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Continuing Care is an integral part of the treatment model at Sabino Recovery. Your time at Sabino is only a small fraction of your life and Continuing Care focuses on how to take the tools you’ll learn in treatment into your healthy life in recovery. As soon as you arrive, your Continuing Care Coordinator will work with you to ensure that your Sabino treatment plan will lead to continued success. 

As you proceed through treatment, you will learn things about yourself that you never imagined. You will profoundly change and grow so it makes sense that you’ll need time to adjust and need support to understand those changes and how to integrate them into your life. Continuing Care helps you plan your transition out of treatment. You’ll practice setting and enforcing boundaries, completing recovery goals, and continuing to take steps toward lifelong health. Your Continuing Care Coordinator will help you find a community that helps you maintain your sobriety and explore your interests outside of your addiction so you can focus on living a full, healthy life.

In this episode of A Wise Mind presented by Sabino Recovery, host Sam Zimmer is back with two of the Sabino Recovery Continuing Care Team, Shea Smith, Continuing Care Coordinator and Andrea Hovden-Hall, Continuing Care Manager. They discuss the importance of Continuing Care as part of Sabino’s treatment model and highlight some of the work we do at Sabino Recovery to make your transition back out of treatment and into your life in recovery as smooth as possible.

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Mental illness and substance abuse are frequently intertwined. Unfortunately, many treatment plans isolate either the symptoms of the substance abuse or the mental illness, rather than treating the whole person. Traditional recovery methodology can gloss over mental illness in favor of treating substance use disorders and vice versa. 

At Sabino, we treat the underlying trauma behind mental illness and substance abuse. We understand the prevalence of co-occurring disorders and take a more holistic approach so each of our residents finds true, long-term healing. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMSHA) uses the term co-occurring disorders for coexisting mental illness and substance abuse disorders.

In this episode of A wise mind presented by Sabino Recovery, host Sam Zimmer sits down with the Chief Medical Officer at Sabino Recovery, Dr. Aaron Wilson M.D. Sam and Dr Wilson discuss exactly what dual diagnosis or a co-occurring disorder is, the importance of treating the individual when they have a dual diagnosis and how Sabino Recovery treats those suffering with a dual diagnosis. 

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When a family member seeks treatment for mental health issues and addiction, it’s important for the whole family to play a role in recovery. The common misconception is that only the person who is seeking treatment needs help. This often creates an “identified patient” in the family. One person displays symptoms through addiction and mental illness but the reality is that the whole family system needs help. When the family is involved, it also helps the addicted person feel supported and makes lifelong recovery more possible.

When someone struggles with addiction and mental health issues, it’s common for their family and closest loved ones to deny that there’s a problem and ignore visible warning signs. Sometimes parents will even say things like, “My son doesn’t use drugs because he’s in his room all day.” Turning a blind eye either willfully or out of fear and not wanting to face the problem can cause further damage and enable the person who is suffering. 

Family members need to come to terms with what’s happening. Accepting that there’s a problem is the only way to get your loved one the help they need. Family therapy is a healthy environment where an objective therapist provides guidance and will guide your family through the recovery journey. It’s important to reconnect over positives and learn together as opposed to focusing on the “identified patient.”

In this episode of A Wise Mind Present by Sabino Recovery, host Sam Zimmer is joined by Dr. Vicki L. Loyer  Ph.D., LMFT, the CEO/President of Blue Door Psychotherapy. Dr. Loyer brings together the strength of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and the efficiency of Competency Focused Family Therapy to provide relief for families and help individuals and their families learn healthy coping mechanisms. Sam and Dr. Loyer discuss how families can care for a member of the family who is suffering from addiction and mental health issues. They also discuss the importance of healing family systems and how to improve family dynamics. 

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Our gut microbiomes have a huge impact on our overall mental and physical health. We’re still learning about the connections between gut health and mental health but plenty of research has shown that the health of our guts is instrumental in our overall health. Food is more than just fuel. Nutrition also affects the gut microbiome and from there, our mental and physical health. Instead of thinking about “good” or “bad” foods and perpetuating a harmful cycle of disordered eating, think of foods that nourish your gut and foods that disrupt your gut. 

Things like poor stress management, unprocessed trauma, lack of exercise, alcohol, drugs, and low-nutrient foods all lead to changes in gut health. There is also ample evidence that alcohol wreaks havoc on our guts. Chronic alcohol consumption can change the overall microbiome composition in our guts. It affects your body’s ability to detoxify itself and makes it more difficult to break down nutrients.

In this episode of A Wise Mind Presented By Sabino Recovery, podcast host Sam Zimmer, sits down with Leanna Stetson, MEd, a certified Holistic Nutritionist to discuss the role that your gut microbiome plays in your overall mental and physical health. The two discuss probiotics and other foods that can aid with your gut health and the role that stabilizing your gut microbiome has in recovery for alcoholism and addiction. 

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When a family member develops an addiction, it’s important for the entire family to be involved. The recovery journey is then about breaking a cycle, not just healing the individual. For many years, recovery was viewed as an individual journey. The addict went to treatment or joined a 12-step program and did the work. Research now shows that a family-centered approach to treatment leads to the highest chance of long-term recovery.

As opposed to approaching addiction as an individual problem, the treatment team at Sabino Recovery looks at how a family system exacerbates addictive behaviors. Inherited trauma can be carried through generations, creating systemic coping mechanisms. Often, a person with an addiction is manifesting a family system’s issues. By that same token, no individual family member is at fault for their loved one’s addictions.

In this episode of A Wise Mind, presented by Sabino Recovery, host Sam Zimmer sits down with Carver Brown, a Love First Interventionist and a certified Recovery Coach and Trainer with the Connecticut Community of Addiction Recovery (CCAR). Carver is also a Structured Family Recovery Counselor and a Grief Recovery Specialist certified with the Grief Recovery Institute. Carver studied under Deborah Jay, author of the book It Takes A  Family. Sam and Carver discuss the book and the role that family plays in treatment. The two touch on their own personal experiences with family, recovery, and the importance of a family support system when a loved one is going through treatment.  

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If you or a loved one needs someone to talk to, please use the resources below:

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(844) 809-1067

Which comes first, pain or anxiety? These two co-occurring disorders are so frequently linked that it can be difficult to untangle them because they create a vicious cycle.  Anxiety is a mental illness with many physical symptoms, including muscle soreness, digestive issues, TMJ, and headaches, making a correlation between pain and anxiety clear and difficult to separate.

Anxiety arises from not knowing where the pain is coming from, how long it will last, or if it will get worse. If we continue to suffer from the pain, anxiety could also come from other people not understanding or believing the depths of our pain. This is common as both anxiety and chronic pain are invisible illnesses that are frequently diminished by others.

On this week's episode of A Wise Mind, presented by Sabino Recovery, your host Sam Zimmer is joined by Dr. Andrea Elkon. She practices in Atlanta, GA, and specializes in working with athletes and active adults who are struggling with the emotional and physical effects of injury and illness. She also deals with anxiety, performance issues, perfectionism, and eating concerns. Sam and Dr. Elkon discuss the relationship between pain and anxiety and how the two can be brought on by the other. 

If you have questions, comments or just want to get involved in the conversation, please visit our podcast Facebook group:

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If you or a loved one needs someone to talk to, please use the resources below:

https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/national-helpline
1-800-662-4357

https://www.sabinorecovery.com/contact/ 
(844) 809-1067