Welcome to Recovery
You can recover from addiction, and we are here to help.
A list of important goals for your first year of recovery. Use it as a reminder and to help you stay on track in the days and months ahead.
• Accept that you have an addiction.
• Practice honesty in your life.
• Learn to avoid high-risk situations.
• Learn to ask for help.
• Practice calling friends before you have cravings.
• Become actively involved in self-help recovery groups.
• Go to discussion meetings and begin to share. You are not alone.
• Get a sponsor and do step work.
• Get rid of using friends.
• Make time for you and your recovery.
• Celebrate your small victories. Recovery is about progress not perfection.
• Practice saying no.
• Take better care of yourself.
• Develop healthy eating and sleeping habits.
• Learn how to relax and let go of stress.
• Discover how to have fun clean and sober.
• Make new recovery friends and bring them into your life.
• Re-evaluate your lifestyle periodically to make sure you remain on track.
• Deal with cravings by thinking about what will happen if you start?
• Find ways to distract yourself when you have cravings.
• Physical activity helps many aspects of recovery.
• Deal with post-acute withdrawal symptoms.
• Develop strategies for social environments where drinking is involved.
• Keep a gratitude list of your recovery, your life, and the people in it.
• Say goodbye to your addiction.
• Develop tolerance and compassion for others and for yourself.
• Begin to give back and help others once you have a solid recovery.
• See yourself as a non-user.
Do you or a loved one need help?
Recovery Stories and Resources
Continuum of Care Family Support
www.alcoholicsanonymous.ie
www.al-anon-ireland.org
www.na-ireland.org
www.mabs.ie
www.gamblersanonymous.ie