Recreational Activities
At Sri Amman Trust, we want to promote the enjoyment of substance-free living. While recovery can be difficult and our treatment process requires a significant commitment, your time in treatment should remind you of the freedom you can experience without drugs or alcohol. Therapeutic recreation treatment helps you relearn how to enjoy activities and take care of yourself. We design recreation therapy to contribute to emotional, physical and mental healing and encourage lifestyle changes once your treatment is complete.
Recreation therapy is an activity-based strategy that uses enjoyable and engaging activities to promote your recovery and physical well-being.
For those actively misusing drugs or alcohol, recreation is often the furthest thing from your mind. We promote recreation during treatment to increase physical activity, social interaction, problem-solving skills and stress management abilities.
Benefits of Recreational Activities
Incorporating activities into your treatment promotes addiction-free health and enhances your physical, emotional, cognitive and social development. Plus, engaging in activities has several other benefits:
- Reconnects neuro-pathways impaired during active addiction
- Promotes a holistic recovery
- Supports development of healthy friendships and community involvement
- Helps clients achieve fitness goals
- Improves immunity
- Reinforces positive stress management
- Builds self-esteem and confidence
- Combats loneliness and depression
- Prevents boredom and reduces cravings
- Increases focus and feelings of control
- Encourages clients to find peace in recovery
- Develops positive routines that support patients long after their stay with us
