DEVELOPING YOUR RECOVERY ATTITUDE (PART A) STAYING POSITIVE ee Having a positive and cooperative attitude will makean enormous difference in your recavery. A negative, defeated mindset can Urreree eer sabotage your progress in treatment and make recovery much more difficult Itcan also affect the people around you. Your mood ‘can encourage athers or drag them down. Thinking, believing, and acting the same will keep you the same, eller mice WRITING YOUR STORY Attitude is everything, Accomplishing yourrrecovery goals is hearly impossible with a negative, discouraged, or defeated attitude, Reflect on timesin the past where you had trouble managing your attitucle. How has this caused increased substance use problems for you? What consequences have you experienced because of a pact or uncoaperative attitude? Reflect on several thinasthat would improve your attitude or encourage positive attitude for you. What do you ned to dota stay strong positive. and confident? A fiercely honest inventory af your attitude toward treatment can help you undlerstand whhere you are today and where you want to go. You can adjust your attitude, change your direction, strenathen yourrecavery, and became the patson you desire to be. Changing your eutlook and mindzet are foundational to building your recovery. Allcontento 2078 Hal Baurncer, PsyOt LALADC | wew7journeyoracoverycom Page