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About SMART Recovery (Self-Management And Recovery Training).
SMART Recovery is the world’s largest community of self-empowering, science-based addiction related support meetings. We started in 1994 as a small nonprofit, and have since grown to thousands of face-to-face meetings all over the U.S. and around the world. We also offer online meetings, including Zoom video conferencing, 24×7 chat rooms, online message boards, and much more. Best part is, it’s free of charge! Learn more about what SMART is (and isn’t) in this helpful video.
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TIPS & TOOLS National Recovery Month Edition
National Recovery Month is a national observance held every September to educate Americans that substance use treatment and mental health services can enable those with mental and substance use disorders to live healthy and rewarding lives. Now in its 31st year, Recovery Month celebrates the gains made by those living in recovery. And SMART Recovery is proud to be a part of that recovery.
Help us celebrate the occasion by supporting SMART Recovery in its long term missions to provide evidence-based tools in a mutual support setting that have helped hundred of thousands of people lead powerful lived free from addiction.
To learn more about SMART Recovery please check out: www.smartrecovery.org
To find a local online meeting in your area, please go to: https://www.smartrecoverytest.org/local/
To donate to SMART Recovery and help us serve the greater public during the Coronavirus outbreak, please go to: www.smartrecovery.org/donation
To starts a Facebook Fundraiser for SMART Recovery go to: https://www.facebook.com/help/990087377765844Show More
Help us celebrate the occasion by supporting SMART Recovery in its long term missions to provide evidence-based tools in a mutual support setting that have helped hundred of thousands of people lead powerful lived free from addiction.
To learn more about SMART Recovery please check out: www.smartrecovery.org
To find a local online meeting in your area, please go to: https://www.smartrecoverytest.org/local/
To donate to SMART Recovery and help us serve the greater public during the Coronavirus outbreak, please go to: www.smartrecovery.org/donation
To starts a Facebook Fundraiser for SMART Recovery go to: https://www.facebook.com/help/990087377765844Show More
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TIPS & TOOLS National Recovery [...]
National Recovery Month is a national observance held every September to educate Americans that substance use treatment and mental health services can enable those with mental and substance use disorders to live healthy and rewarding lives. Now in its 31st year, Recovery Month celebrates the gains made by those living in recovery. And SMART Recovery is proud to be a part of that recovery.
Help us celebrate the occasion by supporting SMART Recovery in its long term missions to provide evidence-based tools in a mutual support setting that have helped hundred of thousands of people lead powerful lived free from addiction.
To learn more about SMART Recovery please check out: www.smartrecovery.org
To find a local online meeting in your area, please go to: https://www.smartrecoverytest.org/local/
To donate to SMART Recovery and help us serve the greater public during the Coronavirus outbreak, please go to: www.smartrecovery.org/donation
To starts a Facebook Fundraiser for SMART Recovery go to: https://www.facebook.com/help/990087377765844Show More
Help us celebrate the occasion by supporting SMART Recovery in its long term missions to provide evidence-based tools in a mutual support setting that have helped hundred of thousands of people lead powerful lived free from addiction.
To learn more about SMART Recovery please check out: www.smartrecovery.org
To find a local online meeting in your area, please go to: https://www.smartrecoverytest.org/local/
To donate to SMART Recovery and help us serve the greater public during the Coronavirus outbreak, please go to: www.smartrecovery.org/donation
To starts a Facebook Fundraiser for SMART Recovery go to: https://www.facebook.com/help/990087377765844Show More
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Facilitator Spotlight - Alexander [...]
Alexander is a valued volunteer, online and face-to-face facilitator and SMART Recovery Ambassador in New Jersey who has applied SMART principles to overcome his past problematic behaviors. He now leverages that experience and helps those in his community who need help.
Want to make a difference in your community? Help those who are isolated and uncertain because of Covid-19? The best way is to volunteer for SMART Recovery, take our amazing training, and then start an online of face-to-face meeting in your own community!
How? Easy! Scholarships are available!
https://smartrecoverytraining.org/moodle/
To learn more about SMART Recovery please check out: www.smartrecovery.org
To find a local online meeting in your area, please go to: https://www.smartrecoverytest.org/local/
To donate to SMART Recovery and help us serve the greater public during the Coronavirus outbreak, please go to: www.smartrecovery.org/donateShow More
Want to make a difference in your community? Help those who are isolated and uncertain because of Covid-19? The best way is to volunteer for SMART Recovery, take our amazing training, and then start an online of face-to-face meeting in your own community!
