How pH Wellness Integrates Physical Well-Being into Addiction Recovery
Addiction is a disease that impacts your mental and physical health and well-being. It derails your life, and the changes that occur in the brain and body due to substance use make it difficult to take a turn toward a different life. However, integrating physical well-being into addiction recovery at pH Wellness can help. By engaging your body and mind through fitness, nutrition, and health, you heal in a highly effective and unique manner. This synergy between fitness and recovery is different but truly helps you to build a life of health and balance that supports your recovery from addiction long-term.
Integrating Physical Well-Being at pH Wellness
pH Wellness understands the value of improving health in rehab and, therefore, integrates fitness, nutrition, and health seamlessly into addiction treatment. The treatment center has a state-of-the-art gym. It has equipment for yoga, weight-lifting, cardiovascular exercise, and more. Clients are encouraged to find a form of exercise that they enjoy, which can be a combination of different options.
In addiction treatment, clients' schedules are highly regulated. Fitness and health are built into this schedule at pH Wellness. Therefore, fitness becomes a normal part of the day. The specific routine is unique for each individual, as it is built around what is most helpful for you. Additionally, pH wellness integrates other health and wellness practices. This includes healthy, nutritious food in residential care and other holistic treatments.
Building Physical Well-Being With Community
Physical fitness is not a solitary activity at pH wellness. Members of the staff, including CEO Matt Paz, actively engage in workouts. Matt and others lead workouts while clients benefit from Matt's deep knowledge of a variety of fitness and health practices.
Due to fitness being a community affair at pH Wellness, you build a strong sense of community and camaraderie through fitness. You get to be engaged with the staff in a very unique manner by working out alongside them. As a result, you build a more in-depth level of trust and deeper relationships with them.
In addition to getting to know the staff better, fitness routines at pH Wellness also help you build community with other clients. Through addiction, your physical health suffers. Therefore, as you rebuild your health, you will be surrounded by others who are doing the same. This process of building fitness after addiction is challenging, but being around others who are in the same boat can help encourage you to keep going and know that you can slowly improve with consistency and practice.
Benefits of Improving Physical Well-Being in Treatment
Improving physical well-being in treatment helps you to turn around your life. It does so by assisting you in rewiring your brain and building healthier long-term habits. As a result, fitness plays an integral role in helping you rebuild your life after addiction.
Rewiring Your Brain
When you are using drugs and alcohol, the substances you use interact with your brain. They rewire your brain and deplete your serotonin and dopamine levels. As a result, your mental and physical health is negatively affected.
Fitness helps you by causing a release of endorphins that make you feel good. When these are released they can help to reduce your cravings, making it easier to get through difficult moments. However, they also help you see that you can feel good due to something other than drugs or alcohol.
Building Long-Term Habits
When you are in recovery, your long-term habits protect you from relapse. However, the habits that you have before treatment often do not serve your needs in recovery. Therefore, in treatment, building long-term recovery helps your long-term sobriety.
Your fitness and health depend on your habits. This is because you will not always have motivation. However, when fitness and health are a part of your normal day, it is significantly easier to keep on track. The first part of building a habit is starting one. Then, over time, your habitual actions become normal in your life.
In treatment, you are put on a strict schedule, including workouts. This helps you build a habit of incorporating fitness into your daily regular schedule. Once you are out of treatment, your schedule will differ from what it was in treatment; however, the knowledge of how to maintain a schedule and what will work for you will help.
Combining Fitness and Addiction Treatment
pH wellness incorporates fitness and health practices into addiction treatment. However, fitness is effective in this environment, not as a separate practice but as an integrated system. This unique synergy between fitness and addiction treatment is highly effective.
When you combine fitness and addiction treatment, you are combining the practical aspects of fitness with the support, care, and treatment that you need in counseling. Together, they work wonders. It relies on your involvement in both aspects of care at pH Wellness.
At pH Wellness, we have a highly effective fitness-centric approach. We believe that the combination of fitness and addiction treatment helps you regain your balance, health, and wellness back after addiction. Through fitness, you rewire your brain and build long-term habits that support you in recovery. If you are struggling with addiction, you can make changes and build skills that help you to make long-term changes. Our staff at pH Wellness can provide you with support, care, and structure that can make a true difference in your life. To learn more about our treatment center and integrated fitness program or how we can help you, call us today at (951) 262-8046.