First edition, 2026
Recovery for Real Life
An integrated group program for mental health and substance use recovery
Dr Eric Hadinata FAChAM
Recovery Well Medical Services Pty Ltd
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Two companion resources
Workbook and Integrated Facilitator Manual
The Workbook contains the participant material, with 1,234 fillable fields. The Integrated Facilitator Manual combines the facilitator guidance and participant workbook in one volume.
- Workbook
- 257 pages
- Integrated manual
- 333 pages
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Contents
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| Session | Workbook | Integrated manual |
|---|---|---|
| Weekend re-entry, learn from what happened | 7 | 10 |
| What does the pattern do? | 10 | 14 |
| Slow the sequence down | 13 | 18 |
| One loop, two parts of health | 16 | 22 |
| Find one workable interruption | 19 | 27 |
| Cues, learning and automatic pilot | 25 | 35 |
| What grabs and holds attention? | 27 | 38 |
| Anchor, widen, choose | 29 | 41 |
| Unhook attention long enough to choose | 31 | 44 |
| My cue and attention plan | 33 | 47 |
| When arousal changes thinking | 38 | 53 |
| Catch the earliest useful sign | 40 | 56 |
| Stabilisation skills laboratory | 42 | 59 |
| Match the response to the state | 44 | 62 |
| My first safe step under pressure | 46 | 65 |
| Emotions carry information, not instructions | 50 | 70 |
| Vulnerability is context, not failure | 52 | 73 |
| Make room without obeying the urge | 54 | 76 |
| Anger, urge, action and aftereffects | 56 | 79 |
| Choose a safer response route | 58 | 82 |
| Medication, harm reduction and recovery partnership | 63 | 88 |
| Sleep, routine and recovery foundations | 65 | 91 |
| Ask a useful continuity question | 67 | 94 |
| Protect one foundation this weekend | 69 | 97 |
| Weekend checkout and My Next Seven Days | 71 | 100 |
| Weekend re-entry: learn, do not judge | 77 | 109 |
| Flexibility is a repertoire | 79 | 112 |
| Values as directions, not tests | 83 | 117 |
| A choice under pressure | 86 | 121 |
| Small enough to do | 88 | 124 |
| When the struggle becomes the problem | 94 | 131 |
| Thoughts are events, not orders | 96 | 134 |
| Defusion under cue and craving | 98 | 137 |
| Making room without giving up safety | 101 | 140 |
| One safe willingness experiment | 104 | 143 |
| Same distress, different function | 110 | 150 |
| Match the response to the function | 112 | 153 |
| Select and retrieve a stabilisation move | 115 | 157 |
| Grief, loss and recovery: choose the distance | 118 | 160 |
| My matched-skill card | 120 | 163 |
| Private functional control check | 126 | 170 |
| Containment route: slow and steady | 129 | 174 |
| Openness route: loosen safely | 132 | 177 |
| Matched-route laboratory: contain, open or check | 135 | 181 |
| Flexible control plan | 138 | 185 |
| The response menu | 144 | 192 |
| Find the first pressure point | 147 | 196 |
| Rehearse the first two minutes | 149 | 199 |
| Make the plan retrievable | 152 | 203 |
| Weekend checkout and transition rehearsal: prepare for pressure | 155 | 207 |
| Weekend re-entry — facts, stories and unknowns | 163 | 217 |
| How minds fill the gaps | 166 | 221 |
| Three possible perspectives | 169 | 224 |
| Assumptions in mental-health and substance-use care | 172 | 227 |
| Hold it lightly, act deliberately | 175 | 231 |
| When stress switches off curiosity | 181 | 239 |
| Shame, identity and the observing self | 184 | 243 |
| Pause, orient and check | 187 | 247 |
| Where reflection was lost | 190 | 251 |
| My pause-and-check sequence | 193 | 255 |
| What am I trying to protect? | 199 | 262 |
| Make a clear request | 202 | 266 |
| Refuse without escalating | 205 | 269 |
| Boundaries, openness and safety | 208 | 272 |
| First sentence and fallback | 211 | 276 |
| A chain is a sequence, not a verdict | 217 | 283 |
| Stop, rewind and explore | 220 | 287 |
| Five safe response functions | 223 | 291 |
| Test the response on fictional cases | 226 | 295 |
| My safe next step | 229 | 299 |
| A setback is an event, not an identity | 235 | 306 |
| The next effective move | 238 | 310 |
| Useful accountability without shame | 241 | 314 |
| Connection and re-entry rehearsal | 244 | 318 |
| Weekend checkout and transition rehearsal | 247 | 322 |
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