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We allow you to come up with your own path to recovery. With love and support, we share our stories of success and experiences. We do everything in our power to help you succeed in breaking the cycle of addiction, and know that with the right kind of help, everyone is capable of healing. We hope you find these resources helpful.
Individuals share their experiences of what it is like to have a loved one suffering from addiction.
Individuals tell how they overcame addiction.
In this section, you will find reading material and help-line access.
Resources
Life in Recovery
-Set and achieve new goals
-Reduce your risk of death
-Be healthier
-Give back to others
-Earn the trust of loved ones back
-You may look different - Enjoy the new you!!
-You'll have more money
-Cravings and urgers will come and go
-People will like you better
-You can experience life on life's terms with all of the emotional up's and downs.
Coping Skills
-Leave the situation / avoid high-risk situations
-Take a deep breath
-Chew gum
-Eat something
-Go for a walk
-Call a friend
-Exercise
-Meditate / pray
-Be patient and kind to yourself
Relapse Prevention
-Be organized/Set Goals/Slow down
-Get help for mental health issues anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, depression
-Address personal conflicts quickly
-Exercise
-Sleep
-Eat Right
-Relaxation exercises/music
-Healthy hobbies (write, read, sing, dance, bird watching, drawing, etc.)
-Warm bath
-Increase positive social supports
-Seek medical attention as needed
The 12 Steps
The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous
The Twelve Steps are a set of guiding principles in addiction
treatment that outline a course of action for tackling problems
including alcoholism, drug addiction and compulsion.
Step 1: We admitted we are powerless over alcohol—that our
lives had become unmanageable.
Step 2: Came to believe that a Power greater than
ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Step 3: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to
the care of God as we understood Him.
Step 4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of
ourselves.
Step 5: Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human
being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Step 6: Were entirely ready to have God remove all these
defects of character.
Step 7: Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
Step 8: Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became
willing to make amends to them all.
Step 9: Made direct amends to such people wherever possible,
except when to do so would injure them or others.
Step 10: Continued to take personal inventory and when we
were wrong promptly admitted it.
Step 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.
Step 12: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps,
we tried to carry this message to alcoholics/substance users, and to
practice these principles in all our affairs.
Videos
Videos
Stay In
The Urge Returns
I've got goals!
Contact Us
Are you or a loved one struggling with addiction? Email us a video or link to your stories of love and success. Please understand video donations will be added and edited at the discretion of the CALM editing team.