How? Easy! Scholarships are available!
https://smartrecoverytraining.org/moodle/
To learn more about SMART Recovery please check out: www.smartrecovery.org
To find a local online meeting in your area, please go to: https://www.smartrecoverytest.org/local/
To donate to SMART Recovery and help us serve the greater public during the Coronavirus outbreak, please go to: www.smartrecovery.org/donateShow More
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SMART Recovery IN THE NEWS - August 2020
SMART Recovery IN THE NEWS is a summary of SMART's monthly media presence.
In this segment - excerpts from two televised news stories featuring SMART Recovery.
To learn more about SMART Recovery please check out: www.smartrecovery.org
To find a local online meeting in your area, please go to: https://www.smartrecoverytest.org/local/
To donate to SMART Recovery and help us serve the greater public during the Coronavirus outbreak, please go to: www.smartrecovery.org/donateShow More
In this segment - excerpts from two televised news stories featuring SMART Recovery.
To learn more about SMART Recovery please check out: www.smartrecovery.org
To find a local online meeting in your area, please go to: https://www.smartrecoverytest.org/local/
To donate to SMART Recovery and help us serve the greater public during the Coronavirus outbreak, please go to: www.smartrecovery.org/donateShow More
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Unconditional Life Acceptance - [...]
Unconditional Life Acceptance is a key part of the SMART Recovery toolkit, and a very powerful way to deal with whatever life throws at you. While we may not all have the ability to change our life circumstances immediately, we all have the power to change the negative ways we think about them, learn what we can and cannot reasonably control, and how to work towards acceptance.
Your own journey toward LIFE ACCEPTANCE may be long, difficult and often painful. It takes Practice, Patience, Persistence. It can sometimes seem impossible during the roughest of times.
But at SMART Recovery we feel that the journey is both well worth the effort, and attainable by anyone. Always remember that you DO have a choice on how you react to and/or feel about any given situation - however bad it might be.
If you think about life challenges in this light, UNCONDITIONAL LIFE ACCEPTANCE could eventually become a powerful tool to succeed at long term recovery.
To learn more about SMART Recovery please check out: www.smartrecovery.org
To find a local online meeting in your area, please go to: https://www.smartrecoverytest.org/local/
To donate to SMART Recovery and help us serve the greater public during the Coronavirus outbreak, please go to: www.smartrecovery.org/donateShow More
Your own journey toward LIFE ACCEPTANCE may be long, difficult and often painful. It takes Practice, Patience, Persistence. It can sometimes seem impossible during the roughest of times.
But at SMART Recovery we feel that the journey is both well worth the effort, and attainable by anyone. Always remember that you DO have a choice on how you react to and/or feel about any given situation - however bad it might be.
If you think about life challenges in this light, UNCONDITIONAL LIFE ACCEPTANCE could eventually become a powerful tool to succeed at long term recovery.
To learn more about SMART Recovery please check out: www.smartrecovery.org
To find a local online meeting in your area, please go to: https://www.smartrecoverytest.org/local/
To donate to SMART Recovery and help us serve the greater public during the Coronavirus outbreak, please go to: www.smartrecovery.org/donateShow More
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The DISARM Method - TIPS & TOOLS [...]
The DISARM Method is a great help in recovery and a classic drawn from the SMART Recovery Toolkit. It's short for "Destructive Image and Self-Talk Refusal Method."
Check out this new Tips & Tools Video to see how you can put its powerful principles to your new or continuing recovery today!
To learn more about SMART Recovery please check out: www.smartrecovery.org
To find a local online meeting in your area, please go to: https://www.smartrecoverytest.org/local/
To donate to SMART Recovery and help us serve the greater public during the Coronavirus outbreak, please go to: www.smartrecovery.org/donateShow More
Check out this new Tips & Tools Video to see how you can put its powerful principles to your new or continuing recovery today!
To learn more about SMART Recovery please check out: www.smartrecovery.org
To find a local online meeting in your area, please go to: https://www.smartrecoverytest.org/local/
To donate to SMART Recovery and help us serve the greater public during the Coronavirus outbreak, please go to: www.smartrecovery.org/donateShow More
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Tips & Tools
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The ABCs of Coping with Urges - TIPS & TOOLS for RECOVERY that WORKS! EP2
Check out SMART Recovery's ABC Tool for Coping with Urges. Derived from REBT (Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy) - this tool invites you to really evaluate what you believe about problems in your life and then test those beliefs to affect better reactions to them.
