11/02/2025
🕰️ Falling Back — and Taking Care 🍁
As we “fall back” and gain an extra hour this weekend, it’s a good reminder that time changes can affect more than just our clocks — they can impact our mood, sleep, and overall wellbeing.
Shorter days and longer nights can bring challenges for many of us, in particular navigating mental health and/or substance use recovery. The shift in daylight can disrupt routines, lower energy, and even intensify feelings of isolation.
This makes self-care especially important right now:
💡 Get outside during daylight hours — even a short walk can boost mood.
🛏️ Keep consistent sleep and meal times to support your body’s rhythm.
💬 Reach out — to friends, peers, treatment or a recovery community — connection is key.
☕ Be gentle with yourself; change, even small, can take adjustment.
Recovery and wellness is not about perfection — it is about awareness, compassion, and taking small steps toward balance. As the clocks turn back, let’s remember to give ourselves the grace to rest, reflect, and recharge.
Encore Outpatient Services offers evaluations, Intensive Outpatient and General Outpatient levels of care in addition to individual therapy, psychiatric evaluation/medication management, family/loved one support group (virtual), case management supports and alumni support group (virtual). Please do not hesitate to reach out to our Admissions Specialist, Javon Trice at (703) 436-8158 or jtrice@encorerecovery.com.
