UNIQUE BENEFITS OF TRANSITIONAL HOUSING

Clients feel a part of community – not apart from one

Now fully accredited by the American Society of Addiction Medicine, Lifeline Recovery Center provides long-term, faith-based residential care. Each description is uniquely important to recovery – longterm, faith-based and residential.

Beyond the unique features of Lifeline’s treatment program, it offers an important bonus option.

After clients finish the program, they may stay in transitional housing while they adjust to their new sober life, an option I believe can actually save their lives.

The men’s and women’s campuses can house 10 or more people each, six to 12 months after they complete treatment.

Transitional housing is one of the most important components of recovery because recovering addicts may struggle to maintain abstinence and a meaningful recovery when they leave the structured environment of a treatment facility.

While they attempt to embrace a new lifestyle, they are highly vulnerable to relapse. Transitional housing’s continued support promotes abstinence, independent living, personal responsibility and spiritual enrichment.

Meanwhile, it relieves the person in early recovery from the physical, psychological and financial stress of seeking accommodations immediately after leaving a treatment center.

The point is: They need to feel a part of a community instead of apart from one.

Transitional care connects them to other people in recovery who can relate to them and who face parallel challenges. This connection prevents isolation, which inevitably leads to relapse.

JOHN W. BRAZZELL, M.D. Volunteer Medical Consultant at Lifeline Medical director at Kentucky Care, Paducah

The opposite of addiction is connection –connection with people, a higher power and the universe.

In transitional housing, they take comfort in knowing they are not alone. Support helps with applying life skills, enhancing their spiritual life and coping with emotional ups and downs.

An important part of early recovery is learning how life can be fun again, instead of just endured. Transitional housing offers an atmosphere where one can experience true joy about recovery and find enjoyment in the small things of life that were ignored when drugs were the most important thing in their life.

This transitional phase promotes responsibility, while encouraging independence and employment to give a sense of purpose. It also stimulates one to strive for improvement in physical health and overall wellness.

The proof is in the data: Transitional living environments reduce the rate of relapse into old habits and false belief systems and help get our patients off to a good start to their new life.

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