What is a Nationally Certified Recovery Coach?

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A Nationally Certified Recovery Coach is a life coach, a person with coaching skills, who has had extensive training in the addiction recovery process and recovery support. A Recovery Coach will know the systems and methods that have been successful in the past to make the future for their clients brighter.

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How will a Recovery Coach work with me?

• A recovery coach will guide you through, a complicated process, to gain health, wellness, and better relationships. 
   

• A recovery coach will accelerate your progress in recovery, giving you the tools for greater focus and awareness in choices, actions, and responsibility
   

• A recovery coach will have the knowledge, education, and experience to get from the intervention stage through to the productive life stage and every step in between.
   

• A recovery coach will be concentrating on where you are now and what you are willing to do to enjoy a better tomorrow.
   

• A recovery coach will know how to walk you through hard-hitting cravings, reduce relapses by spotting the signs before a relapse occurs and accompany you to treatment and recovery-related activities.
   

• A recovery coach will have the skills and experience needed to help you navigate treatment.
   

• A recovery coach will be knowledgeable, motivated, and engaging, helping keep your spirits up.

What is the Role of a Recovery Coach?

• Recovery Coaches are trained professionals, with the tools and expertise to make transitioning from addiction to recovery possible.
   

• Recovery Coaches use a model similar to harm reduction and motivational therapy. This approach encourages positive actions designed to help you achieve a successful recovery.  
   

• To be clear a Recovery Coach is not a therapist, sponsor, or peer. 
   

FYI: a sober coach is different from a Recovery Coach. A sober coach works only as a back-up if a person needs support at the moment. A sponsor is performing a service to help with a 12-step program and the guideline that go with that program.

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How do I Choose a Recovery Coach?

Choosing a Recovery Coach Can be a Challenge.  You want a Coach that fits your specific needs.

7 Questions to Help Find the Right Professional Recovery Coach

Asking these questions when interviewing potential Coaches;

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1.    Why aren’t treatment providers enough?

2.    What do you consider recovery?

3.    What skills do you bring to the job?

4.    What experience do you have with a person in recovery?

5.    What experience do you have working with addicts in crisis?

6.    How would you handle a situation that didn't go as planned?

7.    How would you deal with a client breaking the rules?

THE FACT is that choosing the right Professional Recovery Coach is among the most vital decisions you’ll make on your journey to a clean, sober, and meaningful life.

FYI: a sobriety sponsor is different from a Professional Recovery Coach. A sobriety sponsor works only as a back up if a person needs support at the moment. A sponsor is performing a service to help with a 12-step program and the guideline that go with that program.

How One Man Held On to Hope to Overcome An Opioid Addiction

–Twin Cities PBS Originals

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David is out promoting his new book Addiction Rescue; the NO-BS Guide to Recovery in a Zoom event.

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Look for more future event listing here.

Avoiding certain people to protect your emotional health is not a weakness. It's wisdom. 
– Anonymous 

The best Recovery Coaches will cover these subjects and more;

• Confidence, Self-worth & Self Esteem.
   

• How to Make Loving Relationships That Work.
   

• How to Keep Your Serenity in a Crazy Life.
   

• Self-Care and How to Get Your Own Needs Met.
   

• Your Life's Purpose and How to Live It.
   

• Hot Triggers to Managing Anger, Resentment, Self-Pity, Intolerance, Patience, Worry, Fear, Frustration, and Stress.
   

• Your Best life after treatment in recovery.

Choosing an Addiction Recovery Coach Can be a Challenge.

There’s no “one size fits all” approach. You want a Recovery Coach that fits

your specific needs.

7 Questions to Find the Right Recovery Coach For You.

Below are seven questions you can use to help choose the right Recovery Coach for you. Asking them when interviewing potential recovery coaches can help you select the right one:

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1. Why aren’t treatment providers enough?

2. What do you consider recovery?

3. What skills do you bring to the job?

4. What experience do you have with a person in recovery?

5. What experience do you have working with addicts in crisis?

6. How would you handle a situation that didn't go as planned?

7. How would you deal with a client breaking the rules?

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The best Recovery Coaches will cover these subjects and more;

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• Confidence, Self-worth & Self Esteem.
   

• How to Make Loving Relationships That Work.
   

• How to Keep Your Serenity in a Crazy Life.
   

• Self-Care and How to Get Your Own Needs Met.
   

• Your Life's Purpose and How to Live It.
   

• Hot Triggers to Managing Anger, Resentment, Self-Pity, Intolerance, Patience, Worry, Fear, Frustration, and Stress.
   

