At AToN Center the residents create beautiful floral arrangements as part of a mindfulness and meditation exercise. The exercise illustrates the unique way each individual approached problem solving.
Residents find the opportunity to tap into their creativity, to embrace nature and its natural flow, and to learn a healthy coping technique for reducing stress and developing balance.
Beautiful floral arrangements created by AToN residents.
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People who come to receive treatment at AToN come from a myriad of different backgrounds and cultures. Most share a common goal or bond, that is their desire to achieve freedom from the life damaging consequences of alcohol and drug use.
Developing and nurturing this bond with others is often an essential part of the recovery process. We encourage our residents to examine those ways in which they are a part of a greater whole, a community. We also assist them in finding ways to depend on others which are healthy for their recovery.
Recognition and further development of this bond can greatly help sustain the progress made during treatment and move recovering individuals away from factors which lead to relapse. Stay Connected!
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The decision to enter treatment for substance abuse is a commitment. It represents a commitment of time, energy and money. Your recovery will need to be nurtured over time if you truly want it to be lasting. One way of doing this is evaluating the resources you have, or “Recovery Capital.”
Recovery Capital is the sum total of resources that you have available to assist you in maintaining and building your recovery. Your capital includes social, physical, human, and cultural resources. It will include your knowledge, skills, and talents. It includes your ability to provide for your physical and mental health needs. It includes your ability to secure safe and sober housing.
It includes those values and beliefs you maintain which support a sober-based lifestyle. It will also include those resources you have from belonging to a peer-support recovery group. These resources all contribute to your investment being successful…the greatest investment you have, YOU!
Joshua Persoff, CADC-II
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Drinking and using drugs creates an artificial sense of comfort and security. We might find ourselves searching in the bottle, the medicine cabinet, or the local street corner for something to assist us in fulfilling that basic human need, to feel connected.
Engaging with nature is one way to achieve this in recovery. Being amongst the elements; ocean, earth, and mountains, it becomes possible to increase our awareness of the harmony that exists all around us, all of the time.
Taking time to acknowledge the natural flow of things can bring us back to that which is important. We begin to see our own place with the natural flow of the world and stop incessantly fighting for things to go our own way…we can be in harmony with the world, just as it is, perfectly.
Joshua Persoff, CADC-II
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October was a busy month here at AToN’s San Diego Rehab. We had the opportunity to serve a large number of people who had previously been struggling with the debilitating consequences of substance abuse. We saw a great number of those people make the type of changes which build the foundation for a rich and recovery-based lifestyle.
The focus on a recovery paradigm as opposed to a disease paradigm is gradually evolving towards an evidence-based system of care. More of our residents are using sober coaches, monitoring services and holistic treatment – based providers to sustain their recovery after treatment stays here at AToN. We can greatly benefit from looking at recovery from this type of perspective, one in which we look towards those activities which produce personal wellness, motivate, and inspire us.
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Many of the residents who enter treatment at AToN express a desire to explore alternate paths for achieving and sustaining recovery. At AToN we encourage residents in this endeavor by having them examine all aspects of self; physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. This spiritual aspect can be mysterious or elusive.
During our week-end spirituality groups I offer the idea of spirituality as a means of connecting. While this might mean connecting to something larger such as the universe or a higher power, it can be as simple as connecting with our true and more authentic self. The wisdom we receive from simply taking the time to listen mindfully can be astonishingly revealing about the path towards recovery.
Joshua Persoff, CADC-II
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Each one of our lives is a story being told. We get the unique opportunity in our story to be both author and reader, to decide how the story will unfold. Looking at life in this way can create a sense of power and control, the idea that I can decide what will happen in the following chapter. How will you write the next chapter of your story?
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