My recovery journey

This is guided recovery

❝ I’m not telling you it is going to be easy. I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it ❞ Anon

This approach to guided recovery is one of the best ways of helping to bring about recovery from an addiction with the support of family and friends. There are four core tasks and a toolkit to help you complete them.

You can work on the guided recovery plan yourself, with family and friends, or with the help of an addiction therapist.

Your toolkit for completing your recovery tasks…

  • Where am I now?

    Where do I want to be?

    How am I going to get there?

  • SMART stands for

    Specific 

    Measurable 

    Achievable 

    Relevant

    Time bound.

    There will be lots of times throughout this process to make SMART plans.

  • Aim

    • Be creative in finding possible solutions to a problem

    • Choose a realistic solution likely to be implemented

    To do

    Clearly define the problem (rather than ‘I don’t have enough money’, make it specific such as ‘I need to find £X a week to pay off my credit card bill’)

    Think of as many solutions to the problem as you can

    Look at the advantages & disadvantages of each solution

    Choose the solution that works best

    Plan and agree the steps to carry it out

    Put the plan into action

    Review the outcome (Was it successful? Did we achieve the goal? What did we learn?)

    Outcome

    • Have a selection of possible solutions to the problem

    • Agree a plan to implement the best solution

First, read about the recovery task and then create your own action plan which you will be able to save as a PDF. We hope you find this useful.

your four recovery tasks…