Review this recovery checklist to identify your strengths and weaknesses. Use it to set your own recovery goals.
- Maintaining appropriate daily routine
- Setting and achieving daily and long-term goals
- Personal care
- Setting and sticking to limits with children and others
- Constructive planning
- Appropriate decision-making and problem-solving efforts
- Choosing behaviors
- Well-rested
- Resentment-free
- Accepting (versus denying)
- Not controlling others nor feeling controlled by them
- Open to appropriate criticism and feedback
- Free of excessive criticism of self and others
- Gratitude versus self-pity and deprivation
- Responsible financial decisions (not over- or under-spending)
- Not escaping or avoiding through work or sex
- Self-responsibility (versus scapegoating and blaming)
- Valuing wants and needs
- Free of victim self-image
- Free of fear and anxiety
- Free of guilt and shame
- Free of worry and obsession
- Not feeling excessively responsible for others
- Faith in Higher Power
- Trusting and valuing self
- Making appropriate decisions about trusting others
- Maintaining recovery routine (attending support groups, et cetera)
- Mind clear and peaceful; logical thinking; free of confusion
- Feeling and dealing appropriately with feelings, including anger
- Appropriately disclosing
- Reasonable expectations of self and others
- Needing people versus NEEDING them
- Feeling secure with self; self-affirming
- Communicating clearly, directly, and honestly
- Balanced mood
- Maintaining contact with friends
- Feeling connected and close to people versus lonely and isolated
- Healthy perspective; life looks worth living
- Not using alcohol and medication to cope
- Having fun, relaxing during leisure activities, enjoying daily routine
- Giving appropriate positive feedback to self and others
- Getting - and allowing self to believe - positive feedback
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