Addiction/Habit Change
Stop Smoking Support
Free Yourself From Nicotine
If you’re reading this, you already know the facts about nicotine – and you probably have many feelings about it, too.
Whether you smoke it or chew it, or whether you’re here to get support in dealing with someone’s else’s nicotine habit, most likely you have feelings about yourself as well.
One thing is true: Taking action on any behavior that’s dogged you takes courage. You don’t have to do this alone.
At Stillpoint, because one size doesn’t fit all, we offer a range of services for dealing directly with your addiction to nicotine (such as acupuncture, hypnosis or functional medicine). We also have resources to support you in dealing with health conditions and other problems in living that are associated with this situation (nutrition counseling, body-oriented work, group support).
Contact us to begin exploring your options.
Get There, Stay There: Manage Stress In Recovery
Right now, as you’re sitting here reading this, slow yourself down and take a d-e-e-p breath.
Notice how you feel. Be attentive particularly to sensations and physical feelings. Do you feel achy here, soft there, stiff here and fidgety there?
Take another deep breath. Focus on one of those physical feelings. We’ve learned in our modern world to put mental functioning first. Step back from that. If your thoughts wander, re-focus on what’s happening physically.
Is your chest tight? Do you feel loose and open in your face? Are you tense in your belly? Is your back braced?
Managing stress in recovery is like everything else. It takes practice.
The first step is noticing and acknowledging what is. Noticing is only the start, however. Learning to manage the tightness, or looseness or tension, that involves practice, too.
The Deep Recovery approach is a different kind of physical fitness program, one that involves discovering how much your thoughts and feelings can be re-organized by working through the body. You’ll learn to go beyond just noticing into working directly with your muscular action patterns, so that you are at the helm of your own life.
So if the promise of the program seems out-of-reach for you, consider adding a different approach to enhance your recovery.
If you are doing everything your sponsor suggests and then some, you’ll no longer be puzzled when peace-of-mind is fleeting, because you’ll have specific tools to address this.
Contact us to get started.
Beyond The 12-Steps: Deep Recovery
You’ve devoted yourself to your healing journey, a recovery path that has changed your life. You’re grateful.
And now, this success brings dilemmas to test your resolve, your commitment to recovery.
This is not your fault. It’s simply time to deal with underlying patterns that remain.
Whether these concerns are obviously related to your old behavior or things you just weren’t ready to deal with before, you know that if you don’t deal with them, they could lead you back into trouble.
And you don’t want to go there.
Addictions Share Themes
It is human to habituate. How else would you have ever learned to ride a bike or drive a car, or do anything that involved repeating skills, even brushing your teeth!
Early recovery involves replacing self-destructive habits with life-affirming behaviors. Some of this change involve doing (going to meetings, calling your sponsor) and some involve not doing (not being so helpful, not being around slippery people, places or things).
Some of your new habits are a good thing — getting serious about fitness, for example. Being obsessive about fitness, though, not so much.
Some of your new habits might be a fair trade in the short run. Starting smoking or smoking more, for instance, is a fair trade keeps you from getting another DUI. Over the long haul, though, many recovering people say that nicotine is the hardest drug to kick.
All addictions, whether the objects of your desire were alcohol or television, gambling or food, heroin or love, share common themes:
Most treatment programs, and many self-help programs, focus on a specific substance or activity to which a person is addicted.
However, there is another option. Addressing the themes shared by all addictions creates possibilities for deeper healing and honors the developmental process of recovery.
Working through the body is an effective approach for supporting this deepening process.
The Body As Source of Healing
Deep Recovery is an approach to self-knowing that is based on physical experience — so that your body, once a vehicle for self-abuse, can become a source of healing. Through Deep Recovery you can: