Recovery journal

Choose a prompt

• What am I really craving?

  Beneath the urge, what am I looking for? Comfort, escape, connection, silence, energy? Name it as precisely as you can.

• One thing I'm grateful for in recovery

  Small counts. Sleep. A meal. A phone call that felt honest. Write about one thing your recovery gave you today.

• The story I'm telling myself

  What story is playing in my head right now — about myself, about someone else, about what I need? Is it true? Is it useful?

• Talking to the version of me who used

  Write to the earlier version of yourself who was still in it. What do you want them to know?

• A letter to my future self, one year sober

  Describe the life you're building for them. Not perfect — real.

• What tripped me up today

  Not a moral failure — a data point. What preceded the urge, the slip, the hard thought?