My Recovery Toolkit

Over this journey you've gathered a set of tools - things that help you regulate, interrupt urges, stay connected, and stay honest. This worksheet collects your best ones into a single toolkit you can return to whenever you need it. The point isn't to remember everything; it's to have your few most reliable tools written down and ready, especially for the moments when you can't think clearly.

Your tools, in one place: When you're struggling is exactly when it's hardest to remember what helps. A written toolkit means you don't have to remember - you just open it.

My in-the-moment tools

For a craving or hard moment - what actually works for you?

My go-to moves when an urge hits:

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My daily tools

The daily habits that keep me steady:

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My people

Who I reach out to, and how:

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My reminders

A few truths to come back to.

Things I want to remember (why I'm doing this, what's true when shame lies, what works):

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Keep it where you'll find it: Put this somewhere you can actually reach in a hard moment - your phone, your wallet, your mirror. A tool you can find is a tool that works. Update it as you learn what helps most.

Go deeper

Ready for more? These lessons pick up where this worksheet leaves off.

• Your New Path: Integration & Staying the Course, from Sex Addiction Recovery. The capstone of the recovery course: integrate every tool into a sustainable life, expect a non-linear path, and stay the course for the long haul.
• Relapse Prevention: Seeing the Warning Signs, from Sex Addiction Recovery. Relapse is a process, not an event.
• Connection Over Isolation, from Sex Addiction Recovery. Isolation fuels addiction; connection starves it.
• Replacing the Habit: Healthy Dopamine & New Routines, from Sex Addiction Recovery. You can't erase a habit — you replace the routine while keeping the cue and reward.