This document discusses various aspects of recovery from addiction or other struggles. It provides tips for recovery such as realizing your self-worth, overcoming demons, avoiding triggers, getting support from others, and not giving up despite possible relapse. Recovery is described as being worth it because the person is worth it. The 12 steps of addiction recovery and traditions of groups like AA are also outlined. Overall the document offers encouragement and guidance for people seeking recovery.

1. Recovery
By Kimmer Collison-Ris
MSN, FNP-BC, WOCN, MS CAM

2. Recovery
• Realizing that you are worth it
• Experiencing true happiness
• Caring about yourself
• Over coming your own demons
• Validating your worth
• Eating without regret
• Relapse—its going to happen, its inevitable, it’s o.k.
• Yearning to live

3. YOU DESERVE RECOVERY
•You deserve to be healthy
•You deserve to be carefree
•You deserve to be at peace
•You deserve to be happy

5. https://www.recoveryanswers.org/media/hierarchy-of-needs-model-for-recovery/

6. Recovery means
being honest
about what I want.
What I need.
What I feel.
Who I am.

7. Overcoming your Struggles
•Decide to make a change
•the way you deal with stress
•who you allow in your life
•what you do in your free time
•how you think about yourself

9. Recovery is worth it
Because you are worth it.
Your life is invaluable
And you are
Precious!

10. 5 Key Steps to Recovery
• Lists the reasons you desire to change.
• Reflect on past attempts to recover.
• What worked?
• What didn’t?
• Set specific, measurable goals
• start date
• Set limits on your behaviors
• Eliminate reminders/triggers of habit/struggle from your
space
• home, workplace, and places you frequent
• Share with friends/family you’re committing to recovery &
ask for their support

11. http://www.apa.org/pi/mfp/psychology/recovery-to-practice/index.aspx

12. Recovery Tips
• Be kind to yourself
• Acknowledge achievements, big or small
• Remember that mistakes and failures happen
• Shift your outlook on life
• Avoid making comparisons
• Ask for help
• https://www.recoveryplace.com/treatment-programs/

13. Tips That Help Early Recovery
• Rest on your Faith/Higher Power
• Begin 12 Step process right away
• Get a Sponsor/mentor
• Find a support group
• Build a solid list of support back ups
• Grasp what investing in recovery & meeting your commitments
really means
• Be of service to others
• Make Phone Calls, Not Just Text
• Trust the Process
• http://www.hazeldenbettyford.org/articles/sober-dad/nine-tips-addiction-
recovery

15. Reach out for Support
• Lean on close friends and family
• Build a healthy social network
• Create a healthy living environment
• Go to counseling regularly
• Go to support groups regularly
• Ask for HELP!
• Don’t go it alone
• https://www.helpguide.org/articles/addictions/overcoming-drug-addiction.htm

17. Beginning to Change
• Keep track of your habit/struggle
• include when and how
• Understand the role this has in your life
• List the pros and cons of changing
• Assess the costs and benefits of continuing this habit cycle
• Identify what is important to you
• your partner, your kids, your pets, your career, or your health.
• How does your habit/struggle affect those things?
• Ask someone you trust about their opinion re:habit/struggle
• Ask yourself if what is preventing you from changing?
• What would help you make a change to break the habit/struggle?
• https://www.helpguide.org/articles/addictions/overcoming-drug-addiction.htm

18. Understanding Relapse
• Many “triggers” put people at risk of relapsing into old patterns of substance use.
Causes of relapse can differ for each person. Some common ones include:
• negative emotional states (such as anger, sadness, trauma or stress)
• physical discomfort (such as withdrawal symptoms or physical pain)
• positive emotional states (wanting to feel even better)
• testing personal control (“I can have just one drink”)
• strong temptations or urges (cravings to use)
• conflict with others (such as an argument with a spouse or partner)
• social pressures to use (situations where it seems as though everyone else is
drinking or using other drugs)
• good times with others (such as having fun with friends or family)
• Source: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

19. Fall
seven
times,
stand up
eight!

20. Avoiding Triggers
• Step away from friends or ex’s who are unhealthy
• Avoid bars, clubs, old haunts
• Talk it through
• Urge surf
• Challenge and change your thoughts
• Be honest about your history with your medical provider

