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10 Helpful Tips for Women in Recovery

Recovery from a drug or alcohol addiction can be a challenging journey, but it is not impossible if you set your mind to your goals and take the right steps towards health. There are struggles that are specific for women in recovery, such as pregnancy, parenting, and relational difficulties. What are some helpful tips for women in recovery?

1. Believe in Yourself

This may just sound like cliché motivational advice, but evidence from NCBI shows that having a positive self-perception involving control, efficacy, and competence can greatly benefit your recovery process.

You have the strength in you to persist in recovery, you just need to believe that you do for it to become true. This positive self-perception can make all the difference in the efficiency of your recovery.

2. Find a Female Role Model

It is important during your recovery to find people who understand what you are going through and can share their own success stories to encourage you. Since another woman will be able to understand the specific struggles you face, she can encourage you and mentor you throughout your recovery.

3. Surround Yourself With a Positive Community

According to NCBI, having a positive community around you can help significantly with your recovery. Members of a support group can not only encourage you but also hold you accountable, which is essential to helping you maintain abstinence.

Depending on what you feel comfortable with, you can even find women-only support groups so you can bond with other women going through what you are enduring.

4. Residential Treatment for Pregnant Women

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Opening up to your loved ones will give them the chance to support you.

If you are pregnant, it is especially critical that you maintain abstinence for the baby’s sake. To reach your goals quickly in order to keep you baby healthy, residential treatment may be the best option for you. The Department of Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services explains the options available to pregnant women with addiction or substance abuse.

You have some different options available for treatment depending on your particular situation, but always keep your baby’s health in mind as well as your own during recovery.

5. Outpatient Care for Mothers

If you already have children to take care of, a residential program may not be the best fit as it would take you away from your children. Unless you have somebody to care for them while you are in recovery, you may want to consider an outpatient care program, which can still work with you intensively and bring you to a full state of recovery.

6. Watch out for Co-Occurring Disorders

According to NBCI, co-occurring disorders such as anxiety and eating disorders are commonly found among women, so it is important that you keep other aspects of your health in mind and speak with a medical professional about anything you may be experiencing along with your addiction or substance abuse.

Since addiction and mental illnesses cross over in many ways neurologically and have similar symptoms, it can be difficult to diagnose or distinguish between the two. In order to make a full recovery, however, it is important to address both of these aspects of your health! If you have more questions about this, just call 888-821-1257 Who Answers? to speak with a caring specialist.

7. Be Open with Your Loved Ones

Support from your loved ones is especially important to recovery, and they won’t know how to support you if you don’t open up with them about what you are going through. This can be a difficult step, but it can also help you mend relationships that were hurt by the drug or alcohol problem.

Your recovery will also mean the recovery of close relationships, and these loved ones can support you through the journey.

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8. Remember Your Goals

This is applicable to anyone in recovery, not just women, but it is still important for you to keep in mind! If you get caught up in the difficulties of recovery, it can be difficult to keep your goals at the forefront and pursue them diligently.

You may need friends nearby to consistently remind you of why you began this journey, but you should continue to find ways to motivate yourself towards achieving these goals.

9. Find a Treatment You’re Comfortable With

Don’t let yourself get stuck in a residential program or support group that you aren’t comfortable with, because this may hinder your recovery. Always be sure that you can see yourself sticking with that program or group for the long run, because those are the people who will be there for you through this whole journey!

10. Take Care of Yourself

You shouldn’t feel guilty for leaving you family for a short period of time to attend residential treatment, or taking a couple days a week for outpatient recovery. In the end, your recovery with help your family and your recovery is important.

Let someone else handle matters temporarily while you get the situation back under control, and then you will be at full health to give your family or job the attention it requires.

If you or a loved one are in recovery, know that you are not alone in this, and you can call 888-821-1257 Who Answers? to speak with a caring specialist about any questions or concerns.

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