If you are looking for a way to find purpose in life and successfully transition from a traditional inpatient or outpatient program back toward normalcy, one stage in that transition might include sober living in a supportive sober home environment. During this stage, it’s important to participate in the required group therapy sessions, which in many cases might include transitional life coaching.
What is Transitional Life Coaching?
Transitional life coaching is a service that might look slightly different from one institution to the other but in general provides life coaching services for people who are in a sober living situation, trying to transition successfully from one stage of recovery to the next.
With transitional life coaching, clients receive supportive, individualized services that tackle several areas of life, all of which are key to a successful transition and long-term sobriety, including:
- Life Coaching
- Yoga and mediation
- Time management
- Life skills training
- Nutrition guidance
- Community integration
So why do each of these matter?
Life Coaching
Life coaching can help you set personal skills for achieving the things that matter most in your personal life and keeping a balance between things like your physical health, your personal relationships, and your career advancement.
Yoga and Meditation
Being able to control your cortisol levels or stress hormones, and how you respond to difficult challenges takes practice. Yoga and meditation are some of the most effective tools people have in or out of recovery to focus on the present and not get wrapped up in the past or the future.
Both of these also offer an opportunity to bring your focus back to things within your control and to keep your mind and body healthy.
Time Management
Time management is an essential skill for everyone, especially those who are in recovery. Being able to structure your time in such a way that you have a reliable schedule is something to which people in recovery are exposed during their initial treatment with a structured daily schedule.
Replicating that when you are on your own takes practice, and transitional life coaching gives you that practice.
Life Skills
There are many life skills that people in recovery never learned or have since forgotten. These can include things like writing a resume to help with career advancement, applying for a job, balancing a checkbook, looking for a house, cooking, even washing clothes.
While in a sober living community, you’ll have the chance to learn these skills and practice them in real-time, getting help with life skills like cooking and cleaning while being able to practice them.
Nutrition Guidance
Addiction can have a serious impact on your overall health, not just mentally but physically. Many people in recovery struggle with poor diet or a lack of cooking skills, all of which can make it difficult to eat properly.
With the right type of transitional life coaching, you’ll be able to get guidance on nutrition, what to eat, how to cook, and how your food has a direct impact on things like cognition or emotions.
Community Integration
Being a part of a community is important to your long-term success not least of which because it helps you avoid isolation and subsequent depression or anxiety. When you feel like you are part of your community, you are more likely to find things like sober activities, support groups, and build new relationships.
But not everyone knows how to go about this or even where to start.
That’s why transitional life coaching can be so important, as it helps you build these skills so that you know where to look, how to approach people, and how to put yourself in the environment in such a way that you not only get something out of it but you contribute to it.
Holistic Life Coaching in Palm Springs
With Entera, we provide holistic life coaching in Palm Springs to facilitate successful, sober living. Our programs are there to help you connect to your mind, body, and spirit during a recovery, doing more than just making a list of plans but instead deeply understanding yourself and what best contributes to your personal success.
When you reach out to our team for life coaching services, we will work with you to provide personalized guidance to not only set goals but meet them. At Entera, we understand that true fulfillment is derived from balancing every part of your life, including:
- Work
- Finances
- Health
- Personal relationships
That’s why our group life coaching services are an integral part of our sober living program, offering the opportunity for private sessions but, in general, supporting individuals in a safe group setting toward goal setting and achievement that balances all aspects of life.
Call today at 760.209.6683 to see how our holistic life coaching can help you.
