Assessment of Recovery Capital
- Is having a sense of purpose in life important to your recovery/transformational journey?
- Are you able to concentrate when you need to?
- Are you actively involved in leisure and sports activities?
- Are you coping with stressors in your life?
- Are you currently abstinent from all drugs, including alcohol?
- Are you free from worries about money?
- Are you actively engaged in efforts to improve yourself (training, education and/or self-awareness)?
- Are you happy when dealing with a range of professional people?
- Are you happy with your personal life?
- Do you feel like your making good progress on your recovery journey?
- Are you proud of your home/sober living home?
- Are you proud of the community you live in and feel a part of it?
- Are you satisfied with your level of involvement with your family?
- Do you cope well with every day tasks?
- Do you let other people down?
- Are you free of threat or harm when you are at home?
- Are you happy with your appearance?
- Do you engage in activities and events that support your recovery?
- Do you eat regularly and have a balanced diet?
- Do you engage in activities that you find enjoyable and fulfilling?
- Do you feel physically well enough to work?
- Do you feel safe and protected where you live?
- Do you feel your in control of your substance use?
- Do you feel that your free to shape your own destiny?
- Do you get lots of support from your friends?
- Do you get the emotional help and support you need from your family?
- Do you have a special person you can share your joys and sorrows with?
- Do you have access to opportunities for career development (job opportunities, volunteering or apprenticeships)?
- Do you have enough energy to complete the tasks you set for yourself?
- Do you have any fear about a reoccurrence of using drugs?
- Have you had any recent periods of substance intoxication?
- Do you have any problems getting around?
- Do you have the personal resources you need to make decisions about your future?
- Do you have the privacy you need?
- Do you look after your health and well being?
- Do you make sure that you do nothing to hurt or damage other people?
- Do you meet all your obligations promptly?
- Do you regard your life as challenging and fulfilling without the need for using drugs, including alcohol?
- Do you sleep well most nights?
- Do you take full responsibility for your actions?
- Is it important for you to be involved in activities that contribute to your community?
- In general are you satisfied with your life?
- Is it important for you to do what you can to help other people?
- Is it important that you make a contribution to society?
- Is your current living space helping to drive your recovery journey?
- Does you personal identity revolve around drug use and drinking?
- Are there more important things to you in life than using substances?
- Does what happens to you in the future mostly depend on you?
- Do you have a network of people you can rely on to support your recovery?
- When you think of the future do you feel optimistic?
Please answer these five recovery-crucial questions. Your answers will help us construct a recovery-enhancing life story.
1. Why and how did this happen? (Why me?)
2. What does it mean to have this challenge? (How has this problem changed me and my most important relationships and activities?)
3. How did I come to escape this challenge? (Why have I survived when others have not? Where does my recovery story begin?)
4. What actions do I need to take today to sustain my recovery?
5. How does this challenge affect the future direction of my life? (What is my personal destiny as a person in recovery?)
1. Why and how did this happen? (Why me?)
2. What does it mean to have this challenge? (How has this problem changed me and my most important relationships and activities?)
3. How did I come to escape this challenge? (Why have I survived when others have not? Where does my recovery story begin?)
4. What actions do I need to take today to sustain my recovery?
5. How does this challenge affect the future direction of my life? (What is my personal destiny as a person in recovery?)