People in Early Recovery

Early Recovery has its own character. Repatterned thoughts and behaviors are still new, bad consequences of past behaviors are still coming in the mail, and adjustment with loved ones is still rocky. After formal treatment has ended, then what? Group therapy gives newly recovering alcoholics/addicts a chance to work on their relationship skills, see themselves in someone else, and use their experience to benefit others. Group therapy gives people a chance to continue to look at themselves and work on problems that either led to addiction or result from addiction. And group therapy is affordable on a slim budget.