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8 Item Recovery Wellness Checklist – Avoid Relapse and Get Healthy and Happy

8 Item Recovery Wellness Checklist – Avoid Relapse and Get Healthy and Happy

Decrease your relapse odds and increase your happiness, resilience and health by focusing on balanced wellness. Here’s an 8 item wellness checklist with suggestions for small changes you can make today.

John Lee · 7/28/2014
How to Handle Negative Emotions without Drugs or Alcohol - Using Mindfulness and Mental Imagery to Cope with Uncomfortable Feelings

How to Handle Negative Emotions without Drugs or Alcohol - Using Mindfulness and Mental Imagery to Cope with Uncomfortable Feelings

Learn distress tolerance skills like mindfulness and imagery so you can handle uncomfortable feelings with out needing to get drunk or high.

John Lee · 9/25/2012
Making a Choice to Manage and Overcome Fears

Making a Choice to Manage and Overcome Fears

How a person chooses to deal with fear determines a great deal of what's possible in their lives. Make a choice to stop running from fear!

Jim LaPierre · 6/21/2013
Keep Yourself Feeling Great! Maintain Wellness and Prevent Worsening Psychiatric or Emotional Symptoms with This Easy Exercise

Keep Yourself Feeling Great! Maintain Wellness and Prevent Worsening Psychiatric or Emotional Symptoms with This Easy Exercise

Create wellness sheets and have a reminder of what you need to do every day, and once in a while, to keep yourself feeling good and to prevent worsening psychiatric or emotional symptoms.

John Lee · 9/17/2012
Emotions in Early Recovery: "You Can't Heal What You Can't Feel"

Emotions in Early Recovery: "You Can't Heal What You Can't Feel"

During early recovery we often find ourselves raw. But you can't heal what you can't feel. There are no quick fixes. Learn how to let it go.

Jim LaPierre ·
How Good Can Life Be, Clean & Sober?

How Good Can Life Be, Clean & Sober?

In early recovery, we're easily left with a sense of loss when we romanticize euphoric experiences we had with our drug of choice (and overlook the costs). Are you looking through the wrong end of the telescope?

Jim LaPierre ·