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Hi Tyler, please allow me to introduce myself, I am Percy Covington and I am here to explain to you about life coaching/sponsor from active addiction. I like to share with you about my experience as a life coach/sponsor. I coach, plain and simple, and the results achieved by those I have worked with indicate a high success rate. I am not a therapist or addiction counselor, I am a recovered addict professionally trained and experienced in coaching success. I am an active member of a 12 step fellowship and have been for years. I work the steps as best I can on a daily basis and incorporate the steps into my coaching practice.

Timing is an essential part of learning how to stay clean one day at a time. So Tyler what do you think? Are you will to stop using lose the desire and find a new way to live? Well if you ansawer is yes, then you are well on your way

Everyone who has ever lived with an active addiction to any drug or alcohol is at risk of relapse. Trigger types and the number of repetitions of that trigger before relapse varies from person to person, but everyone has a threshold of tolerance and many people cross it at some point in their drug or alcohol recovery.

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Q: How does addiction coaching fit in with what addiction professionals already know?

A: Addiction coaching provides recovery support after acute addiction treatment.

Most addiction professionals are trained to work with acute episodes of addiction in a treatment setting such as a drug rehab center. But as public funding and private money for treatment dries up, all the talk is about recovery support. We know that support must go beyond stabilization of drug or alcohol use and we now know that abstinence is not enough.

People want rewarding lives in recovery. That is where addiction coaches can help. We help make recovery worth it by enhancing lives. Good addiction coaching teaches you to co-create so that you can live better. Addiction coaching should also be 1 on 1, be client focused....

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