Free Booklets and Worksheets
You’ve reached the Outside-the-Box Recovery bookstore, where serious recovery work is balanced with creativity, art, cartoons, puzzles, and the occasional chuckle. Everything on this page is free. Simply download, save, and print!
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Cravings and Relapse
Struggling with cravings? This plan is an unusual 4-page worksheet helping people in recovery maneuver through moments of cravings and stress.
FREE
Got cravings? Facing life, and it isn’t pretty? The answer is simple. Pull out Sky Diving and Other Coping Skills, choose an option, and get moving.
FREE
If you’re dealing with cravings, this card belongs in your pocket. Got craving? Just follow the directions.
FREE
NEW! This handout is a friendly start to help clients make sense out of a relapse.
FREE
Promoting Recovery
Giving up drugs or alcohol creates an enormous hole in your client’s lives. This worksheet filles that hole with something worthwhile.
FREE
Calm cravings and stress by focusing mindfully on physical sensations. Coloring is optional.
FREE
A quirky quiz that introduces important concepts like denial, commitment to recovery, and coping skills.
Get clients laughing and thinking at the same time.
FREE
Recovery is more than just quitting.
Learn about the different recovery zones — and yourself — by taking this deeply serious (and humored) quiz.
FREE
Recovery Puzzles
The first task is easy: Which two cartoons are identical? Then check out our questions (and possible answers) and get clients talking.
FREE (NEW!)
An interesting intro to CBT, this one-page puzzle offers a problem with lots of solutions.
FREE
Recovery is hard work. This booklet presents handouts to lighten the load, all centered around recovery. They can serve as warm-ups for group therapy or a fun option for homework.
FREE
Depression Books & Booklets
This illustrated, 23-page booklet takes the reader on a 5-week journey to chip away at severe depression.
FREE
Dealing with Depression?
Aired on Facebook one time, this little e-book had over 700 hits in a single day! It’s worth checking out.
FREE
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Reviews
“Like a breath of fresh air, I really enjoyed and appreciated the out of the box approach, as it was quite inventive, memorable, and thought-provoking. I know people who would benefit from sobriety, and as a family physician working in an asylum, I am looking forward to using these worksheet resources in my practice. I recommend this resource for any medical provider and anyone who is seeking help from addiction or knows a loved one who may benefit having this book nearby.” — Lisa Lorelli, DO, Family Physician. Morganton, North Carolina
“I’m a peer support specialist and have worked on my own recovery over the past ten years…. From the jokes to the coloring material, this workbook has the answers to questions that people needing recovery want to ask but hardly ever ask. It has material I have never encountered in a workbook at the 20+ places I’ve been. I believe this book can be very beneficial to those in long-term treatment.” — Nathan Ray, Peer Support Specialist. Morganton, North Carolina
“I have used some of the worksheets from your blog with inpatient clients at the hospital who are in pre-contemplation/contemplation toward addressing their SUD. They have enjoyed the pages and I have found them useful for facilitating conversations to help increase their motivation. I like that your work engages the creative side of the brain and spans appropriate comprehension level of multiple groups.” — Julie Bowers-Pryor, MA, LCSW, LCADC, CSW. University of Kentucky, Kentucky.
