
Addiction Recovery Worksheets
Identifying Your Compartmentalization Patterns
Explore how compartmentalization can show up in addiction, recovery, and healing. Through guided reflection and creative exercises, you’ll identify the different parts of yourself that may get pushed aside, recognize patterns in your thoughts, emotions, and reactions, and discover tools that can help you feel more grounded and connected.
Setback Prevention Plan
Create a personalized plan for navigating triggers, urges, and high-risk situations before they lead to a setback. Through guided exercises, you’ll identify your personal warning signs, build a recovery toolkit, strengthen your support system, and create a plan for getting back on track if a setback happens.
Handling Addiction Triggers: Guide To Staying Strong
A quick check-in worksheet to help you slow down and take a closer look at your addiction triggers. Identify what happened, what you were feeling and thinking, and the people or situations involved so you can begin recognizing patterns and responding differently.
Urge Surfing
Learn a simple mindfulness-based technique for riding out urges, cravings, triggers, and intense emotions without immediately reacting to them. Using four simple steps- Notice, Name, Normalize, and Navigate- you’ll practice observing what’s happening, creating some space around it, and choosing tools to help you move through the moment.
The Three Circles Workbook: Defining Your Recovery, Boundaries, and What Supports Your Healing
Define what recovery and healing look like for you using the Three Circles. This guided workbook helps you identify your personal non-negotiables, recognize the grey areas that need more awareness or boundaries, and build an Outer Circle of habits, relationships, and supports that help you feel grounded and connected. Designed for both people in recovery and loved ones.
14 Tools for Tracking Triggers
Discover different ways to track your triggers and find the approach that works best for you. From journaling and mood tracking to voice memos, trigger mapping, creative expression, and support check-ins, this workbook gives you a variety of tools to help you recognize patterns and better understand what’s happening when you’re triggered.
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