Improving Life Skills Starts With Self-Awareness


For teens who struggle with mental health challenges or substance abuse, improving life skills is important. Treatment for mental health challenges and substance abuse at Sustain Recovery focuses on helping teens build life skills that will help them care for […]

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How Self-Awareness Helps Teens Heal From Substance Abuse


Helping teens heal from substance abuse has a significant impact on their lives, both in adolescence and adulthood. To effectively help teens, it is important that they learn skills that protect them from further challenges with their mental health and […]

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Decreasing Your Teen’s Risk of Relapse Through Self-Awareness


When your teen has struggled with substance abuse, it is natural to be concerned about their risk of relapse. Getting your teen help through treatment is the first step. However, after treatment, it is important that your teen continue to […]

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How to Help Your Teen Stay Self-Aware After Treatment


When your teen comes home from treatment, they are in the process of healing. Your teen has undergone many changes in treatment, including learning skills that make a significant difference in their life. However, while they have built a foundation […]

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When a teen is struggling with their mental health, it impacts the entire family. However, due to the many changes occurring in a teen’s development, it can be hard to know specifically what is occurring in terms of mental health […]

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Addiction and Mental Health: A Bi-Directional Relationship in Teens


Many teens experience ups and downs in their daily life. Some of these ups and downs are normal. However, for some teens, it is due to challenges with addiction and mental health. In teens, mental health and addiction often go […]

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When an adolescent is struggling with their mental health, they may struggle with many different co-occurring issues, including substance abuse. While treatment for addiction and substance abuse is important, mental health treatment is also vital for adolescents to heal. It […]

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When adolescents experience trauma, they are impacted in many ways. This includes mental health effects that cause daily issues in a teen’s life and their development. As a result, trauma in adolescents creates the need for mental health treatment that […]

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When your teen is struggling, you may wonder if they are going through the normal ups and downs of adolescence. However, if they are experiencing mental health symptoms, it could be a result of trauma or a mental health disorder. […]

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As a parent of a teen struggling with a mental health disorder, it is difficult to know what the best course of action is for treatment. For many teens, a combination of treatments is most effective. This often includes medication. […]

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Sustain Recovery changed my life in a way I never considered remotely possible. I arrived in a place where I knew nobody. Sustain Recovery gave me tools so that I never had to be alone again. I learned how to live like an adult and have genuine relationships with other human beings. I gained a sense of self respect, love, and pride from the challenges I was given by staff. I was able to work through the recent loss of my father and I achieved my goal of not taking any psychiatric medication.
I learned that life is an endless balancing act. I have to continually work on myself and my relationships with the people in my life. The staff at Sustain Recovery are all incredibly experienced and spiritual. They were available to me whether I wanted their help or not. Through their efforts and experience, I experienced the inner workings of having an intimate, loving relationship with a loving creator.
Sustain Recovery is “home” for me. I discovered a loving, caring family that helped launch me to a place I would have never dreamed and, if I would have dreamed it, I would never have believed I would be able to accomplish it.

K.C.
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