Recovery Resolutions for the New Year 2023
By
Dr G Om Prakasham
Chairman, lotus Wellness
Consultant Cardiac Surgeon
At Lotus Wellness, we know that maintaining your recovery isn’t always easy. Here are some resolutions you can use as aids in your mission of staying sober:
Everyone has rituals for heading into and preparing for the New Year, whether those include picking up a new calendar, planning to host a party, deciding which party to attend, or, perhaps most popularly, deciding on a New Year’s resolution. For a lot of people, the beginning of a new year brings with it a fresh start and a chance to reinvent themselves and build new, healthy habits.
Especially for people in recovery, or people who want to recover from a substance abuse disorder, this can be an especially excellent opportunity to do just that.
At Lotus, we know that maintaining your recovery isn’t always easy. However, we also know that New Year’s resolutions are great for staying motivated or regaining lost motivation. Here are some resolutions you can use as aids in your mission of staying sober:
Keep a Diary
For as long as people have been able to write, we’ve been keeping journals. Diaries allow us to write down the events of a day and reflect on them, granting us a better understanding of ourselves and our emotions. Plus, when kept over a long period of time, diaries give us an opportunity to look back and reflect on how far we’ve come. Diaries can help you relieve stress and anxiety, set and track goals, and help you feel more accomplished when you’ve achieved those goals.
There are no rules on how to keep a Diary—your entries can be about whatever you want, whether they’re reflections on your day, lists of things you’re grateful for, quick entries about your physical and mental health, something else, or a combination. You can use a diary that gives you prompts, or look up prompts on the internet. Your diary can be a physical object, like a notebook or a diary with a lock, or it can be digital. What you write is up to you, but your goal should be to write something down every day.
Discover Something New
Recovery often asks us to leave old activities and friends that could cause us to relapse behind. This can be difficult for many reasons, but one is not knowing how to fill your time. The excess free time that comes with cutting these things out can also lead to a relapse. What this means is that after cutting out toxic habits and people, it’s vital that they be replaced by healthy alternatives.
This New Year, explore your interests and form some new skills. Try taking a local painting class, teaching yourself how to play the guitar, reading all the unread books on your bookshelf, or learning and practicing some yoga choices. Now’s the perfect time to discover a new hobby or skill, whatever you want that to be, and it might help you make new friends and form a new, sober community, as well.
Make Healthy Choices
Exercising is also a great way to fill your free time with new activities and new people, and as an added bonus, taking care of your physical health can also help you with your recovery. Some classic New Year’s resolutions involve going to the gym more often or starting a healthier diet, and these resolutions may work for you, as well. It’s up to you how you want to fit physical activity into your life—you could hike, ride a bike, go to the gym, join an exercise class, or even a sports team.
Exercise has a lot of benefits, but you might be wondering how exercise is connected to your recovery. Physical activity causes our body to release endorphins, feel-good chemicals, which help with stress, something that cause speedbumps on the road to recovery. These endorphins also help improve our overall mood, helping to prevent a relapse. Problems with sleep and sleeping regularly is also a common problem among people in recovery, and exercise can help with that, as well.
Reach Out for Help When You Need It
It’s important to remember that addiction is a chronic illness. Your struggles are not a reflection of your willpower or moral failings, but instead symptoms of a sickness. Make your resolution this year to use your support system and reach out to others when you need it, whether that means reaching out to sober friends, visiting a substance abuse therapist, or attending substance abuse group counseling.
You have tools at your disposal to keep you sober this New Year. If you’re looking for drug counseling near you, look no further than the specialists at Lotus . With services like medication-assisted addiction treatment (MAT) and mental health care options, we’re ready to help you through this New Year and beyond.
Ready to commit yourself to your New Year’s resolutions?
Seek Treatment
All of the above suggestions are great things to implement in your daily life to work towards sobriety. However, you may hit a point where you have exhausted many options and need professional addiction treatment.
We realize that this can be a scary path, as there is a stigma in the society of those that need alcoholism treatment. However, we encourage you to not let this incorrect stigma stop you from getting the help that you need and deserve. You have the potential for a beautiful life- the power to go after your goals.
Lotus Wellness and rehabilitation Center in Coimbatore in southern India is an amazing treatment center that will treat you as the amazing person that you are. We will understand your story, and help you get to the core of sobriety.
Our treatment plan is unique with an all inpatient holistic luxurious rehabilitation Center and an Aftercare program to break the cycle of addiction. The 360 degrees all inclusive treatment programs and unique activities offered at lotus instils our patients hope, with a blueprint of their life after addiction.
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