The Introduction Section below will help you begin to trust the system and feel comfortable with how it works. By providing some one. background information about yourself and by beginning to identify the issues of your addiction we can start to focus on your specific recovery. We have found that by writing out your thoughts, that patterns are revealed and addressed far more clearly. For you to get the most out of this process, please be as detailed as you can be. The best guideline to use is that if it comes to your mind and then write it down as it may well be useful. We would also like to take this opportunity to remind you that any information you share with us here is bound by our “Contract of Confidentiality” with you and will never be released outside of this process. We never share anything you share with anyone or anything or anybody. These Stages are to be completed in your own time, in the correct sequence, accurately and as honestly as possible. The more detail you add, the better the outcome.
You should be completing one part or stage each time you've read out the previous one. The purpose of the stages is to bring about specific changes in your thinking and therefore allow you to make small changes in your behaviour, which will bring about a successful change in your drinking or drug consumption problems. Our experience and evidence shows us that completing all of the parts, from all of the stages, within the structed program of Sober-Services maximizes your chances for permanent healthy change. This Workbook has proven to lead to your success if you take it seriously and complete all the tasks within your time. We've broken it down into 7 separate stages. The stages have been broken down further into 1, 2 or 3 parts, making it easier to work through and digest along the way.
This part is about permitting you to explain the situation as you see it. It's about allowing you to open up and reveal some truths about your historical addictive behaviours. There is therapeutic value in you writing it down and you may well begin to feel slightly better, but most important of all is we want you to become accustomed to writing and working on yourself and to trust the process.
Are you prepared to do whatever it takes to bring about a change in your relationship with your addiction/s?
Do you agree that nobody else can do this actual work for you and that it's your responsibility to work towards your own success, especially in the face of your challenges?
Have you had enough, or hit your "rock bottom", and is the pain of continuing to live in your addiction overwhelming enough for you to have a genuine desire to change permanently? If so, explain the pain you're experiencing and why it's motivating you to take action.
Are you ready to accept help?
Are you ready to change, at least for the time being?
Are you prepared to do whatever it takes to get well?
Do you believe you are "done" with your addiction?
Will you carry on living this old way or would you like to improve your life?
Write down your ideal solution. What results would you ideally like to achieve for your life from this program?
What would your life look like once you've recovered from this?
Are you able to believe that even you can conquer this challenge?
Describe in your own words, your current situation and how it's been affecting your life recently:
Have you been happy in life recently?
What do you have in your life to celebrate about? (e.g. family, work, friends, achievements, etc):
Describe the unmanageability and chaos in your life currently:
Are you able to believe that with help and determination this could change?
How do you know that it's now time to help yourself? What are the circumstances motivating you to heal?
How will you know whether you've conquered this battle completely? What would be the benchmark sign that you recognise as meaning you've been successful? Is there something you'd say to yourself or a feeling you'd get? Describe it so that someone else could feel it too.
On a scale of 1 - 10 (1 being dreadful, 10 being outstanding, how do you feel about the chances of you successfully beating your addiction?
What would need to happen to make your answers a 9 or 10?
In this part, we'll be helping you realise just how untenable life has become whilst you've been attempting to maintain your relationship with your active addiction. We'll begin introducing the understanding that you need to have around the topics of choice and control, or rather your lack of ability to choose not to, and the loss of ability to control yourself once you've started.
