Life Beyond the Bottle

The Recovery Toolkit · free

Tools for the hard moments.

Twenty-four printable worksheets, one for each practical tool, from urge surfing to playing the tape through. Free to download, yours to keep. Pick the one you need today.

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Play the Tape Through

Play the Tape Through is a powerful mental exercise that helps you pause and visualize the consequences of acting on cravings.

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Values Rediscovered – The Compass of Your Recovery

Values Rediscover – The Compass of Your Recovery helps you reconnect with your core values, guiding your decisions and actions to support a fulfilling and purposeful recovery journey.

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Rehearsing Recovery – Role Playing

Rehearsing Recovery – Role Playing is a proactive tool that helps you practice handling high-risk situations in recovery, building confidence and refining coping strategies before facing real-life challenges.

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Riding the Waves – Urge Surfing in Recovery

Riding the Waves – Urge Surfing in Recovery helps you manage cravings through mindfulness by visualizing urges as ocean waves and learning to mentally “surf” them until they pass.

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Recognizing Addictive Patterns and Changing Behaviors

Recognizing Addictive Patterns and Changing Behaviors helps you identify triggers and addictive behaviors, and replace them with healthier actions that support your recovery.

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Trigger Response Planning

Trigger Response Planning helps you prepare for high-risk situations by identifying your most dangerous triggers and pre-planning how to respond.

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Unpacking Your Addicted Brain

Unpacking Your Addicted Brain helps you understand how addiction affects your brain and develop strategies to rewire it and create healthier behaviors.

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The ABCs of Coping with Urges and Cravings

The ABCs of Coping with Urges and Cravings is a cognitive-behavioral tool that helps you break down cravings, challenge destructive thoughts, and develop healthier responses to support your recovery.

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Soundtracking Your Addiction and Recovery Story

Soundtracking Your Addiction and Recovery Story helps you reflect on your journey by choosing one song that represents your time in addiction and another that symbolizes your recovery.

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Uncovering the Depths of Urges and Cravings

Uncovering the Depths of Urges and Cravings uses the Iceberg Model to help you explore the hidden causes behind your cravings.

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Create Your Distractions List

Create Your Distractions List is a proactive tool that helps you develop a personalized list of activities to turn to when cravings strike.

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Understanding What Drives Our Actions – The Actions Driver Map

Understanding What Drives Our Actions – The Actions Driver Map helps you map out the key thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and other drivers that influence your actions, providing clarity and insight into your behavior.

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Exercising Neuroplasticity – The Key to Change in Recovery

Exercising Neuroplasticity – The Key to Change in Recovery demonstrates your brain’s ability to create lasting change, helping you develop and reinforce new behaviors that support long-term recovery.

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Motivation: The Fuel for Recovery – Cost Benefit Analysis

Motivation: The Fuel for Recovery – Cost Benefit Analysis helps you explore external and internal motivations and weigh the costs and benefits of sobriety to reinforce your commitment to recovery.

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Debunking Recovery Myths

Debunking Recovery Myths helps you challenge common misconceptions about recovery by identifying myths and replacing them with empowering, accurate information to support your journey.

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Overcoming the Impossible

Overcoming the Impossible helps you confront the beliefs that make quitting drinking seem impossible and challenges those thoughts to build a more positive and empowered mindset.

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Why Get Sober?

Why Get Sober? helps you visualize your sober life, reflect on your motivations, and identify three action steps to move closer to the future you want in recovery.

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Stages of Change in Addiction Recovery

Stages of Change in Addiction Recovery outlines the phases of recovery, helping you identify where you are in your journey and what steps to take next for lasting sobriety.

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Create Your Addiction Timeline

Create Your Addiction Timeline helps you visually map out the key moments of your addiction journey, fostering self-reflection, understanding, and self-acceptance.

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Think Three Good Thoughts

Think Three Good Thoughts is a simple tool that helps you shift your focus from cravings to positive thoughts, reinforcing your commitment to recovery and keeping you in control.

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Detachment – Take a Step Back to Fight Urges and Cravings

Detachment – Take a Step Back to Fight Urges and Cravings helps you observe your cravings from a distance, creating mental space to make clear, rational decisions and stay in control of your recovery.

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Your Inner Ally – Creating a Recovery Avatar

Your Inner Ally – Creating a Recovery Avatar helps you create a supportive, imaginary persona who embodies the strength, resilience, and wisdom you need to navigate challenging moments in your recovery.

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Addiction Recovery Urge Log

Addiction Recovery Urge Log is a practical tool that helps you track and understand your cravings, identify patterns, and improve your strategies for managing urges during recovery.

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Identify and Rate Your Addiction Triggers

Identify and Rate Your Addiction Triggers is an exercise designed to help you recognize the people, places, and emotions that put your recovery at risk.

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