Focus on Preventing Relapse

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Focus on Preventing Relapse

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Preventing Relapse

In our path to recovery, some members experience relapse as part of their journey.

This is a tough experience.

Some of us need to gain a deeper comprehension of the disease and the solution offered through our Twelve Step program.

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Before a Slip Becomes a Relapse

Every slip has a beginning. Know your danger signs:

• Have meetings become less important to you?
• Do you find yourself criticizing others who don’t work their programs like you do, if only in your head?
• Are you starting to think you are an OA authority?

Twelve Steps to a Slip

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Look Deeply Into What is Behind Your Slip

• Read the suggested material at the Been Slipping and Sliding? link below.
• Reflect and write on the idea or question posed.
• Use questions in daily writing, either with a sponsor or on your own.

Been Slipping and Sliding? A Reading and Writing Tool

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Your Action Plan for Reclaiming or Retaining Abstinence

• Part One: Inventory what happened.
• Part Two: Move from slip or relapse to recovery.
• Part Three: Create an action plan for commitment to recovery.

From Slip or Relapse to Recovery

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Suggested Recovery-from-Relapse Meeting Format

This format urges us to accept the ideas that:

• A meeting focused on recovery from relapse helps everyone, no matter where each member is on their road to recovery.
• A plan of eating and the Twelve Steps are foundations of success.
• Using the Tools of Recovery improves our chances.

Suggest Recovery-from-Relapse Meeting Format

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Recovery Roadmap Workshop

This workshop will help identify:

• Obstacles and diversions to our road to recovery.
• Ways to use the OA program to get back on track and help others on their journey.

Recovery Roadmap Workshop

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Meetings Between Meetings

• Phone calls help members return to meetings.
• You are calling for them and avoiding isolation yourself.
• Phone calls provide an immediate outlet for hard-to-handle highs and lows.

Call Five and Keep ‘Em Alive

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Keep Your Abstinence Strong

• These twenty-four valuable questions support you in keeping abstinence strong.
• These questions also support your sponsees in their recovery.
• Use these ideas as a focus for meetings and workshops.

Strong Abstinence Checklist and Writing Exercise

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It’s in the cards . . .

• You and your sponsor can do this project together.
• Write essentials of the program on index cards.
• Take a card out whenever you need to reaffirm your program.

The Simplicity Project

OA’s Responsibility Pledge

Always to extend the hand and heart of OA to all who
share my compulsion; for this I am responsible.

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How to find documents in OA’s Document Library:

After watching the first video, continue with the second video.

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