The Recovery Files · Printable Guides
Wellness Guides
Four printable guides on the parts of recovery that happen outside meetings and sessions: sleep, food, how you attach to people and to substances, and a secular path through the Twelve Steps.
Body
Sleep and food, the basics that protect recovery.
Healthy Sleep Guide
The most powerful recovery tool available, and the most disrupted by addiction
Why sleep matters for brain repair, mood and willpower, how the stages of sleep work, common sleep problems in recovery, a bedtime and morning plan, and what the evidence says about common sleep supplements.
Inside: guide, sleep hygiene plan.
6 pages
Nutrition in Recovery
Hunger is the H in HALT
Meal timing (including before meetings and when cravings hit), why being hungry is a relapse risk rather than a moral failing, nutrients that support brain healing, simple food swaps, and foods worth knowing about.
Inside: guide, swap list, food list.
6 pages
Mind and meaning
How you connect, and a path that doesn't require a higher power.
Attachment Styles & Substance Relationships
How you bond with people is how you bond with substances
The four attachment styles and how each shows up both in relationships and in substance use, across eight areas and 26 topics, ending with your own attachment and recovery profile.
Inside: guide, personal profile, worksheets.
46 pages
The Agnostic Approach
Secular recovery · reason & connection
A secular path to recovery built on connection, reason and personal responsibility, for people who don't connect with the idea of a higher power: foundation topics, then twelve agnostic steps, each with a worksheet.
Inside: foundation readings, the 12 agnostic steps, 23 worksheets.
Adapts the Twelve Steps for secular recovery. Not produced or endorsed by Alcoholics Anonymous.
142 pages