Understanding Recovery

This is a discussion about understanding recovery and what it entails beyond achieving the obvious end result. It explores how recovery helps regain innate qualities like honesty, enhances self-esteem and self-worth, and emphasizes the importance of living in the present to improve personal well-being.

Topics discussed in Understanding Recovery:

The broader definition and benefits of recovery, including regaining qualities like honesty. The relationship between self-esteem, self-worth, and recovery. Living in the moment as a key recovery practice to enhance personal well-being. Understanding the three lives we live—public, private, and secret—and addressing the burdens of the secret life in therapy. The problematic nature of “I should” thinking and how it impacts happiness. The worthlessness of worrying and how recovery can help mitigate it.

Who This Episode is For: Individuals in recovery, those interested in mental health improvement, and supporters of people in recovery seeking a deeper understanding of the process.

Related Content: 3A | The Truth About Recovery and Client Experiences | Maintaining Post-Treatment Progress with 3A | Addiction Recovery

About 3A, Intensive Treatment Program

3A was developed by Ann Foster, Derek Bylsma, and Oren Matteson. 3A offers extensive support and wrap-around care for individuals during critical transitional times of their recovery, including, but not limited to, the time between leaving inpatient care and transitioning into everyday life.

Personalized Attention: A dedicated therapist is responsible for creating and managing a specialized program of wrap-around care tailored to the individual’s needs using Millennium’s proven methods in addiction treatment. Counseling sessions for the client and their core group of family and friends to establish roles within the client’s recovery support network.

Continued Accountability: Daily individual counseling sessions. Inclusion in a recovery group that meets weekly. Accountability to a Millennium counselor seven days a week.

Radical Acceptance: Homework assignments and exercises to help clients accept addiction as a deadly disease and keep recovery first. Counseling sessions introduce how addiction has impacted everyone and the need for continued support for the whole family system.

Benefits include Continued momentum towards success in recovery, expert counselors with years of experience treating addiction, proven methods of developing personal support networks and new lifestyle routines, and comprehensive knowledge of the Chicago recovery community complementing an individualized recovery plan.  

Connect with us:

• Millennium Counseling Center: Website
• Derek Bylsma: Millennium | LinkedIn
• Oren Matteson: Millennium | LinkedIn

More about Millennium Counseling Center and our hosts:

The Millennium Counseling Center in Chicago specializes in mental health services with a strong focus on various forms of addiction, including their premier program, 3A, which is targeted towards alcohol addiction. They offer multiple counseling methods, including one-on-one, couples, and group counseling, alongside an intensive treatment program that includes personalized attention, accountability, and acceptance.

The center tackles issues like depression, PTSD, anxiety, childhood trauma, and various addictions (chemical, sex, eating disorders, etc.), addressing both individual and relational challenges. Their approach is comprehensive, aiming to aid recovery through multi-modal treatment plans tailored to individual needs, including leveraging their extensive knowledge of the local recovery community.

The podcast is hosted by Derek Bylsma, Executive Director and leader of the 3A and Sports divisions, and Oren Matteson, Vice President and Clinical Director. Derek, with a rich background in athletics and mental health, brings a unique perspective, particularly in sports psychology and recovery-related work. Oren focuses on adult addiction and trauma recovery, especially sexual and relationship addictions, promoting healing through empathy and compassion.

Their mission reflects a commitment to helping individuals break free from the cycles of self-hate, shame, and pain often associated with mental illnesses and addictions, restoring hope and promoting healthier, more fulfilling lives.

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