Tools for Recovery: Starting at ‘Square One’ – Purposeful Employment to Aid Recovery
by Jodie Nealley,Intervention and Recovery Support Coordinator, and Scott Melissa, Human Resources Director,Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling The last three recovery themed blogs talked about relapse prevention, maintaining ones recovery and alternative ways to stay in recovery. Another essential tool of long lasting recovery is employment. Maslow’s hierarchy, seen below, lists employment right above basic physiological […]
TOOLS OF RECOVERY: Alternative Approaches to Recovery
by Jodie Nealley, Intervention and Recovery Support Coordinator, Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling and Amanda Poggenburg, Prevention Specialist “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.” Viktor Frankl (1946) Human beings are not all the same. This realization, […]
TOOLS OF RECOVERY: Recovery Maintenance
By Jodie Nealley, Intervention and Recovery Support Coordinator, Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling The major goal of recovery is maintaining it. Last week’s blog was about Relapse prevention but that is only a part of recovery. Developing ways of maintaining your recovery is crucial. One of the greatest threats to recovery is thinking you have […]
Tools of Recovery: Relapse Prevention
By Jodie Nealley, Intervention and Recovery Support Coordinator, Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling There are many tools someone in recovery from gambling can have in their recovery tool box. An understanding of relapse prevention, and the development of a relapse prevention plan is among these tools and is a good start toward maintaining recovery. Learning about […]
