Maintaining long-term sobriety requires daily commitment and steadfast effort. Living an abstinent lifestyle comes with challenges in your career, relationships, and personal self-confidence. If you want to improve your communication, focus on your self-development and enhance your new lifestyle, finding a skills development group is a great solution.
When you leave your treatment center, you are given a treatment plan that proposes various methods to prepare you for integrating back into your real-life routines. Many different forms of therapy and groups can help enhance your knowledge and skills to help you overcome challenges in life after treatment. Implementing that knowledge and skill into your life equips you for unforeseen circumstances for better sobriety management.
Skills development groups are wonderful ways to meet people with similar interests, build your skills in various areas, and fill your time with something meaningful. They are designed to help you maintain abstinence and cultivate skills relevant to your lifestyle so you can avoid triggers, cope with urges, relax, and solve real-life problems. These groups teach you to maintain a powerful effect on your psychological functioning and build your confidence to sustain a healthy lifestyle.
When attending skills development groups, you obtain positive reinforcement from your peers and practice using skills effectively, such as emotion control, relaxation, and communication. All of the skills learned in skills development groups help you develop your knowledge base to help you when decisions need to be made and appropriate action taken.
The goal of these groups is to help you acquire the skills needed to focus on your goals in life and recovery. Some skills development groups may provide you knowledge and skills for building leadership to manage conflict, enhance interactions, and take ownership of your actions and thoughts which may be used later in your career or other relationships.
In many skills groups, the only thing you need to bring is yourself and a desire to learn and implement new skills. Bringing an encouraging attitude can build mutual positive reinforcement among group members.
Many skills development groups include physical exercise, leadership skills, nutrition, writing skills, job-seeking skills, financial literacy, cleanliness, and more. The skills development groups help you achieve a healthier and happier lifestyle, and choosing to partake in skills development groups only requires the ability to apply the knowledge with the help of others.
Skills development groups are often guided with evidence-based research and infused with a combination of other treatment experiences. You may learn about financial responsibility or coping mechanisms to help you avoid possible relapses. You may gain enhancements in self-care, responsibility, anger management, and more.
When attending skills development groups, consider how learning different skills will benefit you and your lifestyle. Ask yourself what areas you may be lacking in skills and use the group to guide your learning. You will get the most out of the group when you come ready to learn and engage, even if the topic for that meeting is something you feel you have a solid grasp on. There's always something new to learn.
Skills development groups help you maintain a healthy lifestyle because they give you hope, direction, and support. These groups show you you’re not the only one who struggles with substance use or concrete life skills, which can give you feelings of hope and solidarity.
Building and maintaining a healthy lifestyle requires a constructive purpose with insight to eliminate any negative perception of life outside treatment. You will be in a safe environment where you can learn how to express your feelings, reveal concerns, build your skills, and prepare yourself for life in recovery. All of this is designed to create a healthy lifestyle as it improves your quality of life to give you a deeper understanding of what you’re capable of doing.
Some of the major topics skills development groups revolve around are substance use-related, like overcoming cravings, reducing triggers, and finding a support system. These skills are essential because they are the building blocks of a sober life. You will also learn skills such as making a proper nutrition plan, exercising correctly, and self-care practices. In addition, you will get quality feedback from group leaders and your peers while you’re learning how to incorporate the skills into real-life scenarios to encourage and motivate you.
After addiction treatment, your life has a new path that requires a methodological approach for change. With a skills development group, you can build recovery skills for long-term sobriety help. At NorthStar Transitions, we know how difficult life can be in and out of treatment, and that it requires many skill sets that may have been forgotten or simply never learned. Skills development groups will prepare you for independent living by establishing positive behaviors and enhancing a healthier lifestyle. You may be surprised by how much you can learn and how much you can benefit from sitting in on skills development groups with people who are in a similar walk of life as you. If you or someone you love struggles with substance use and needs treatment, or has recently completed treatment and needs a leg up on skill-building, call NorthStar Transitions today. Contact us at (303) 558-6400 for more information about our programs.
