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4.14 RELAPSE PREVENTION
Relapse is a common experience when people change habits.
Relapse Prevention is about revealing and resolving those
issues that has been sabotaging your progress or recovery
process. Relapse can encompass behavior or drug addiction.
After changin one habit or recovering from one addiction, people
are at risk to become cross addicted or dually addicted to sex,
gambling, work, caffeine, food, you name it. We call this
changing seats on the titanic.
Or they recovery become plagued with depression or anxiety.
The true goal of going to a change process or recovering from a
bad attitude, habit or addiction, is to be comfortable in your
own skin, living life peacefully. Relapse Prevention is about
assisting the coachee in revealing and resolving those issues
that drove them to the wrong choices. Relapse prevention will
give them the freedom from bondage to live peacefully in their
own skin.
Relapse Prevention Coaching includes:
False Beliefs – Research evidence indicates that major
predictors of relapse risk are belief systems consistent with
negative models (‘I’m too weak to change’), and the absence
of coping skills.
What you do comes out of your beliefs about yourself, others
and God. In order to have a new life, not just a change of
destructive behavior, you must examine your current belief
systems.
Identity - Begin to identify and detach from unhealthy things
you've put your faith in and used to cope with life. You will
learn how these things have under-mind your attempts at
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