Going to alcohol and drug rehab requires great honesty. Being able to look at and describe the truth is an essential step to change. However just honesty, without direction doesn’t lead to the lasting change people hope for when they enter a rehab center. The real change comes from courage and integrity. Many times clients go to meetings or to counseling and are totally honest. They recount the times they continued to use, and all the lies and manipulations they used to continue their addiction. But they continue to use. They go to rehab and tell everything and then go back to the same behavior.
Honesty’s power comes from the courage to do the right thing. Honesty is like finding out where you are on a map when you are lost. Integrity tells you which direction you need to go next. Courage is about overcoming the doubts that you can complete the journey. Honesty is not a goal in itself. It is more of a tool to achieve the goals you really want. When you enter a rehab, total honesty is a great step. Don’t stop there. Use the rehab program to find out where you want to really go with your life. Allow the safety of a rehab to be honest. Find out where you really are in your life. Once you are honest, don’t stay there. Move to a better set of standards. Simply being honest about bad behavior doesn’t lead to change.
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You arrive at a drug and alcohol rehab. You are confused and tired. You don’t want to listen to your “inner voice” of right and wrong. You are craving your drug of choice badly, and you don’t trust any of the counselors yet, or any of the other clients. What do you do to survive? How do you build courage? The answer is simply do the program in front of you will all your might. I don’t care what type of program it is. It will take 10 days to 2 weeks to get out of the worst craving stage. Following and learning any new program for two weeks with disipline and forward focus will help you find the right things for you to do and follow. Get up early, go to bed on time, even if you can’t sleep.
Don’t look at what is wrong with the situation. Keep asking questions about what you can learn? What ways can you practice disipline today? What ways can you keep your word today? How can you be helpful to someone today? If you ask good questions you will get good answers. Courage is a skill that can be built and honed like any other. Simply do what is in front of you with caring and focus for one hour, then decide to do another. Don’t let fear of making a mistake let addiction dictate your path. Learning something well and not abusing drugs and alcohol is the right thing to do. This alone will start to build the courage to do other things. Rehabs have structure. Rehabs have timetables. Let this structure be your guide until you start to listen to your inner voice. Once you are at a rehab, don’t worry about whether or not it is the right one. Do the program with all you have. The courage you develop will guide you to the next step.
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In drug and alcohol rehab shouldn’t sobriety be the number one goal? Yes, absolutely. Yet you won’t find sobriety without first finding the courage to face the areas in your person that have to change, and then finding the courage to change them. How can a rehab center help you find courage? Simply by firstly making you safe. When you are not feeling safe, your brain is so busy making plans you cannot hear your conscience speeking to you. Fear can seduce and corrupt your plans as your natural tendancy for self preservation will over ride what is likely the best course of action, for the one that will get and keep you out of trouble the fastest.
Courage involves doing the right thing, no matter if the consquences seem fearful or the outcome intially may not be great for you. But when you are in the middle of a tough drug or alcohol addiction, how do you know what is the right thing to do? You have to re-awaken the voice inside you that tells you right from wrong. It’s always there. You probably haven’t listened to it in a long time. But to really start to awaken it and ponder the right path for your life, you must feel safe enough to stop running ang lying. This is what a rehab is for. Safety to stop running and checking over your shoulder. Safety to look ahead and decide where you are headed.
Initially you may not trust the voice inside you. Then ask someone you trust if this is the right action. Courage involves doing the right thing repeatedly. Doing the right thing leads to integrity. This is what counselors in rehab are for. When the voice inside you tells you a course of action and if you are not sure if it is the right thing to do ask a counselor you respect for advice. Pick someone who has some of the qualities you wish to acquire. Learning to follow your heart and do the right thing consistently will lead to sobriety. It will lead to a successful rehab. It will lead to integrity and joy. Do something courageous at rehab today.
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Clients arrive at a drug and alcohol rehab center most commonly missing one thing. That thing is courage. I’m not talking about the ability to fight, or place themselves in dangerous situations. I’m talking about real courage. Courage in this context is the mental and moral fibre to go out and work, change and live according to what is right reguardless of fear, uncertainty, or difficulty. I have read in several different places, ( I’m not sure of the original author) that the opposite of courage is not fear. The opposite of courage is indifference.
If you asked me what was the single most damaging trait that most people with addiction have it is indifference. They have is to their health, body, self image, other people, rules, goals, and pretty much everything else. All drug and alcohol rehab centers work in one way or another to combat this indifference. The endlees lists of rules at a rehab are about combating this. By removing drugs and alcohol, making safety a priorty, and stopping all physical, mental, verbal and racial violence, the center is making a stand for what is right. Sometimes rules are not popular. But enforcing them fairly and ensuring safety is courageous. Taking a stand is the opposite of indifference. Respect is the opposite. Disipline is the opposite. There are lot’s of ways to learn courage, having someone model it is one of them. Rehabs need courage, rehabs need to stand up to indifference.
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