If you’ve battled addiction and are now in recovery, you want to stay on the road to good health. The highly addictive opioid, fentanyl, can be 100 times more potent than morphine, so if you’re in recovery from drugs as powerful as fentanyl. or heroin, you may now want to take time to get your bearings together at home. Here are some budget-friendly activities that you can take up during your home-based recovery.
Gardening
Do you have a green thumb or want to see if you have one? What better way to get in touch with nature than by starting a garden? With so many things in the public food supply, growing your food allows you to have peace that you’re eating food free of pesticides and other chemicals that might mess with your path to good health.
However, gardening isn’t just about putting some seeds in the ground and putting water on them. You must understand food biology, soil pH, property hydration amount, weeds, and so on. The average crop has to compete with over 30,000 species of weeds and 10,000 species of destructive insects. If you take up gardening, you’re bound to learn a lot about the food you eat and how to care for it properly.
Cooking
Speaking of food, why not take advantage of your kitchen and some of the food you might be growing in your garden by getting busy with new cooking recipes? If you’ve never cooked, now is a great time to learn as you spend more time at home. There are plenty of recipes of varying levels of simplicity and difficulty on YouTube and phone apps. You can even buy old-fashioned cookbooks like what your mom used to have.
You can practice specialized cooking such as vegan, vegetarian, or gluten-free meals. If regular cooking isn’t your thing, you can also practice baking yummy sweets. The smells of fresh blueberry muffins, banana bread, or apple pie are bound to make you feel better as you recover.
Yoga
Yoga is a practice that dates back thousands of years, all the way to India. As you make your recovery from addiction, you’ll need something that can help you relax and soothe your mind. According to Hopkins Medicine, yoga has proved to help with relaxation, better sleep, and improved heart health. When it comes to your body, yoga poses help you increase your flexibility and gain better balance and strength.
Reading
As you enjoy your time at home, get away from the TV and spend some time curling up with a good book. Many book genres are available including, science fiction, self-improvement, history, autobiographies, travel, horror, and more. You have plenty of authors and topics to consider. If you want some inspiration as you handle your recovery, consider a few famous books that dealt with addiction, including “Wishful Drinking” by the late Carrie Fisher, as well as “The Science of Addiction’ by Carlton K. Erickson.
Instrument Lessons
As you navigate your new life, you may experience social anxiety as you slowly reconnect with the world. According to the National Institute for Mental Health, such anxiety can creep into your daily activities, relationships, school, and work. Music has always been a great way to bring people together. So why not begin taking up some instrument lessons online? Then when you’re comfortable, you may want to start jamming with other amateur musicians. It would be a great way to make new friends and connect with the world again when you’re ready to leave home.
Any substance addiction can affect your health, so any steps you make in recovery are steps you’re making toward improving your health again. You can make the journey easier by finding the right home-based activities for you.