From Relapse Deterioration to Recovery Growth
Promote Positive Personal and Relationship Response to Relapse
- Immediately reinstate recovery.
- Reach out for help immediately.
- Remove relapse opportunity and fortify environmental safeguards.
- Revitalize vision, renew resolve, and rally hope.
- Limit/contain negative spillover following relapse.
- Adopt growth perspective, attitude, and orientation.
- Carefully measure and monitor guilt and shame for repentance effect.
- Acknowledge both growth/progress and relapse.
- Study and learn from relapse.
- Be as happy as you can be.
- Build and sustain recovery on your foundation of good.
- Sustain positive, protective behaviors.
- Affirm and build recovery from your redeeming personal virtues.
- Renew your compelling vision of life in recovery.