The Proven Tools for Alcohol and Drug Recovery
“The Seven Essentials for Recovery”
After completing each of the seven sessions each user will have all the fundamental tools and knowledge necessary for complete recovery. Moreover, he will have benefited by the one-to-one tailoring of these tools to his life-style and mindset through the personal touch of his monitoring therapist. Most users will not change on their own! They need one-to-one accountability, confrontation, and coaching from an experienced expert in a structured program to create authentic behavioral change.
What are the seven essentials that comprise the individual sessions of this program?
(Each session is downloaded by computer and completed at home. It is followed by a one-to-one implementation and coaching session with his therapist to facilitate implementation and integration into the users life.)
Session One: Confronting Denial
Recovery and change will not take place until the particular “denial form of choice” is identified, confronted and owned by the user. Denial is not a river in Egypt: it is a major barrier to behavior change! Various forms of rationalization and self-deceit are presented. The user is required to identify and come to grips with his particular form. (Often this form of thinking can be found in other areas of the users life as well: it can be an invaluable tool of self-discovery with vast life-improvement implications.)
Session Two: Coping Skills for Urges (How to Stop-thinking about Using)
Cognitive Skills presented include: The Stop-Thinking Technique, Challenging and Distraction, The Block Wall Technique, Thought Contamination, and several other tools to equip one to win the “battle for the mind”. All compulsive behavior starts in the mind.
Session Three: Coping Skills for Urges (Coping with Intense Feelings and Needs)
Tools to aid self-awareness and cope with the inner triggers to “self-medicate” discomfiting feelings. Such states include stress (vs. relaxation), loneliness (vs. self-love), and anger (vs. alternatives). Don’t “hope” trigger feelings will disappear: they won’t!
Session Four: Anger Management Tools (Understanding Subterranean Anger)
Three important, cutting-edge anger management tools from the latest researchers.
Session Five: Self-assertion Skills: Saying “No” With Assertiveness and Tact
Session Six: Strengthening Self-image and Countering Negative Self-talk
Session Seven: Relapse Prevention (Includes dealing with insidious “SUDS”)