6 stages of change.
                                                  How to chart your progress to recovery          

              1. Pre-contemplation
              2. Contemplation
              3.  Preparation                                                                                                                   
              4.  Action
              5.  Maintainance
              6.  Relapse

                                                                                                  

                                                                                           HOW TO STOP

                                                                                          

                                                                   HOW TO EASILY CHART YOUR PROGRESS
                                                                                        THROUGH RECOVERY.

The following 6 stages will be your guide to charting exactly where your mind set is in your recovery process. Get to know these 6 stages and always be honest with yourself as you chart your movements through them toward your recovery. These will be the road map to chart your recovery progress. How quickly you will change depends on your motivation, family support, degree of experienced assistance involved, psychological factors such as treatment if needed, degree of your support system and whether or not you are making changes to your social enviroment. These 6 stages of change were outlined after extensive behavioral research by Prochaska and DiClemente back in the early 1990's and are used as the national model by therapists in helping their patients chart progress and setbacks in their recovery from alcohol and drug addiction. This chapter  will help you understand the reasons  to any setbacks you may encounter. The most important thing to know is that you must always look truthfully at yourself and keep aware of who you are associating yourself with. Also get to understand what all the stressors are in your life and become very familiar with your daily schedule. You will need to do a lot of planning and re-planning to keep productively busy and away from the wrong environments such as the people and places you frequent. These are key triggers to a slip or relapse. You can and will recover. Recovery really is not that difficult to achieve once you begin the process and do the neccesary steps required as you enter into your NEW JOURNEY.


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