Sober Living Chandler: Get Started at Changes

Changes Offers a Local Foundation for Sober Living in Chandler

Getting clean and sober after struggling with drugs or alcohol is quite an accomplishment! You might feel like you’ve emerged from a long, dark tunnel to find yourself basking in the sunshine. But while sobriety is a fantastic achievement, your commitment to ongoing recovery success must not waver.

Here’s some good news – when it comes to sober living, Chandler, AZ, and other nearby cities offer you the support and services you need in early recovery.

Changes Healing Center is a licensed, Joint Commission-accredited addiction treatment facility located in Phoenix and Scottsdale. We offer people all the assistance necessary to help Phoenix area residents recover from the grips of addiction.

Keep reading. You’ll discover answers to your questions about how to enjoy continued success and clean, sober living.

The Significance of Relapse Prevention and Aftercare Planning

People often discuss their rehab experience in terms of medical detox, counseling, and group therapy sessions. However, those important conversations miss another of the most important steps – relapse prevention planning.

Before a client leaves Changes Healing Center, we help each client create an aftercare plan. We want each person to feel empowered to make good choices and stay on a path to a full recovery after they leave treatment.

Tina’s Story Shows the Need for Planning Ahead to Avoid Relapse

‘Tina’ came from a rural town in northern Arizona that offered few options to assist her severe trauma needs. She came to Changes Healing Center for inpatient treatment for an addiction to prescription painkillers and PTSD after a car accident had killed her partner.

Tina had started using prescription drugs to ease the neck pain during the car wreck, which helped diminish the physical pain. However, she quickly noticed it also dulled her grief and trauma. When the doctor stopped prescribing it, she turned to street drugs.

Changes Healing Center prescribed medicine to help Tina stop using opioids. That was the easy part; the harder thing was helping Tina overcome losing the person she loved. We provided her with a supportive environment and offered intensive individual therapies.

A Comprehensive Array of Support Options

We also included family counseling, teaching her siblings about trauma and addiction. We further empowered her by offering her the chance to work with a therapist to develop a plan to stay clean and sober; Tina did a great job of goal setting and planning.

Tina left and went back to her home in northern Arizona. She had a lot of free time after leaving recovery; she decided to finish an additional career certification before returning to her job – she just needed more time to heal.

Opportunities to relapse arose – people she’d used with texted her and offered her the chance to buy heroin and fetty within a few days of returning home. But Tina remained steadfast and avoided the temptations by leaning on her aftercare plan, which included a 12-step program and avoiding the people who enabled drug use.

Some Choose Sober Living Homes: A Safe and Supportive Environment

Sober living homes provide clients with a unique path toward staying on the path to sobriety. They are a good option for anyone who does not have sober family support or otherwise clean and sober homes to return to after completing addiction treatment.

Here are some benefits of sober living homes:

Structure and Routine Are Part of a Recovery Home Program

A sober living home can be an excellent option for those who benefited from the highly structured environment of alcohol and drug rehab to begin transitioning back into daily life. They encourage residents continue forming healthy habits in ongoing recovery, such as establishing a nutritional and exercise routine.

Residents are accountable for their actions and follow house rules to remain in the program.

Sober Living Home Residents Form a Community

This housing option is unique because the residents understand each other well. Nobody can better understand the struggle to stop using drugs or alcohol than others who have been through the same process.

The residents form a community of others who support sobriety and have respect for each other.

Sober Living Homes Offer Safe Connections to Services and Resources

Clean and sober homes often provide residents with access to essential services and resources that can help further support recovery.

For instance, they often offer connections to career or job training at a local community college or GED classes at a public school adult learning program so that residents can re-enter the workforce.

In Chandler Arizona, several sober living homes offer transportation to nearby 12-step programs.

Sober Living Homes Encourage 12-Step Program Attendance

Attending a 12-step program (Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous) is highly recommended by Changes Healing Center and the most reputable sober living homes. Working the 12 steps provides ongoing structure and healing outside a recovery center.

Participants in 12-step programs in their hometowns or nearby cities solidify their community to ensure that they resist temptations and avoid relapse.

You can find AA groups in Chandler, AZ, by clicking here and NA groups in Chandler and or a short distance away by clicking here.

Contact Changes Healing Center to Start Your Recovery

Changes Healing Center, located in Scottsdale and Phoenix, can provide you with the solid footing you need in our inpatient or outpatient treatment locations. Our main goal is to help each person have a positive, effective recovery experience that will help them move past mental health struggles and open up a new chapter – a safe, clean life.

If you are ready for sobriety, call us today – we are open every day of the year; your call for help is confidential.