Your high-risk situations are the ones that are most challenging for you in your recovery. Having a plan to approach these situations can be a valuable step toward your success.
- Be persistent in following your plan. You’re on a new track.
- Keep repeating your new coping strategies and new types of behaviour. They will gradually get easier and easier, until they eventually become good habits.
- Take small steps when you find yourself in a high-risk situation. Remember, it’s those small one-step-at-a-time successes that lead to big successes.
Choose two situations that you think are the biggest risks for your progress at this time. Then do the following for each situation:
- Describe each high-risk situation in your own words.
- List three ways you will cope with the situation—without using alcohol or other drugs.
- Write the name of someone who will support you if you need it.
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High-Risk Situation #1 |
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| Coping Strategy #1 |
Coping Strategy #2 |
Coping Strategy #3 |
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Support Person:
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High-Risk Situation #2 |
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| Coping Strategy #1 |
Coping Strategy #2 |
Coping Strategy #3 |
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Support Person:
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