From Ambivalence to Commitment
Promote Desire for Recovery
- Understand the nature of addiction.
- Understand addiction as a maladaptive attempt to manage life’s experiences.
- Itemize addiction’s self-defeating effects.
- Comprehend the devastation of addiction.
- Itemize personal devastation.
- Itemize relationship, marital and family devastation.
- Itemize spiritual devastation.
- Comprehend the dependency and powerlessness addiction brings.
- See how casual indulgence leads to an addictive lifestyle and dependency, then to entrapment in a vicious cycle.
- See how deterioration in your environment, emotions, thinking, learning/habits, and spirituality all contribute to powerlessness.
- Capture the vision of recovery.
- Identify and understand the blessings of sexual virtue.
- Establish a shared, relationship vision.
- Create vivid, compelling recovery imagery.
- Establish hope, faith, and courage.
- Believe that obedience to ‘lawful’ principles and practices results in recovery.