More at: www.smartrecovery.org
Questions/Concerns/Suggestions? Please email us at: tipsandtools@smartrecovery.orgShow More
More at: www.smartrecovery.org
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The ABCs of Coping with Urges - [...]
Check out SMART Recovery's ABC Tool for Coping with Urges. Derived from REBT (Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy) - this tool invites you to really evaluate what you believe about problems in your life and then test those beliefs to affect better reactions to them.
More at: www.smartrecovery.org
Questions/Concerns/Suggestions? Please email us at: tipsandtools@smartrecovery.orgShow More
More at: www.smartrecovery.org
Questions/Concerns/Suggestions? Please email us at: tipsandtools@smartrecovery.orgShow More
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Unconditional Self Acceptance (USA) [...]
UNCONDITIONAL SELF ACCEPTANCE or USA is an important exercise because as anyone in recovery knows, addiction to any substance or behavior generates a host of emotions, many of them quite negative, that can undermine your feelings of self-worth. When your self-worth takes a hit, remember one of the core values of SMART Recovery: YOU ARE NOT YOUR BEHAVIOR.
Questions/Concerns/Suggestions? Please email us at: tipsandtools@smartrecovery.org
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Questions/Concerns/Suggestions? Please email us at: tipsandtools@smartrecovery.org
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The DEADs Tool - TIPS & TOOLS for [...]
Have an urge? Next time you're jonesing for whatever you want to abstain from, simply employ the helpful SMART Recovery tool "DEADS". Find out more at www.smartrecovery.org.
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Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) - TIPS [...]
Check out how to use SMART Recovery's tool: The COST/BENEFIT ANALYSIS or C.B.A. It's a great way to take a good hard, honest look at what the real risk/reward profile of your behaviors really are, and then make sound decisions accordingly. More info at: www.smartrecovery.org
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The Hierarchy of Values Tool (HOV) [...]
Developed by SMART Recovery Founder Dr. Joe Gerstein, the Hierarchy of Values Exercise, or HOV tool can help anyone build and maintain their motivation to stay on track in their recovery. What do you value most in life? And is addiction on the list?
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2019 SMART Recovery National Conference
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Carlo DiClemente, Ph.D., Presents at the 2019 SMART Recovery Conference
Presentation Topic: Are Relapse and Recycling Necessary for Addictive Behavior Change?
Are relapse and recycling needed for recovery? Who better to answer this question than Carlo DiClemente, Ph.D., the co-creator of the Stages of Change model? In this highly informative presentation, Dr. DiClemente discusses relapse models, recycling and relapse, how they fit together, and the need to rethink the term “relapse.”
Click here to download a PDF of Dr. DiClemente's presentation slides: https://www.smartrecovery.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Carlo-DiClemente-FINAL.pdfShow More
Are relapse and recycling needed for recovery? Who better to answer this question than Carlo DiClemente, Ph.D., the co-creator of the Stages of Change model? In this highly informative presentation, Dr. DiClemente discusses relapse models, recycling and relapse, how they fit together, and the need to rethink the term “relapse.”
Click here to download a PDF of Dr. DiClemente's presentation slides: https://www.smartrecovery.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Carlo-DiClemente-FINAL.pdfShow More
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Carlo DiClemente, Ph.D., Presents [...]
Presentation Topic: Are Relapse and Recycling Necessary for Addictive Behavior Change?
Are relapse and recycling needed for recovery? Who better to answer this question than Carlo DiClemente, Ph.D., the co-creator of the Stages of Change model? In this highly informative presentation, Dr. DiClemente discusses relapse models, recycling and relapse, how they fit together, and the need to rethink the term “relapse.”
Click here to download a PDF of Dr. DiClemente's presentation slides: https://www.smartrecovery.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Carlo-DiClemente-FINAL.pdfShow More
Are relapse and recycling needed for recovery? Who better to answer this question than Carlo DiClemente, Ph.D., the co-creator of the Stages of Change model? In this highly informative presentation, Dr. DiClemente discusses relapse models, recycling and relapse, how they fit together, and the need to rethink the term “relapse.”
Click here to download a PDF of Dr. DiClemente's presentation slides: https://www.smartrecovery.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Carlo-DiClemente-FINAL.pdfShow More
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Leslie Waite, Psy.D. Presents at [...]
