Coping Strategies
This strategy focuses on recognizing your feelings and processing them using healthy techniques to prevent emotional extremes.
What is: Emotional Regulation
This recovery group focuses on CBT, REBT and MET to create a 4-point program to help with addictive behaviours.
What is: SMART Recovery
This Freaky Friday and Halloween series star has been open about her sobriety, and just celebrated 27 years sober.
Who is: Jamie Lee Curtis
This song is about sobriety. It is sung by a singer whose name is a colour.
What is: Sober- P!nk
This strategy utilizes focusing on the present moment and being aware of the here and now.
What is: Mindfulness
This recovery group focuses on a 12 step program that uses tools to help you manage an addiction.
What is: AA, NA, CA, HA
Her boots were made for walking, walking away from alcohol that is. This celebrity decided to get sober in 2017 and has written the track "Give It All Away" to describe her journey.
Who is: Jessica Simpson
This british singer sang the lyrics "They try to make me go to rehab but I said no, no, no."
What is: Rehab- Amy Winehouse
This strategy can be used in many different ways but the goal at the end of the day is to be centered.
What is: Grounding
This recovery group is noted to be a nonreligious recovery group supporting individuals managing addictive behaviours without a spiritual grounding.
What is: Secular Organizations for Sobriety (SOS)
This legendary british Rocket Man recently celebrated 36 years sober.
Who is: Elton John
This ginger singer/songwriter's first billboard #1 was a song about a woman who had yet to turn to sobriety. The lyrics "White Lips, Pale Face, Breathing in Snowflakes, Burnt Lungs, Sour Taste" describe what the woman in the song goes through in her addiction.
What is: A-Team- Ed Sheeran
This startegy involves moving your body moderately-vigorously in order to maintain health physically
What is: Exercising
A nonprofit organization focusing on the particular needs of women living in recovery. This group utilizes 13 affirmations to promote self-worth and emotional growth.
What is: Women For Sobriety (WFS)
Best known for his part in the Iron Man series, this celebrity's whole career took a turn for the better after becoming sober.
Who is: Robert Downey Jr.
This metal song is an abstract way of describing the control addiction has over one's self. *Hint:* this song title shares the same name as the album it is on.
What is: Master of Puppets- Metallica
This tool is utilized with an addictions/mental health counsellor to create a plan to keep you sober.
What is: a Relapse-Prevention/ Recovery Plan
This recovery group encourages participants to bolster their 'sober-self' through positive reinforcement and mutual support. They also focus on practical strategies to avoid relapse.
What is: LifeRing Secular Recovery
This celebrity started in Firestarter, Charlie's Angels and 50 First Dates and had a past addiction starting in childhood to alcohol.
Who is: Drew Barrymore
This song is rapped by a famous Detroit rapper, who has chronicled his experience with substance abuse and growing up around substance use. This song describes his stand on putting an end to the cycle of substance use.
What is: Not Afraid- Eminem