Healing from addiction is an individualized and challenging road. However, with effective treatment, you can heal and recover long-term. One of the primary aspects of long-term recovery is structure, both in treatment and after. At Rancho Recovery, your treatment includes a structured approach that helps you to learn what type and style of structure can benefit your recovery. Then, you learn how to integrate this structure into your life after treatment. This greatly improves your success in recovery and is a tool that is vital for managing your wellness and health in your life.
What Is Structure in Treatment?
There are many ways that structure occurs in a treatment environment. At Rancho Recovery, the structure of treatment is uniquely created to fit your needs. However, structure occurs in both the schedule and structured treatment that both help you to heal.
Schedule
In treatment, your schedule is created for you by the staff at Rancho Recovery. This schedule is highly structured. As a result, your day is planned and consistent in treatment. The specifics of your schedule may include different types of therapy, treatment, and holistic care.
Effective treatment for addiction, as a chronic relapsing disorder, involves detoxing and changing deeply rooted behaviors that play a role in your challenges with addiction. However, making changes in these behaviors is difficult. A strict schedule helps you to make adjustments and learn new patterns. The structure of a new schedule, while uncomfortable at first, will help you to learn what type of schedule helps your long-term recovery.
Structured Treatment for Long-Term Recovery
Treatment for addiction does not occur in a single treatment session. It takes time to heal from the physical dependency of addiction through detox and address underlying issues. Spending the time to ensure that you address the physical and behavioral aspects of treatment is important.
A structured treatment plan puts you on a path toward long-term recovery. It helps you by ensuring that the deep challenges you face are addressed. The amount of time it takes will be unique for you, depending on the issues you face. However, with help from Rancho Recovery, you can heal through a highly structured and effective treatment plan.
Structure in Long-Term Recovery
Ideally, treatment for addiction will help you to learn skills that make you successful in long-term recovery. Your needs for long-term recovery are unique. However, structure helps you to maintain self-care and cravings management, which are both vital in your recovery process.
Self-Care
A lack of self-care is common if you are struggling with addiction or substance abuse. However, self-care is an important part of recovery. When you care for your own needs, you are more able to be in a positive emotional and mental space, which helps you change your behavior and support your needs in recovery.
However, self-care requires a certain amount of structure. Trying to make good choices for your self-care every second of the day is unrealistic. Fortunately, when you are structured and habituated, these choices become easier. For example, when you structure exercise or a faith-based support group into your life, you do not have to think about attending as it is a part of your normal routine.
Craving Management
Managing cravings is very important in long-term recovery, as addiction is a chronic relapsing disease. There are a variety of skills involved in craving management. Structure is one component of an effective strategy. The specifics of your structure will be well-suited to fit your needs.
Structure helps you to have tools for when you feel cravings. A structure may look like a list of people you can reach out to for support. However, it can also involve a list of activities that help you to stay on the path of recovery. Examples include exercise, meditation, or journaling. Regardless of the specific activity, structure helps you by ensuring that you have options when you need them.
Learning Long-Term Recovery Skills in Treatment
Treatment for addiction is effective only when you learn the skills to manage your long-term recovery. While in treatment, you will learn a unique set of skills; learning to use structure is one that will likely help you.
First, you will learn the value of structure through a structured treatment program. While you may not enjoy it at first, being inside a structured situation will help you see why it helps you stay on track while you are in your treatment program.
In addition, you will learn how you can use structure in your own life. This concept will be a part of many conversations in treatment. Through these interactions, you will slowly build the skills and knowledge of what type and style of structure you want to integrate into your life when you return home after treatment.
At Rancho Recovery, we understand that recovering from addiction is a process of learning and changing. We offer a treatment program that is effective due to its individualized and structured approach. Our treatment program is comprehensive, with a person-centered approach that helps to heal. We offer a luxurious environment, a full continuum of care, and an aftercare program that you can rely on. If you or someone you love is struggling with addiction, we would be honored to help you on your road to recovery. To learn more about our treatment programs and how we can help you build positive structure in your life, call us today at (877) 484-1447.