Presentation Topic: Motivation and Self-Efficacy in AA and SMART Recovery Participants in Recovery From Alcohol Use Disorder
How do motivation and self-efficacy differ between participants who attend Alcoholics Anonymous and SMART Recovery? What about individuals who use a combination of the two? Leslie Waite, Psy.D., introduced his research on these questions. His findings have helped him start discussions and establish SMART meetings in Veterans Affairs hospitals around the country.
To download a PDF of Dr. Waite's Presentation:
https://www.smartrecovery.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Les-Waite-FINAL.pdfShow More
How do motivation and self-efficacy differ between participants who attend Alcoholics Anonymous and SMART Recovery? What about individuals who use a combination of the two? Leslie Waite, Psy.D., introduced his research on these questions. His findings have helped him start discussions and establish SMART meetings in Veterans Affairs hospitals around the country.
To download a PDF of Dr. Waite's Presentation:
https://www.smartrecovery.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Les-Waite-FINAL.pdfShow More
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DeSean Duncan Presents at the 2019 [...]
Presentation Topic: SMART Comes Alive – A Personal Recovery Story
Three games into his college football career, DeSean Duncan dislocated his shoulder and was provided pain medication. This was the start of a long journey with addiction. DeSean now facilitates a SMART Recovery Face-To-Face meeting and is part of a recovery teen center that will soon start the first SMART Recovery Teen meeting in his state. DeSean shares his inspirational story, and we are proud to share it with you.Show More
Three games into his college football career, DeSean Duncan dislocated his shoulder and was provided pain medication. This was the start of a long journey with addiction. DeSean now facilitates a SMART Recovery Face-To-Face meeting and is part of a recovery teen center that will soon start the first SMART Recovery Teen meeting in his state. DeSean shares his inspirational story, and we are proud to share it with you.Show More
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SMART Recovery 2019 National [...]
Join us as SMART Recovery honors its volunteers and presents awards for the 2019 Joseph F. Gerstein Award for Exemplary Service to SMART Recovery and the inaugural SMART Research Award!
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Richard Saitz, M.D. Presents at the [...]
Presentation Topic: Words Matter: Addiction Terminology, Accuracy and Stigma
Words matter to Richard Saitz, M.D., who edits medical journals and publications for accuracy surrounding addiction terminology. In this talk, Dr. Saitz discusses substance use disorders as health conditions; how language promotes stigma and affects policy and care; and the emergence of accurate, non-stigmatizing terminology.
To download a PDF of Dr. Saitz's Presentation: https://www.smartrecovery.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Richard-Saitz-TERMINOLOGY-FINAL.pdfShow More
Words matter to Richard Saitz, M.D., who edits medical journals and publications for accuracy surrounding addiction terminology. In this talk, Dr. Saitz discusses substance use disorders as health conditions; how language promotes stigma and affects policy and care; and the emergence of accurate, non-stigmatizing terminology.
To download a PDF of Dr. Saitz's Presentation: https://www.smartrecovery.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Richard-Saitz-TERMINOLOGY-FINAL.pdfShow More
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Facilitator Spotlight
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Facilitator Spotlight - MANDY DE WOLF
Enjoy this engaging SMART Recovery spotlight of Mandy De Wolf, mother, wife and daughter of late drummer Keith Moon. She facilitates online and f2f meetings for SMART Recovery.
To learn more about SMART Recovery please check out: www.smartrecovery.org
To find a local online meeting in your area, please go to: https://www.smartrecoverytest.org/local/
To donate to SMART Recovery and help us serve the greater public during the Coronavirus outbreak, please go to: www.smartrecovery.org/donateShow More
To learn more about SMART Recovery please check out: www.smartrecovery.org
To find a local online meeting in your area, please go to: https://www.smartrecoverytest.org/local/
To donate to SMART Recovery and help us serve the greater public during the Coronavirus outbreak, please go to: www.smartrecovery.org/donateShow More
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Facilitator Spotlight - MANDY DE WOLF
Enjoy this engaging SMART Recovery spotlight of Mandy De Wolf, mother, wife and daughter of late drummer Keith Moon. She facilitates online and f2f meetings for SMART Recovery.
