Being in treatment for addiction recovery, one would think that a G2 - Treatment Self-Care should have been on the top of the list for Daily Lights activities. The reason it's not is because as I wrote about before, you really need to take care of yourself physically which is why Treatment Self-Care falls into the next category of Green Lights.
G2 Treatment Self-Care lights are activities that we do as an individual as part of our treatment. Each person will have some basic activities that will look the same but then it will be different due to the reasons that we have an addiction.
Of course self-care such as counseling is of the upmost importance. You can't get better from an addiction without knowing the why behind why you act out! And for myself (and just about everyone else that I've talked too in recovery) will have a counselor and most often he/she will assign homework. Homework can be from reading something, thinking and journaling, workbooks, creating inventories, asking for forgiveness from someone, offering forgiveness, etc. In fact, following a traditional 12 Step Program or Celebrate Recovery step is part of treatment self-care.
For others it can be taking medications as part of treatment for a variety of things such as anxiety or depression. For myself, I can count taking meds as one G2- Treatment Self-Care but there are others who must take them 3 or 4 times a day and in order to be compliant they can count that as 3 or 4 G2 Treatment Self-Care lights.
recoveryBox was built so that you can customize these lights. You don't have to add comments for any green lights but here is where for some it's vital to keep track of what a day looks like. When you select the button to add your comments you will see a few already suggested for you BUT please make this list work for you. Add what you need as part of your treatment self-care.
Later, you will see how you can add a Goal for Treatment Self-Care..make sure anytime you interact with a goal that you add a Green Light for that. Boost up your confidence by realizing all the wonderful progress you are making in your addiction recovery.
Wondering if recoveryBox is right for you? Download it today from the Apple store and give it a whirl.
Wondering what addictions this will work for? When you download recoveryBox you will first be prompted to choose one (or more) addictions from the list. There are over 50 to choose from..
~ Adrenaline-Producing Activities ~ Alcohol ~ Anger~ Being Right ~ Caffeine ~ Cocaine ~ CoDependency ~ Collecting "stuff" ~ Cumpulsive Behavior ~ Drug Abuse ~ Eating Disorder ~ Emotional Addiction ~ Escapism/Amusement ~ Exercise ~ Fantasizing ~ Gambling ~ Getting One's Own Way ~ Heroin ~ Hoarding ~ Idolization ~ Isolation ~ Laziness ~ Lust ~ Marijuana ~ Media (TV, Internet, etc) ~ Methadone ~ Opiates ~ OverWorking ~ People Pleasing ~ Perfectionism ~ Pornography ~ Prescription Drugs ~ Risky Behaviors ~ Sadism ~ Self Injurous ~ Self-Judgement ~ Sex Addiction ~ Shopping ~ Smoking ~ Sniffing ~ Social Media ~ Steroids ~ Substance Abuse ~ Theft ~ Tobacco ~ Travel ~ Trivia ~ Vandalism ~ Vicodin (pain killers) ~ Video Games ~ Voyeurism
