LDS Life Skills Classes

How LDS Life Skills Classes Assist Addiction Recovery

If you harbor concerns about a loved one’s addictions, one of the most compassionate steps you can take to offer assistance is by turning to Lion’s Gate Recovery. Our rehab program draws upon LDS Life Skills classes to offer support to recovering addicts. These essential courses, coupled with faith, supply people with the tools required to resist temptations. They help recovering addicts respond more resiliently to life’s daily stresses and challenges.

Addressing a Life-Long Problem

A variety of different psychosocial factors contribute to individual addiction issues. Nationally, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reports that addicts in the United States suffer relapses at a rate between 40% and 60%. 

These grim statistics indicate that effective addiction recovery programs must supply more than basic medical substance detoxification. Assisting someone to become clean and sober provides a short term benefit. For lasting, genuinely life-changing results, addicts and their loved ones should consider participating in additional phases of treatment.

Four Pillars of Effective Treatment

The most effective and lasting addiction recovery programs involve several processes. These include four important pillars for success:

Basic Medical Detox: life-saving medical treatment for an addiction that removes alcohol, drugs, nicotine or other addictive substances from the body;
Life Skills Classes and Counseling: programs enabling addicts to cope better with daily life and psychosocial issues;
Family Recovery Support Groups: sessions addressing the concerns and emotional issues of spouses and household members;
Spiritual Resources: offering the faith-based tools and materials that nourish and sustain faith during addiction recovery and throughout life.

By approaching addiction recovery as a long term, lifelong process, you’ll assist your loved one in developing the inner resources and tools necessary to prevail against addictions more effectively. A strong foundation in the LDS faith coupled with the support and caring of loved ones contributes enormously towards this goal.

LDS Social Programs

Over the course of many years, the LDS Church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints), has dedicated time and energy towards combating many pervasive social issues, ranging from poverty to hunger to addiction. The Church has also developed a 12-step program based upon spiritual principles to assist Mormons recovering from addictions. It encourages recovering addicts to participate in LDS life skills classes during treatment similar to those offered by Lion’s Gate Recovery.

Lion’s Gate Recovery also offers spousal and family support groups to help care for all of the people most impacted by an addict. This service offers valuable assistance in examining the damaging consequences of substance abuse and helping impacted family members recover from stress. LDS programs directed towards substance abuse issues have aided many families around the world in achieving enduring addiction recovery.

Lion’s Gate Recovery Offers Long Term Tools

When our clients complete our recovery program they leave the facility clean and sober. With the LDS life skills they have gained, they will not be at the mercy of the same self-destructive patterns which created addiction issues for them in the first place. The strong foundation in the LDS faith and essential life skills they gained during treatment will help them respond more resiliently to stresses and temptations.

Everyone faces stresses and challenges during the course of daily life. Recovering addicts face particular vulnerabilities to very self-destructive behavior patterns. By devoting time during the rehab process to helping them identify and manage stressful elements in their lives, Lion’s Gate Recovery arms patients with powerful tools and skills for coping with challenges more constructively. Our LDS faith-based program empowers people with mechanisms that will assist them in maintaining long term addiction recovery goals.

Daily Life Skills

Many types of skills assist people in responding to stress, problems and temptations. A solid grounding in the LDS faith enables internalization of these tools. Lion’s Gate Recovery seeks to ensure that patients do not leave our program without appreciating the behaviors that will assist them in creating happier, more productive and more satisfying lives. We offer a positive and enriching treatment environment.

Just a few of these very practical, essential life skills include:

– Empathy

– Decision Making

– Interpersonal Relationships

– Self-Awareness

– Assertiveness

– Problem Solving

– Resilience and Coping Skills.

Recovering addicts who evaluate their lives in light of important life skill sets may grow and learn from their past experiences. By assisting patients in attaining practical skills that help them direct stress through positive channels, Lion’s Gate Recovery strives to strengthen them as human beings.

The Power of Faith

Our program also recognizes the power of spiritual faith as a means to accomplish permanent self-transformations. The LDS Church provides access to useful, practical resources and religious teachings as a way to help people absorb and incorporate spirituality into their lives. No one should discount the significance of this process in attaining mastery over life’s challenges.

Recovering addicts require positive, uplifting and secure environments during the treatment process, since they must address many personal issues honestly. Your recovering loved one deserves the opportunity to evaluate his or her life in a caring environment. We provide this type of safe location for our patients as they grapple with identifying the underlying causes of their addictions.

Positive Outcomes

What types of positive outcomes does Lion’s Gate Recovery envision for recovering addicts? Although individual treatment plans and recovery goals may vary widely, we seek to provide our patients with compassionate assistance in achieving significant changes in their lives:

–  Effective, Safe Medical Detoxification

– A Safe, Secure Treatment Environment

– Access to Materials That Promote Spiritual Growth in the LDS Faith

– A Focus on Addiction Recovery

– Honest Therapy Programs

– Social Detoxification to Help Patients Remove Negative Influences

– Supporting Environments for Loved Ones

– Enduring Changes to Promote Lifelong Recovery.

By introducing recovering addicts to a supportive, nurturing and devout culture, Lion’s Gate Recovery works to actualize self-transformation. We seek to assist patients in re-ordering their lives in a way that will improve their decision making and coping skills.

They must learn to recognize potentially negative or dangerous situations that could lead to an addiction relapse in order to avoid placing themselves in harm’s way once they leave the treatment facility. Additionally, recovering addicts who discover ways to tap into the spiritual support provided by strong faith derive remarkable long term benefits. They gain the ability to choose alternative pathways readily for their lives when confronted with temptations.

Support For Spouses And Family Members

Additionally, Lion’s Gate Recovery does not neglect the mental and emotional health of spouses and family members. We treat patients in a holistic way that also pays attention to their social support networks. Our LDS-focused programs recognize the importance of addressing the needs of loved ones impacted by a patient’s addictive behaviors.

Many families of addicted patients or recovering addicts have suffered years of abuse as a result of negative, addictive patterns of behavior. Lies, thefts, and repeated disappointments may take a cruel toll on family harmony. While recovering addicts evaluate their lives in a safe and secure environment, we encourage those closest to them to participate in faith-based support groups in order to come to terms with underlying painful emotions and behaviors.

Attending support groups may assist concerned family members in learning the best ways to aid recovering addicts. Simply living with someone who undergoes significant personal change can prove very stressful. Optimal outcomes result when families participate in providing support networks to encourage lifelong addiction recovery.

Promoting Family Well-Being

In some cases, the family situations of recovering addicts have contributed to a household culture of substance abuse in very direct ways. Other patients may come from family backgrounds that unwittingly enabled or facilitated substance abuse.

By encouraging your loved one to undertake treatment at Lion’s Gate Recovery, you’ll help launch an addict on a sometimes challenging course of self-revelations. This process represents a compassionate step. It will contribute over the course of time to a more positive future for the entire family.

Important Issues

When you consider the best treatment program for an addiction, answering several questions provides an excellent starting point. For example:

– Does the program provide high-quality medical detoxification?

– How long does the facility offer support services?

– Will the program equip recovering addicts with long-term life skills?

– Does treatment include faith-based concerns?

– Will the program help empower recovering addicts to respond resiliently to daily life?

– What attention does the treatment program pay to the needs of other family members?

Take Action Today!

Making a decision to open your life to the beneficial spiritual influences of LDS treatment programs represents a significant step. You’ll assist your loved one by honestly evaluating the full course of treatments required for lifelong addiction recovery.