To learn more about SMART Recovery please check out: www.smartrecovery.org
To find a local online meeting in your area, please go to: https://www.smartrecoverytest.org/local/
To donate to SMART Recovery and help us serve the greater public during the Coronavirus outbreak, please go to: www.smartrecovery.org/donateShow More
To learn more about SMART Recovery please check out: www.smartrecovery.org
To find a local online meeting in your area, please go to: https://www.smartrecoverytest.org/local/
To donate to SMART Recovery and help us serve the greater public during the Coronavirus outbreak, please go to: www.smartrecovery.org/donateShow More
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Facilitator Spotlight - DENNIS ROSENFELD
Hear our Online Facilitator and SMART Recovery volunteer all-star DENNIS ROSENFELD tell us a little about what brought him to SMART and some useful information about SMART's wonderful online meeting community.Show More
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Facilitator Spotlight - DENNIS ROSENFELD
Hear our Online Facilitator and SMART Recovery volunteer all-star DENNIS ROSENFELD tell us a little about what brought him to SMART and some useful information about SMART's wonderful online meeting community.Show More
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SMART Recovery Meeting Facilitator [...]
In a short time, Dan Hostetler has established himself as a leading SMART Recovery ambassador.
As executive director of Above & Beyond Family Recovery Center, located in one of Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods, Dan and his group have demonstrated the effectiveness of choice in recovery programs.
After taking the SMART Recovery Facilitator Training, Dan introduced SMART Recovery meetings into Above & Beyond’s regular meeting schedule. Over 25 weekly meetings use a variety of evidence-based curriculums, such as REBT, Trauma, Brainspotting, Life Purpose (Viktor Frankl/ Logotherapy), Learning to Love Yourself, EFT, Music and Art Therapy (TraumART), Loneliness, Rage Reduction, and Procrastination.
After a few weeks of offering AA, SMART Recovery, Men or Women for Sobriety, WRAP, and Recovery Dharma (Replacing Refuge Recovery), Hostetler quickly realized that SMART meetings were becoming the overwhelming favorites. As a result, SMART Recovery’s footprint in Chicago has grown substantially, with Above & Beyond hosting more than 20% of the meetings. The average attendance of each meeting is 24 people. Above & Beyond Family Recovery Center also offers Family & Friends meetings Monday through Friday.
Dan’s success was noticed by Tom Horvath, co-founder of SMART Recovery:
“I am a treatment professional who visited Above & Beyond because I wanted to observe how they operate. I was extremely pleased to observe them in action. The facility is pleasing, the staff engaging, the services offer clients a choice of the 12-step or SMART Recovery approach, the staff is committed to ongoing professional development, the services are well suited to the population served and the clients are enthusiastic about the services they participate in. Above & Beyond has done an outstanding job!”
Hear from Dan about Above & Beyond, as well as his take on SMART Recovery, in this video.
For more information on Above & beyond, visit www.anb.today.Show More
As executive director of Above & Beyond Family Recovery Center, located in one of Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods, Dan and his group have demonstrated the effectiveness of choice in recovery programs.
After taking the SMART Recovery Facilitator Training, Dan introduced SMART Recovery meetings into Above & Beyond’s regular meeting schedule. Over 25 weekly meetings use a variety of evidence-based curriculums, such as REBT, Trauma, Brainspotting, Life Purpose (Viktor Frankl/ Logotherapy), Learning to Love Yourself, EFT, Music and Art Therapy (TraumART), Loneliness, Rage Reduction, and Procrastination.
After a few weeks of offering AA, SMART Recovery, Men or Women for Sobriety, WRAP, and Recovery Dharma (Replacing Refuge Recovery), Hostetler quickly realized that SMART meetings were becoming the overwhelming favorites. As a result, SMART Recovery’s footprint in Chicago has grown substantially, with Above & Beyond hosting more than 20% of the meetings. The average attendance of each meeting is 24 people. Above & Beyond Family Recovery Center also offers Family & Friends meetings Monday through Friday.
Dan’s success was noticed by Tom Horvath, co-founder of SMART Recovery:
“I am a treatment professional who visited Above & Beyond because I wanted to observe how they operate. I was extremely pleased to observe them in action. The facility is pleasing, the staff engaging, the services offer clients a choice of the 12-step or SMART Recovery approach, the staff is committed to ongoing professional development, the services are well suited to the population served and the clients are enthusiastic about the services they participate in. Above & Beyond has done an outstanding job!”
Hear from Dan about Above & Beyond, as well as his take on SMART Recovery, in this video.
For more information on Above & beyond, visit www.anb.today.Show More
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SMART Recovery Facilitator [...]
Heather Fisher, CADC, IS graciously sat down with us to explain how she found SMART Recovery and successfully integrated it into her work as an Interventions, Treatment Placement, Family Support and After Treatment Case Manager. The Friday night SMART Recovery meeting in Manhattan Beach, California that she facilitates is open for all and extremely rewarding to all its participants.Show More
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