Building Recovery Resilience

The first workbook written for individuals progressing through the Recovery Resilience Program, a person-centered, strength and resiliency-based relapse prevention and recovery-oriented intervention designed for individuals in addiction recovery. The book presents practices derived from the I-System Model and the evidence-based intervention Mind-Body Bridging that enhance 'recovery resilience' – a term we use to refer to an individual's capacity to effectively apply coping and self-regulation skills in dealing with cravings, triggers, stress, and high-risk situations without reverting to substance use. Each chapter introduces various Recovery Resilience Practices and explains how they can positively augment any recovery pathway. Readers can learn to use these practices through various exercises, which they can complete before moving on to the next chapter. The program helps individuals to draw upon and use their recovery capital (for example, skills, tools, knowledge, etc.), remove barriers along the way, and strengthen their internal resources, and ultimately reach recovery and life goals.

Guy du Plessis is a researcher and instructor at the I-System Institute for Transdisciplinary Studies, Utah State University, and a faculty member at the Wayne Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy, Loyola University Chicago.

Derrik R. Tollefson is the Mind-Body Bridging Professor of Social Work and director of the I-System Institute at Utah State University. He holds a Ph.D. in Social Work from the University of Utah and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Utah.

Bob Weathers is an Addiction Educator and Certified Recovery Coach and holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. Over the course of his career, he has provided thousands of hours of therapeutic counseling to clients and has committed nearly 50 years to training graduate-level clinicians at several southern California universities.

Kevin Webb is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and an Assistant Professional Practice Professor and Associate Director of the I-System Institute for Transdisciplinary Studies at Utah State University.