Recovery Check list handout

Accept that you have an addiction.
Practice honesty in your life.
Learn to avoid high-risk situations.
Learn to ask for help.
The most difficult path of recovery is doing it alone.
Practice calling friends before you have cravings.
Become actively involved in self-help recovery groups.
Go to discussion meetings and begin to share. You are not alone.
Get a sponsor and do step work.
Get rid of using friends.
Make time for you and your recovery.
Celebrate your small victories.
Practice saying no.
Take better care of yourself.
Develop healthy eating and sleeping habits.
Learn how to relax and let go of stress.
Discover how to have fun clean and sober.
Make new recovery friends and bring them into your life.
Deal with cravings by “playing the tape forward”; consequences.
Find ways to distract yourself when you have cravings.
Physical activity helps many aspects of recovery.
Deal with post-acute withdrawal symptoms.
Develop strategies for social environments where people use.
Keep a gratitude list of your recovery, your life, and people.
Say goodbye to your addiction.
Develop tolerance and compassion for others and for yourself.
Begin to give back/help others once you have a solid recovery.
See yourself as a non-user.

About RichardB

I am trained and work as a Creative Arts Therapist specializing in group therapy. I have passionately studied, worked, and taught as a hands-on practitioner of the Creative/Expressive and Healing Arts since 1983 integrating various modalities working in a variety of clinical and non-clinical settings. I currently provide Creative Arts and Counseling services to nonprofit agencies as well as occasionally teaching classes and workshops in communities of faith. I use compassion and acceptance to create an environment that is safe and nurturing for all individuals and groups. In my spare time I engage in research and write articles on a variety of subjects, create: poems, music, abstract artwork, and photograph nature.

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