•  Your Best life after treatment in recovery​.

Will a Recovery Coach change my Thinking?​

In a successful coaching experience, you will learn to help yourself remove the personal, social, and environmental barriers.

Recovery Coaches shift your thinking away from limited either-or choices finding other options and opportunities. Personal skills and traits to look for in a Recovery Coach;

• A coach who accepts your situation.
   

• A coach who is aware that there are several pathways to recover.
   

• A coach who allows you to choose your most appropriate path.
   

• A coach who will nudge you toward self-empowerment.
   

• A coach who helps you stay in the present and focus on the future.
   

• A coach who is highly actionable and solutions-oriented.
   

• A coach who is collaborative, not authoritative, or manipulative.
   

• A coach who helps you build responsibility and accountability for your recovery.
   

• A coach who helps you become your rescuer.

A professional Recovery Coach teaches you to question faulty thinking and patterns of relapse.

You need to do Your Homework to Find the Right professional recovery Coach.

He or she can make your recovery easier and boost your chances of extending it well beyond your first year.

Take Away: Hiring a Recovery Coach

These are just some of the essential qualities Recovery Coaches should have. A coach needs to view you as a whole person with viable options for recovery. 

Finding a coach that fits your needs and has the skills and qualities mentioned above is easier said than done. 

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David Marion is a Nationally Certified Recovery Coach (NCRC)

David Marion is a Nationally Certified Recovery Coach (NCRC)

David supports individuals who are recovering from or considering recovery from all types of addictions. He has a passion for his clients and gives them motivation and encouragement to produce continued positive results in their lives, careers, businesses, and/or organizations while moving through the process of recovering from addiction. He's focused on bringing out the full potential in his clients so they can lead successful, meaningful lives.

TURN YOUR LIFE AROUND

TESTIMONIALS

People with addictions think they don’t have options. But, they do.

Not all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path. – Anonymous 

David knows, first hand, addiction and the road to recovery.

David, the Life Recovery Coach, is an expert in both. He’s been on one side or the other of the addiction and recovery predicament for 50 years. As a Nationally Certified Intervention Professional and a Nationally Certified Recovery Coach he has answers. He has spoken his message to tens of thousands of people around the country in the rooms of recovery meetings, conventions, and schools. He has helped those in all walks of life and all ages, from kids in junior high school to old-timers in recovery meetings and he can help you too.

Here’s the fact: untreated addiction has only three possible outcomes: jails, institutions, or death. If you’re lucky, your bottom won’t be six feet under, but the alternatives suck too, David has lived through both. 

Through his troubled past riddled with opioid addiction, millions lost through compulsive gambling, and a federal prison sentence; David Marion has a riveting story that shows one can return from the depths of addiction to lead a life of prosperity by helping other people.

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David Marion knows the excuses.
He has used them all at one time or another.

• If it gets really bad, I’ll quit.

• Everyone else does it.

• You’d do it too if you had my life.

• I’m more exciting and outgoing when I do.

• I’m not hurting anyone. 

• No one can help me.

• I’m never going to amount to anything anyway.

• This is who I am, and I’m ok with it.

• No one understands me.

• I can stop whenever I want.

• I deserve this escape.

• It makes me better/happier.

• I’m not as bad as him/her, now they have a problem.

• It’s not causing consequences in my life.

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David Marion knows the consequences and when it’s time to quit. Do you?

Ask yourself these questions:​

1. Are others telling you it’s time to quit? 

2. Have you suffered a loss of a job or a relationship? 

3. Have you suffered financial distress?

4. Are you or others frustrated with your behavior? 

5. Have you stopped taking care of yourself physically, mentally, spiritually? 

6. Has life lost its luster? 

7. Can’t remember your life without using? 

8. Can’t imagine quitting, it’s gotten too hard? 

9. Think it’s too hard to turn your life around? 

There are different ways to overcome obstacles and their consequences when in recovery. Do not let shame and guilt hold you back. Recovery is the antidote that will restore respect for all involved. It’s never too late to recover.

David Marion turned his life around and so can you. 

Here’s How:

As a Certified Recovery Coach and Intervention Professional David Marion can help

1. Identify problem issues.

2. Stage an Intervention.

3. Recommend the appropriate treatment method for the individual.

4. Plan a vision for the future.

5. A proven 5 Step Path to Recovery.

6. Support and guide through positive change.

7. A transition from treatment back to life.

8. Build a community for support in recovery.

9. Action plan for goals in all areas of life.

Provide support and coaching for families of addicts.

David Marion the Life Recovery Coach, can help you.