C3S Podcast & Reads: October 22nd, 2024
Rehab discharge plan, trauma and hiding your addiciton
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In this episode, I share some of the more impactful exercises and learnings from group sessions during the intensive inpatient experience during my time in rehab.
The final episode on the rehab deep dive is about the discharge planning process. The mantra, a failure to plan is a plan to fail, rings strongly in the recovery space. I knew that leaving rehab that I had just been permitted the opportunity to reset my life, but that did not mean I had found the solution to my alcoholism. Putting together this plan allowed me to detail my recovery goals and boundaries that allowed me to discover the solution to my alcoholism in the months after leaving rehab.
Interesting Articles & Reads
Trauma and Addiction: Unraveling the Link
Trauma is one of the three key forces that can push an individual over the threshold to becoming an addict. Yet I struggled with this idea for some time as I looked out in the world and saw so many individuals that faced much more traumatic, with a capital “T”, events than I had in my life, yet they didn’t struggle? How could that be? This is a complicated and tangled topic, worthy of a standalone post, but this article is a good primer into the subject.
Signs That Your Loved One is Hiding an Addiction
Hot take - high functioning addict/alcoholic doesn’t exist. Just give it enough time, and things will begin to unravel for an addict who hides their addiction, or worse, their addiction will end their life. It’s a brutal statement, but based on my experience and time in recovery I believe it to be the truth.
That’s all I’ve got! All the best,
Kyle Zibrowski