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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 imagi...

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 ...

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 make...

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 food...

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, t...

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 c...