My name is Jennifer and I'm an alcoholic/addict. I'm clean and sober today, and I'm also a recovery coach student. I'd never heard of recovery coaching back in the day, and I wonder if one might have been helpful. I'd like to be for others what I wish I'd had - a partner on the path.
I am required to practice coaching and am hoping to find volunteers here, and because I am a student - there is no charge.
I will preface with this: Coaching is NOT therapy - I am not a therapist. Coaching is not sponsorship - I am not a sponsor. Coaching is something that can be utilized in addition to having a sponsor and / or a therapist. Coaches usually have a focus - like I do in recovery, but the coach most people have heard of (outside a coach in sports) is a Life Coach.
Coaches also use some of the following distinctions: wellness, business, end of life, and relationship.
My job as a coach is to help my clients find their own answers to issues they bring to the discussion. Discovery and goal setting are two of our primary focuses.
You're the author of your future. Your coach can help you write it.
Coaching doesn't involve 12 Step work and it doesn't focus on the traditions. It's about focusing on personal growth.
Unlike sponsorship - where it is suggested that a sponsor have some time in recovery before taking on the role - coaching requires patience, an ability to actively listen and ask open ended questions, and a capacity to allow the client to find his or her OWN answers. The coach is not in the role of providing answers or leading clients to answers. The coach's role is to help clients reach their own conclusions because they have their own answers.
Coaching isn't sponsorship, mentoring, consulting or therapy. It's a collaboration of sorts.
"Recovery coaching is a form of strengths-based support for persons with addictions or in recovery from alcohol, other drugs, codependency, or other addictive behaviors. Recovery coaches work with persons with active addictions as well as persons already in recovery."
Coaching is "Partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential..."
No, I'm not advertising. I'm asking for help - I'm a student in recovery studying to become a recovery coach. That's the same thing as a life coach with a designation in recovery (my language).
Hi MicroMacro.
I am a Recovery Coach too. I have two credentials in place. But I am here as as a recovering addict.
I do not advertise my RC status here.
I am a member here at MIP from the year 2005.
This certainly is not the place to find clients. As stated earlier, it is a contravention of Traditions 6 and 8.
Best wishes. I hope you will help many addicts in their recovery.
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