Comments on: How to Stay Clean after Leaving Drug Rehab http://www.spiritualriver.com/how-to-stay-clean-after-leaving-drug-rehab/ Non-traditional recovery from addiction Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:09:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Cheryl Andrewshttp://www.spiritualriver.com/how-to-stay-clean-after-leaving-drug-rehab/comment-page-4/#comment-132120 Cheryl Andrews Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:51:52 +0000 http://www.spiritualriver.com/wordpress-2.0.4/wordpress/?p=85#comment-132120 I would like to say that I agree wholeheartedly with the person who mentioned holistic treatment centres. I have been to four treatment centres, went back to using after the first three that were 12 step based. I finished my latest treatment centre the end of september. It was holistic and so very much more effective for me than any other one. It really made a world of difference. I do wish there were more meetings that were holistic also. I haven't been to a meeting since I came out of treatment for two reasons. One of them is that I live in a very small town where there are only the odd AA meetings and they are very old school, and NA is much more up my alley. The other reason is that I'm just not enthusiastic about the whole 12 step thing. I am moving to a city nearby at the end of this month, and have been considering going to meetings after I move, mostly to meet up with others who are clean. I find myself wondering if that's a good idea though, given the fact that I'm not much into the step. I don't want to be a hypocrite. I would appriciate hearing other people's opinions about this. In writing this, I am hoping it finds the reader(s) having a good day and loving been clean and real. Cheryl I would like to say that I agree wholeheartedly with the person who mentioned holistic treatment centres. I have been to four treatment centres, went back to using after the first three that were 12 step based. I finished my latest treatment centre the end of september. It was holistic and so very much more effective for me than any other one. It really made a world of difference. I do wish there were more meetings that were holistic also. I haven’t been to a meeting since I came out of treatment for two reasons. One of them is that I live in a very small town where there are only the odd AA meetings and they are very old school, and NA is much more up my alley. The other reason is that I’m just not enthusiastic about the whole 12 step thing. I am moving to a city nearby at the end of this month, and have been considering going to meetings after I move, mostly to meet up with others who are clean. I find myself wondering if that’s a good idea though, given the fact that I’m not much into the step. I don’t want to be a hypocrite. I would appriciate hearing other people’s opinions about this.
In writing this, I am hoping it finds the reader(s) having a good day and loving been clean and real.
Cheryl

]]> By: chrissy eatonhttp://www.spiritualriver.com/how-to-stay-clean-after-leaving-drug-rehab/comment-page-4/#comment-129505 chrissy eaton Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:29:19 +0000 http://www.spiritualriver.com/wordpress-2.0.4/wordpress/?p=85#comment-129505 Hi , I was just surfing and i been clean for about 6 monthes now and at one time in my life i had 5 years clean and sober !!!!!!! The one thing i want to share the day someone told me that i was strong enough to stop doing what i used to stay clean and sober was the drinking spirit finding the way to get back into me !! the bad thing is i was unaware of the power of the spirit world and over a period of 4 monthes i was drinking again !! As I looked back at that time I felt the second that person said that all my doors i closed slowly opened up ........ THE one thing is that i take owner ship on my actions !!!! The funny thing is what happened 24 years ago came back to me in the same way and ended in the way !! See i look at that after i picked myself up and got clean and sober again is that i needed more wisdom and i need to noursed to healthy thinking, living, and emtional to overcome my down falls i want to say more and ill leave you with that note chrissy eaton Hi ,
I was just surfing and i been clean for about 6 monthes now and at one time in my life i had 5 years clean
and sober !!!!!!! The one thing i want to share the day someone told me that i was strong enough to stop
doing what i used to stay clean and sober was the drinking spirit finding the way to get back into me !!
the bad thing is i was unaware of the power of the spirit world and over a period of 4 monthes i was
drinking again !! As I looked back at that time I felt the second that person said that all my doors i closed
slowly opened up …….. THE one thing is that i take owner ship on my actions !!!!
The funny thing is what happened 24 years ago came back to me in the same way and ended in the way !! See i look at that after i picked myself up and got clean and sober again is that i needed more
wisdom and i need to noursed to healthy thinking, living, and emtional to overcome my down falls

i want to say more and ill leave you with that note

chrissy eaton

]]> By: eddiehttp://www.spiritualriver.com/how-to-stay-clean-after-leaving-drug-rehab/comment-page-4/#comment-129285 eddie Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:56:39 +0000 http://www.spiritualriver.com/wordpress-2.0.4/wordpress/?p=85#comment-129285 Staying clean is harder than getting clean, I was clean for 1 year 3 months and then I fell back. I lost my job and had relationship problems, and personal problems and how I felt about myself. That's when I started using again to help me deaden the hurt and self hatred it was yet again that crutch. Maybe if I had been in meetings witch I was not because I thought I was tough enough to handle it, now I'm so sorry that I didn't have the support when I needed it. I've just destroyed my 1year 3month stint and now have to start at day 1. I was of track for 4 months mostly in denial but I'm 3 days clean again and back on my way to that 1 year mark. Staying clean is harder than getting clean, I was clean for 1 year 3 months and then I fell back. I lost my job and had relationship problems, and personal problems and how I felt about myself. That’s when I started using again to help me deaden the hurt and self hatred it was yet again that crutch. Maybe if I had been in meetings witch I was not because I thought I was tough enough to handle it, now I’m so sorry that I didn’t have the support when I needed it. I’ve just destroyed my 1year 3month stint and now have to start at day 1. I was of track for 4 months mostly in denial but I’m 3 days clean again and back on my way to that 1 year mark.

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