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Promoting Emotional Wellness in Recovery

When beginning the road to recovery and wellness, it can take a toll on one’s mental health. Fortunately, there are plenty of ways that you can support your emotional well-being along the way. The experts at Tranquil Shores are here to share some tips to help you to look after your mental health and wellness while you navigate the road toward recovery.

Try Journaling

Like many people, you may have kept a diary or a journal in your younger years to keep your secrets and inner thoughts and feelings. Believe it or not, you were on the right track when it comes to regulating your mental health and wellness!

Research has shown that journaling can provide you with the following mental health benefits:

  • Reducing stress.
  • Managing anxiety.
  • Improving written and verbal communication skills.
  • Strengthening critical thinking skills.
  • Helps you to identify potential triggers.
  • Helps you track your symptoms.

Practice Positive Affirmations

While practicing positive affirmations is typically thought of as a spiritual and magical experience, there is research that suggests that your words can affect how you think and feel. By willing yourself positive phrases to overcome negative thoughts, you can give yourself the following benefits:

  • Reducing stress levels.
  • Becoming more receptive to feedback.
  • Improving self-esteem.
  • Improving self-confidence.

Find a New Hobby

When in recovery, you may find yourself with a newfound influx of free time now that you aren’t spending it feeding previous habits. What better time than now to pick up a new hobby that you enjoy?

Along with filling your free time with productive activities, research has shown that hobbies can help support your emotional wellness in the following ways:

  • Easing distressing emotions.
  • Helping build new, positive relationships.
  • Building self-confidence,
  • Helping you to regulate your emotions.
  • Fosters Feelings of commitment and responsibility.

Seeking Help at Tranquil Shores

Whether you’re recovering from alcohol or drug addiction, Tranquil Shores can help you every step of the way toward wellness and recovery. Our experienced clinical team of addiction experts is dedicated to providing unique and personalized therapy to those looking for help with substance use disorders in Florida.

Please call us at (727) 391-7001 or contact us online to take the first step on the road to recovery today

Reviewed By

Chad Johnson

Chad Johnson is the founder and CEO of Tranquil Shores, a leading dual diagnosis treatment facility that was founded in 2009. Through Chad’s own personal experience he developed what he believed to be a successful model to treat individual’s with co-occurring disorders. Although there are many ways to address addiction, Chad believes that creating an individualized approach can lay the foundation for long term success in recovery. Chad understands the true consequences of addiction. Chad spent most his early adulthood in Dallas, Texas working for a successful Wall Street investment firm. With hard work came a high level of success. After a thirteen year career in finance, all of that changed. Chad’s addiction progressed to the point where he lost his job, family, and friends. He eventually found himself homeless and living in his car.

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