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Recovery Tools

• Decision Matrix – This exercise will help you look at the costs and benefits of engaging in your addictive behavior of choice.
• Motivational Enhancement – This set of questions will help you increase your determination and commitment to abstinence.
• Recognizing and Resisting Urges - This tool offers various methods for helping you say “no” to your urges and mean it.
• Common Upsetting Beliefs – Most of the time when we feel upset, we are thinking one or more of these “nutty” ideas.
• Homework Assignments – Various techniques for changing at a deep behavioral and emotional level are explained here.
• Finding a Therapist – Suggestions are offered here for finding a therapist with a cognitive-behavioral orientation such as I use in my site.
• Suicidal Thinking – When life doesn’t seem worthwhile, please read these suggestions for many things you can do to foster hope and find help.
• Suggested Readings – Here is a list of books I recommend to my clients and where to get them.

For many more recovery tools, go to www.smartrecovery.org

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