21. PLAN FOR SUCCESS!

22. Healthy living Tips
• Avoid processed foods/artificial sweetners
• Drink lots of fresh filtered water
• Eat small regular meals/snacks
• Get regular Exercise
• Take nutritional supplements/medications
• Savor fresh air
• Play with animals
• Pamper yourself
• Create a relaxing living environment
• https://www.helpguide.org/articles/addictions/overcoming-drug-addiction.htm

24. First 90 days Tips
• Create (and keep to) a daily schedule
• Make meetings a priority
• Find a sponsor, trusted mentor or therapist
• Continue seeing your doctor or therapist
• Create a safe environment for yourself
• Ask for help from your loved ones
• Make a list of goals
• https://www.addiction.com/in-recovery/living-sober/first-90-days/

25. If I quit now,
I will soon be back to
where I started.
And where I started
I desperately wished
to be where
I am now!

26. First 90 days Tips…
• Pay attention to your diet, sleep and physical activity
• Learn your triggers and practice healthy coping skills
• Don’t rush back to work
• Limit social engagements
• Avoid major life changes
• Celebrate milestones
• Give thanks for each day
• https://www.addiction.com/in-recovery/living-sober/first-90-days/

28. YOU ARE GOING
TO WANT TO
GIVE UP
DON’T!

29. Addictions 12 steps
1.We admitted we were powerless over our addiction–that our lives had become unmanageable.
2.Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3.Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4.Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5.Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6.Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character
7.Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings
8.Made a list of persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9.Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them
or others.
10.Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11.Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we
understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12.Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to
alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

30. 12 traditions
1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon AA unity.
2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority–a loving God as He may express Himself in our group
conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
3. The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop your addiction.
4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or AA as a whole.
5. Each group has but one primary purpose–to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
6. An AA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the AA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest
problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
7. Every AA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
8. Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
9. AA, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those
they serve.
10.Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the AA name ought never be drawn into public
controversy.
11.Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal
anonymity at the level of press, radio and films.
12.Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.

31. Recovery from ANYTHING
is the most
BADASS
Thing a person
can do!

32. Tips to Improve Your Self-Esteem
• Not everything has to happen ASAP-keep it simple
• Plan to have a low mood for awhile
• Self-esteem comes from you, not from others opinions
• Take things as they come, in small steps
• What you feel does not mean you have failed
• Turn negatives into positives
• Focusing on negatives/put downs wastes your time
• Eliminate distortions & filtering
• Focus on hopeful and positive outcomes
• Reframe your self-talk into hopeful ones

33. Tips to Improve Your Self-Esteem…
• Forgive yourself
• Change your mindset
• Celebrate your accomplishments
• Surround yourself with positive people
• Strive for personal growth
• Learn how to take care of yourself
• Learn how to network with others
• Stay active and keep involved in healthy interests
• Extend yourself to others

36. The 3 “C’s” of Cognitive Therapy
•Catch
• Identify the thought that came before the emotion
•Check
• Reflect on how accurate and useful the thought is
•Change
• Change the thought to a more accurate or helpful one
when needed.

39. Grounding Technique
Reorient yourself in place & time
Ask yourself these questions:
1. Where am I?
2. What is today?
3. What is the date?
4. What is the month?
5. What is the year?
6. How old am I?
7. What is my name?

40. https://menofredemption.wordpress.com/2017/06/01/recovery-quote-for-the-day/

41. Citations
• https://www.recoveryplace.com/treatment-programs/
• https://www.addiction.com/in-recovery/living-sober/first-90-days/
• http://www.hazeldenbettyford.org/articles/sober-dad/nine-tips-
addiction-recovery
• https://www.helpguide.org/articles/addictions/overcoming-drug-
addiction.htm
• https://www.recoveryanswers.org/media/hierarchy-of-needs-model-
for-recovery/
• https://menofredemption.wordpress.com/2017/06/01/recovery-
quote-for-the-day/
• http://www.apa.org/pi/mfp/psychology/recovery-to-
practice/index.aspx

42. Citations