A Resource for Providers and Clients.
You’ve reached the Outside-the-Box Recovery bookstore, where serious recovery work is balanced with creativity, art, cartoons, puzzles, and the occasional chuckle.
All publications are designed and illustrated by psychiatrist Dr. Kim (me!), a one-person team humbly trying to help the world get past mental illness and addiction.
FREE stuff is really FREE. For the rest, once purchased, the booklet is available immediately and via email. Make sure to save the PDF right away, as the links do expire. If you have problems, please contact me at kimrosenthalmd@gmail.com. Thanks!
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Suggested Books
Illustrated, humored, and clinically relevant, the workbook takes the reader on a 30-day introductory journey into the world of sobriety.
Price $20.00
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E-Booklets
This booklet is an entertaining but clinical set of worksheets to help people with substance use disorder get closer to the idea of quitting.
Price $2.99
This 20-page booklet is written for addiction counselors to use with clients who are contemplative about quitting. Motivational interviewing, CBT, and psychoeducation meet art & humor.
Price $2.99
Ranging from side effects and mortality rates to oddities and cultural mishaps, these T/F quizzes will keep you thinking. Perfect for providers to use with clients or teachers with students.
Price: $2.99
Need more treatment-oriented trivia and education for your clients, something serious but catchy? Here it is!
Price: $2.99
Artsy fartsy and friendly, this little booklet presents a series of easy exercises to help your client rewrite problem thoughts into healthier alternatives.
Price $2.99
Packed with reflections, activities, and a pinch of the unusual, this 29-page booklet will get your clients motivated, thinking, and attending meetings.
Price $2.99
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
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
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
Free Handouts
An interesting intro to CBT, this one-page puzzle offers a problem with lots of solutions. Coming soon!
FREE
NEW! This handout is a friendly start to help clients make sense out of a relapse.
FREE
Struggling with cravings? This plan is an unusual 4-page worksheet helping people in recovery maneuver through moments of cravings and stress.
Price: $0.00 (free)
Giving up drugs or alcohol creates an enormous hole in your client’s lives. This worksheet filles that hole with something worthwhile.
FREE
Recovery is more than just quitting.
Learn about the different recovery zones — and yourself — by taking this deeply serious (and humored) quiz.
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
Calm cravings and stress by focusing mindfully on physical sensations. Coloring is optional.
FREE
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.
Are the activities printable?
Yes, they’re printable. The e-booklets come in PDF format. Once you’ve downloaded a copy and saved it to your computer, you can print it as many times as you want.
This is such a refreshing way to go thru the trials & tribulations of addictions & its PICS. (parteners in crime). Looking forward to each of these e-booklets. Thank you Dr. Kim for making these e-booklets.