Workbook content 1
This is one of the foundations of recovery. If people are unsure whether they want to change, it can be hard to maintain focus and motivation. You need this to help you stay focused and maintained. Pros and Cons analysis on your behaviour may be helpful if you feel ambivalent about making changes.
What is readiness to change?
This is one of the recovery foundations. It emphasises on connection with understanding family, peers in recovery, counsellors, and community support groups
What is supportive relationship?
This helps us reflect where we are at in our journey and clarify what our prioritised needs are.
What is stages of change?
If you find it difficult to maintain a new hobby or a new healthy lifestyle, you can join this in which a lot of people share the same interests, and you can have others to hold you accountable.
What is joining a club?
This is the basic assumption of the therapy modality we use in this program.
What is CBT triangle/thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are inter-connected?
This is one of the recovery essentials. Having a clear vision of the long-term benefits provides rationale for why we would bother tolerating the short-term discomfort.
What is seeing the big picture?
This is one of the successful recovery ingridients. It is about establishing healthy daily patterns, consistent sleep schedule, and meaningful activities.
What is setting routine and structure?
This is a single occurence of the addictive behaviour, not a full return to the problematic pattern of behaviour.
What is a lapse?
If you think you may not come back to the group after taking a break, you can do this intentionally so that you have to come back to the group and continue.
What is leaving your personal belongings in the room intentionally?
This is one of the components of self-compassion. It emphasises being attentive or sensitive to the fact that some sort of pain is occurring.
What is awareness of pain?
This is one of the sucessful recovery ingridients. It involves learning healthy stress management, emotional regulation, and mindfulness practices.
What is learning coping skills?
This is what we gonna talk about today. It is about preparing for high-risk situations, developing a thorough knowledge of your risk factors and success factors.
What is relapse prevention?
This is one of the components of self-compassion. It emphasises recognising that experiencing this sort of pain is universal, we all experience pain at some point to varying degrees.
What is normalising?
This is also a recovery essentials. It is only when you accept it is up to you, does progress towards change happen.
What is taking responsibility?
This is also a successful recovery ingridient. It emphasises on keeping going and showing yourself kindness despite setbacks and relapses; eventually you will reach your goal.
What is self-compassion?
This is one of the components of self-compassion. It emphasises not shying away or ignoring the pain, but meeting this pain with feelings of kindness, care, warmth and concern.
What is kindness?
This is part of self-compassion. It involves focusing our energy on ways to alleviate the pain, which may be via providing further comfort and caring actions, providing a helpful perspective regarding whatever the trouble is.
What is alleviation?