Recovery in Action: A 10-Week Self-Guided Workbook for Substance Use Recovery

Recovery is more than what you leave behind. It is also about what you build next.

Recovery in Action is a practical, self-guided 10-week workbook for people who want to better understand themselves, strengthen their recovery, and keep moving toward a healthier life.

Through straightforward teaching, guided reflection, and meaningful activities, you’ll explore triggers and cravings, thoughts and emotions, coping skills, relationships and boundaries, shame and self-compassion, identity, staying on track, purpose, connection, courage, and the life you want to build.

Inside you’ll find:

• 10 weeks of structured self-help work

• Guided reflections and practical activities

• Tools for understanding triggers, cravings, emotions, and patterns

• Coping and emotional-regulation strategies

• Relationship, communication, and boundary work

• Exercises exploring identity, confidence, purpose, and support

• Weekly action steps for putting what you learn into practice

• Personal reflections from a lived recovery perspective

• A Continuing the Work — Recovery & Growth Journal for after the 10-week program

This workbook was created by Shauna Fay McCarter, LCSW, combining professional experience with a lived recovery perspective.

104-page digital PDF • Instant Download • Self-Help Edition

The goal was never perfection.

The goal was learning to live better.

For individual self-help use. This workbook is educational in nature and is not a substitute for individualized medical care, mental health treatment, substance use treatment, diagnosis, or emergency services.

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