Planning emotional well-being

Your emotional well-being is influenced by what you do with your time, where you live, and the relationships you have with friends and family. (These are all covered in later chapters in Part 4, Relationships. ) Planning for retirement gives you an opportunity to assess these issues and make whatever changes may be necessary. You can ease the trauma of retirement by attending to any concerns in advance so that there is minimal change when retirement becomes a reality. 

Cancer rising Moody, sensitive, and imaginative, you live at a high emotional pitch. You re attuned to other people and skilled at nurturing and protecting them, yet you may feel drained by their needs and resentful of their requests. You re shrewd and ambitious, but your carefully drawn plans may crumble in the face of your emotional reactions. When you feel besieged by the needs (or criticism) of others, you withdraw into the privacy of your shell. Home, food, family, and financial well-being are essential to your peace of mind. 

On the other hand, identifying problem areas allows for interventions to be devised to reduce or remove roadblocks to recovery. In a well-designed treatment plan, a problem area and its specific links with the drug use are identified and described. After the descriptive portion of the problem area, the treatment plan prescribes specific courses of action on the part of the client, with therapist or counselor support, to change the problem behavior. Problems areas may be biological, environmental, behavioral, cognitive, or emotional domains, or in some cases may represent complex combinations in more than one of these areas. 

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