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26 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief segment, Amber Hollingsworth emphasizes that successful addiction recovery hinges less on the specific treatment program and more on the individual's decision to change, sustained motivation, and the creation of a personal system that keeps them on track long enough for sobriety to become easier. She advises clients that the initial weeks will be painful but short, and the primary task is to survive those first weeks without using. Rather than prescribing a detailed method, she encourages clients to devise their own plan—typically by identifying distractions and alternative activities—to fill the time previously occupied by substance use.

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It's not about which program is the right way to do it. It's about the decision to do it and the staying motivated to do it and the setting up some kind of system, whatever kind of system is going to work in order to keep you in the lines long enough for it to become easier and easier. And that's what I tell my clients. I'm like, this, this, this, this is going to hurt, but not for long. Okay. And all you got to do is you just got to figure out how to get through this first couple of weeks without using. And I don't even really tell them how to do it. I just say, well, Distract yourself. I don't know. Let's get a plan. What are you gonna do instead? And I'll let them come up with a plan.