Recovery Alphabet

A

Abstinence

Acceptance

Acknowledging and overcoming childhood trauma

Action

Affection

Air

Anonymity

Attitude

Awe

B

Balms for the soul

Baths

Beauty

Bible reading

Bible study

Boundaries

Breathing

C

Calmness

Carefulness

Cautiousness

Change

Cheerfulness

Commitment

Community

Confession

Confidence

Connection

Contentment

Cooperation with God

Courage

Craft

Creativity

D

Deliverance

Determination

Digital discipline

Discipline

Drinking water

E

Eating well

Enthusiasm

Environmental engineering

F

Faith

Fasting

Focus

Forgiveness

Freedom

Fulfillment

G

Generosity

Goal setting

Graciousness

Gratitude

Growth

Guidance

H

Habit

Healing

Health

Honesty

Hope

Humility

Humour

I

Inspiration

Involvement

J

Jolts of joy

Journalling

Journey

Joy

K

Kindness

L

Laughter

Learning

Light

Literature

Love

M

Meal planning

Music

N

Nature

News avoidance

Nutrition

O

Obedience

Obstacle identification

Obstacle overcoming

Optimism

Order

Organization

P

Patience

Pausing

Peace

Perseverance

Perspective

Pets

Planning

Plants

Pleasant words

Positive environment

Praise

Prayer

Promises

Purpose

Q

Quiet

Quotes

R

Reading

Reconnection to a hopeful and secure future

Reconnection to meaningful values

Reconnection to meaningful work

Reconnection to other people

Reconnection to the natural world

Regularity

Relaxation

Repentance

Resilience

Resolve

Respect

Rest

S

Scheduling

Self-care

Self-control

Self-denial

Self-discipline

Service

Simplicity

Sleep

Slogans

Slowing down

Smiling

Sobriety

Solitude

Stewardship

Strength

Stressor identification

Stressor strategies

Stretching

Sunlight

Support

Surrender

Sustenance

T

Talking

Temperance

Thinking

Time management

Today

Tools

Tracking

Trust in God

Truth

Truth therapy

U

Understanding

V

Values

Victory

Vision

Volunteering

W

Warmth

Water

Well

Wholeness

Work

Worship

Writing

X

Excuse avoidance

Exercise

Y

Yard work

Yes saying

Z

Zeal

Zest