From Repeated Cycles to
Breaking Free
Undermine the Addictive Cycle
- Identify and red-flag for recovery the entire relapse process, from
- gateway thoughts and feelings; to
- initial behavioral lapses; to
- preoccupation and transitional behaviors; to
- crisis and inevitability.
- Identify critical choice points as well as the onset of powerlessness.
- Protect recovery by avoiding gateway thoughts and feelings and initial behavioral lapses.
- Anchor recovery in protective behaviors.
- Make sense of repeated pendulum swings from recovery to relapse.
- Comprehend the unique vulnerability at each point of the pendulum’s swing.
- Capitalize on unique recovery motivation at each point.
- Address unique recovery needs at each point.
- Undermine addictive learning; rehabilitate learning for recovery.
- Identify personal triggers for addiction (learned associations).
- Then disconnect/disassociate triggers from addiction.
- Undermine unconscious/autopilot enactment of relapse rituals (learned sequences).
- Then develop and over-learn alternative responses to triggers.
- Rehabilitate exclusively sensual awareness of addiction (learned consequences).
- Commit to ready recall a complete awareness of addiction.
- Identify all critical choice points for recovery action.