Webinar 12/29/12: Thirteen Tips to Make 2013 Your Best Year Ever, with Dr. Bill Knaus Live a “Want To” Life, Not a “Have To” Life Saturday, December 29, 2012, 7-8pm ET A key component to maintaining motivation and sustaining addiction recovery is covered by the SMART Recovery® 4-Point Program®’s 4th point: Living a Balanced Life. [...]
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December 11th, 2012
Thirteen Tips for a Great 2013
Posted in Lifestyle Balance 
Tags: addiction recovery, Bill Knaus, motivation, podcasts, relapse prevention, webinar 
Comments OffNovember 13th, 2012
Getting From “I Can’t” to “I CAN!”
The Importance of Beliefs in Addiction Recovery Dr. Philip Tate, author of Alcohol: How to Give It Up and Be Glad You Did “I can’t” may be the most debilitating belief you’re likely to have. Not the “I can’t” as in “I can’t jump to the moon,” but as in “I can’t succeed at doing [...]
Posted in Managing Thoughts, Motivation Tags: addiction recovery, motivation, Philip Tate, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, REBT Comments OffJune 5th, 2012
Veterans Treatment Courts
Providing Our Nation’s Heroes the Support They Have Earned R. Gil Kerlikowske, Director of National Drug Control Policy The Obama Administration is committed to the health and well-being of our armed forces, including support for the physical and mental health needs of service members and their families. This ongoing commitment is part of the Administration’s [...]
May 1st, 2012
A Mindful Approach to Addiction Recovery
Self-Management Begins with Intention -Charles A., SMART Recovery® Facilitator SMART Recovery is about actively managing your self and directing your actions. What do you intend to actively do today… or ‘NOW’… to manage your addiction recovery? We have the power of choice, but in order to realize this power, forming intentions and doing the work [...]
Posted in Lifestyle Balance, Managing Thoughts, Motivation Tags: addiction recovery, goals, mindfulness, motivation 1 Comment »January 17th, 2012
Can You Quit Smoking?
So, what’s your motivation to stop smoking? Sometimes it comes more from the outside than within – perhaps from a doctor, a partner, boyfriend, girlfriend, or parent. But without being personally motivated, your likelihood of successfully stopping smoking is low. So how can you get and stay motivated? We think that some of the techniques [...]
December 6th, 2011
Relapse Prevention and Coping
Join us for a free online presentation featuring Dr. Tom Horvath SMART Recovery® is pleased to announce that Dr. Tom Horvath, President of SMART Recovery will be speaking on: Relapse – Prevention and Coping, on Saturday, December 17 at 2:00 pm, (est) in the SMART Room online chat venue at SMART Recovery Online. Dr. Horvath’s [...]
Posted in Motivation, Support SMART Tags: addiction recovery, motivation, relapse, Tom Horvath Comments OffOctober 4th, 2011
New: For Healthcare Professionals in Recovery
Motivational Guide and Workbook for Recovering Healthcare Professionals by Maria Elsa Rodriguez, DNP, ACNS-BC New SMART Recovery® Motivational Guide and Workbook for Recovering Healthcare Professionals This Workbook was developed to address the paradox of healthcare professionals who are in recovery yet have a lack of resources available designed to meet their specific needs. The expectation [...]
September 27th, 2011
New Publication Available For Group Therapists
Addiction and Co-occurring Disorders from a SMART Recovery Perspective: A Manual for Group Therapists by Dawn Adamson, RN, CPMHN(c), CARN, and A.G. Ahmed, MD, FRCPC This new publication was developed in the forensic unit at Brockville Mental Health Centre, a division of the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group. “A significant percentage of individuals within the [...]
Posted in Coping With Urges, Lifestyle Balance, Managing Thoughts, Motivation, Support SMART Tags: addiction recovery, coping skills, lifestyle balance, motivation, REBT Comments OffJuly 5th, 2011
Tracking Your Progress With SMART Recovery®
The SMART Recovery® Activities Scale (SRAS) by Julie Myers, Psy.D. and Donald Meichenbaum, Ph.D. The SMART Recovery® Activities Scale (SRAS) is a new tool to help those engaged with SMART Recovery®. The SRAS was developed by Julie Myers, Psy.D.1 and Donald Meichenbaum, Ph.D.2 The SRAS is designed to be used by participants to assess how [...]
Posted in Motivation Tags: addiction recovery, Donald Meichenbaum, Julie Myers, motivation, recovery Comments OffMay 3rd, 2011
Crystallization Of Discontent
Motivation For Self-Change Pete Soderman, SMART Recovery® Facilitator Three-quarters of us who have abused or were dependent upon a substance or activity have either self-remitted or moderated to non-abusive levels, either completely on our own, or with minimal help. That we have done so without formal treatment or self-help programs has been well-established by the [...]
