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Building Your Recovery Routine
There may be new practices specifically to support recovery — taking up yoga or meditation, a sport or hobby, or making important changes in diet or exercise.
Topics: early recovery, maintaining sobriety, physical health, relaxation
Making Good Decisions
Topics: decision making, maintaining sobriety, Recovery Tools, tools for recovery
What to Look for in a Sponsor
Topics: 12Step, maintaining sobriety, Recovery Tools, tools for recovery
Crisis Management Cheat Sheet
This ‘cheat sheet’ is a quick reminder about some very basic principles of relating to a person who happens to be in crisis.
Topics: crisis management, detoxification, early recovery, emotional issues
Using Leverage in Counseling the Court-Referred Client, Part 9
Their fondness for risk and excitement makes them ill-suited to a ‘straight’ lifestyle they would no doubt describe as boring.
Topics: antisocial, compliance and noncompliance, counseling, court-mandated, leverage, Using Leverage Series
Seven Tips for Getting Started Right With AA
The more we exert ourselves to help those with problems like ours, the more concrete benefits we receive from AA.
Topics: 12Step, maintaining sobriety, recovery support groups, Recovery Tools, tools for recovery
Avoiding the Money Relapse Trap
Learning financial responsibility forces us to address and change behaviors and habits associated with our addictions.
Topics: maintaining sobriety, Recovery Tools, relapse, tools for recovery, triggers
Six Things You Can Do While Your Loved One’s in Treatment
Topics: co dependency, family involvement, maintaining sobriety, promoting recovery
Using Leverage in Counseling the Court-Referred Client, Part 8
Even the most recalcitrant drinker can appreciate the desirability of avoiding still more consequences. It’s a side door around some of the alcoholic’s denial.
Topics: counseling, court-mandated, DUI/DWI, leverage, negotiation, Using Leverage Series