Fitness and Wellness

Fitness and Wellness

Fitness and Wellness at New Life Addiction Rehab Islamabad

Wellness at Addiction Rehab Islamabad

Wellness & Fitness are about paying attention to an individual's mind, body, and spiritual well-being. At Addiction Rehab Islamabad, we incorporate many different programming, techniques, methods, and activities into our weekly program to allow individuals the introduction or continuation to focus on the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual contentment.

Fitness at New Life Addiction Rehab Islamabad

Fitness in Addiction Recovery is incredibly important. Fitness allows individuals to keep themselves healthy. At New Life Addiction Rehab Islamabad, maintaining a healthy lifestyle means many different things, but mainly, it's about taking care of your physical and mental health.

What is Wellness?

Wellness is a proactive approach to an individual's health. Looking after one's wellness means taking a step back, and looking around and asking: What is missing? What do I need more of? Am I taking care of my mental health? Am I happy?

An individual's physical well-being is incredibly important in addiction recovery, but so is overall wellness. It incorporates a multitude of factors such as mental health, family, sleep, housing, employment, relationships, finances, nutrition, communication, and so much more.

Wellness helps individuals understand their own social determinants of health, which incorporate neighborhoods, economic stability, education, social, community, health care, housing, food, and employment.

What is Fitness?

According to many Addiction Research studies, exercise is an important factor in a daily routine in Addiction Recovery. Adding exercise into a daily routine promotes a better quality of life, enhanced positivity, helps heal the brain (from active addiction impairment) and strengthens mindfulness of the mind, body, and soul.

Fitness has a lot of benefits for individuals in Addiction Recovery:

• Reduce potential health risks
• Enhance energy to do things we love — playing with kids, sports, going for walks, jogging, swimming, yoga and dancing
• Build physical strength
• Build muscular strength
• Build endurance
• Enhance flexibility
• Learn discipline and scheduling

The Wellness Services We Offer at New Life Addiction Rehab Islamabad

Physical Wellness

Onsite Nurses (Day & Nights): Our health-care team provides onsite physical health check-ins during each day and night. The onsite nurses make sure each individual is safe during detox and post-detox, offering support and education to prevent and decrease current and potential health risks and/or disease.

Weekly Doctor Visits: During each individual's intake, they are provided an opportunity to meet with our doctors who are Addiction Specialists. Our doctors do weekly check-ins, helping individuals with withdrawal symptoms and supporting them to come off substances.

Mental Wellness

Mental Wellness means taking care of your mind and soul — focusing on mental health, mindfulness, and counselling. A specialized Addiction treatment plan utilizes an array of programming to help rewire the brain toward mental well-being and sobriety. The Wellness treatment programming offered includes:

• One on One Counselling
• Psychotherapy
• Mindfulness through Yoga, Reiki, Walks, Breathing Techniques, Independent Reflections, and Journaling
• Meditation
• Anger Management Programming
• Stress Management Programming
• Music Therapy

Nutrition

• Fitness through our gym, walks, recreational activities
• And more

Emotional Wellness

For so long, individuals have been burdened with the idea that being emotional and vulnerable means being weak, but it's important to embrace emotions as a key part of the addiction recovery process. We focus on the emotional aspect of addiction recovery by offering services such as:

• One on One Counselling
• Psychotherapy
• Group Therapy on Relapse Prevention, Anger Management, Communications, Self-Esteem, Codependency, Values, Grief and Loss, Stages of Change, Self-Love, Loneliness, and much more
• Music Therapy
• Art Therapy
• Fitness Therapy such as Yoga, Reiki, and Muay Thai
• Feelings Wheel
• Journalling
• And more

Social Wellness — Family and Friends

It's important to integrate family into each individual's addiction recovery. Family members sit with their loved ones and a counsellor to have open and honest conversations about Addiction, Recovery, Relapse Prevention, Support, Codependency, Healthy Boundaries, Communication, and Moving Forward in Recovery. Support System Services offered include:

• Community Outings
• Group Therapy
• Sober Living
• Family Therapy
• Programming focused on support systems, relapse prevention, situational triggers, codependency, and relationships
• Aftercare
• Family Support Day
• Constant communication between Counsellor and Family members
• Alumni Groups
• And more

Offering Aftercare

The Wellness program incorporates individuals' well-being even after completing onsite treatment. We offer an Aftercare program — Phase III is a 14-week outpatient program that helps prevent relapse and assists with the further development of problem-solving and coping skills required in day-to-day recovery. Individuals will work with our Addiction-Specialized counsellors to continuously support their mental, emotional, spiritual and physical well-being.

The Fitness Services Offered at New Life Addiction Rehab Islamabad

Personal Trainer

We have onsite fitness instructors and personal trainers. Each instructor brings expertise like kinesiology, technique, mental health, and Addiction Recovery. Each program is offered on a weekly basis in our treatment plan.

Reiki originates from Japanese Buddhist Usui Mikao. It is a healing and holistic technique provided to individuals to combat stress, anxiety and depression. With aspects of yoga, it offers a mental health practice based on breathing techniques and allowing the body to feel at peace.

"Do not worry and be filled with gratitude." — Usui Mikao

Yoga

Mental health issues can leave stressors on the body — tightness in the upper back, chest pains, sore legs, and headaches. Like Reiki, Yoga is offered as a practice to help individuals reduce stress, anxiety and depression in the body. With yoga mats provided, individuals can have an hour of mindfulness. Yoga incorporates posture, poses, and breathing techniques.

Gym

Located on-site, our beautiful gym incorporates body weights, free weights, adjustable bars, dumbbells, a cable machine, a lat pulldown, a chest press machine, a row of treadmills and TV/Radio for preferred workout music. In addition, there is an area for stretching with yoga mats.

Weekly Walks

Exercising with Addiction Rehab Islamabad means offering accessible means of movement. On a weekly basis, we take walks around the block, which allows individuals to get outside and socialize, increase mood, reduce stress, and be part of nature.

Wellness and Addiction Recovery

During active addiction, an individual's brain becomes impaired, loving relationships can be damaged, emotions avoided, and overall harm created on an individual's well-being. We use wellness to evoke conversations and programming that emphasize physical well-being through health-care and fitness, mental and emotional well-being through counselling and mindfulness methods, and social and spiritual well-being by allowing family, friends, and other support groups to be part of an individual's sobriety and addiction recovery journey.

Fitness and Addiction Recovery

Fitness is part of the Act of Living Healthy — it means taking care of yourself inside and out. Fitness at Addiction Rehab Islamabad works toward maintaining a body that functions in everyday life. Fitness allows individuals to have more energy, experience less pain, gain good nutrition, create balanced digestion, and can bring joy and happiness into their lives.