, briefly, while running. However, our problems get worse the longer we run!

In rehab, you'll learn how to "stay". We borrow from The Buddhist Tradition that teaches us how to stay when facing our demons and shadows in our lives. The work is designed to work through the pain and emptiness and to avoid "running away" and learning how to "stay" and possibly see the conflict as an opportunity for growth and patience with ourselves.

The practice of meditation, prayer, Qi Gong and other forms of calming the mind, often helps people who have a "track record" of running from their issues. The more you stay, the more solutions begin to surface and ways out of the addiction cycle become possible.

Recuperatio Primoris!