Relapse Prevention & Recovery Skills
Stress and boredom can both increase relapse vulnerability—one through overload and the other through under-stimulation, isolation, or lack of meaning.
Early recovery often changes schedules, relationships, and sources of excitement. Stress may create a desire to escape, while boredom may reactivate memories of substance-centered activity. A balanced plan includes regulation, structure, connection, rest, and healthy stimulation.
Distinguish overload, anxiety, fatigue, restlessness, loneliness, and lack of purpose.
Predictable sleep, meals, treatment, work, movement, and leisure reduce empty risk periods.
Walking, breathing, cleaning, creating, and talking change the state more than rumination.
Learning, hobbies, nature, fitness, music, and service can restore interest.
Rest is intentional recovery; avoidance leaves responsibilities and stress unchanged.
Regular contact makes it easier to ask for help when vulnerability rises.
Relapse prevention becomes stronger when insight is turned into a specific plan that can be used during stress, cravings, or uncertainty.
It can increase isolation, romanticizing past use, impulsivity, and a search for intense stimulation.
Rest is intentional and restorative; avoidance delays needed action and often increases stress later.
Enough to support stability while allowing reasonable flexibility, recreation, and recovery from fatigue.
Alpine Recovery Lodge helps adults recognize risks, strengthen coping skills, and create practical plans for continued recovery.
Alpine Recovery Lodge
1018 E Oakhill Dr
Alpine, UT 84004
