Run tonight’s group in five minutes

Members learn to read anger as information, catch it before it escalates, and express it without damaging relationships or recovery.

Objectives: Members will identify their personal physical and behavioral warning signs of rising anger. · Members will name the need or value their anger is often protecting. · Members will practice one de-escalation skill in session.

Skills for getting through a crisis moment safely, without making it worse, when a problem can't be solved right away.

Objectives: Members will distinguish between problems to solve and moments to survive. · Members will practice one crisis-survival skill in session. · Members will build a short personalized list of go-to distress skills.

A skills group on understanding emotions as information and learning concrete ways to turn the intensity down without using.

Objectives: Members will name the function emotions serve and why they matter. · Members will identify their own early physical signs of a rising emotion. · Members will practice one skill for lowering emotional intensity in session.

A longer, gentle session on the many losses recovery surfaces, including the loss of the substance itself, and how to grieve without using.

Objectives: Members will name at least two losses they are grieving in recovery. · Members will recognize grief as a normal, nonlinear process. · Members will identify one healthy way they can move grief rather than numb it.

Members learn how anxiety works in the body and mind and practice skills to ride it out without reaching for a substance.

Objectives: Members will describe the body's anxiety response in plain terms. · Members will identify their own anxiety signals and typical anxious thoughts. · Members will practice one breathing or grounding skill in session.

Members learn to separate guilt, which can guide repair, from shame, which fuels using, and practice responding to each differently.

Objectives: Members will state the difference between guilt and shame in their own words. · Members will identify a recent experience of each. · Members will reframe one shame statement into a guilt-and-action statement.

Members take honest stock of their support system and make a plan to strengthen the connections that protect recovery.

Objectives: Members will map their current support network across several categories. · Members will identify a gap in their support and one way to fill it. · Members will name the difference between supportive and recovery-undermining relationships.

Members learn the difference between passive, aggressive, and assertive communication and practice setting a clear, respectful boundary.

Objectives: Members will distinguish passive, aggressive, and assertive styles. · Members will identify their own default communication pattern under stress. · Members will construct one assertive boundary statement in session.

A session on the damage addiction does to trust and the slow, action-based work of rebuilding it with the people who matter.

Objectives: Members will describe why trust is rebuilt through repeated action, not words alone. · Members will identify one relationship they hope to repair and one to let rest for now. · Members will draft one concrete, keepable commitment to a specific person.

Members learn to spot the common thinking traps that fuel painful feelings and relapse, and practice talking back to them.

Objectives: Members will name at least four common cognitive distortions. · Members will catch one of their own distorted thoughts in session. · Members will apply a balanced-thought technique to a real example.

A life-safety session on recognizing an overdose, responding, and the basics of naloxone, framed around following local protocols and calling emergency services.

Objectives: Members will recognize common signs of an opioid overdose. · Members will state the first and most important step in any suspected overdose. · Members will describe in general terms what naloxone does and does not do.

A working session on spotting personal triggers and building a concrete plan to respond to them before they turn into use.

Objectives: Members will identify at least three personal internal and external triggers. · Members will describe the difference between a lapse, a relapse, and a trigger in their own words. · Members will write at least two coping responses for a top trigger.

Members learn that cravings rise and fall like waves, and practice riding them out instead of fighting or feeding them.

Objectives: Members will describe the typical rise-and-fall shape of a craving. · Members will practice one urge-surfing exercise during the session. · Members will identify two things they can do to buy time when a craving peaks.

Practical help for the disrupted sleep and shapeless days of early recovery, and how structure protects sobriety.

Objectives: Members will understand why sleep is commonly disrupted in early recovery and that it improves with time. · Members will identify two sleep-hygiene changes they can make this week. · Members will connect daily structure to reduced relapse risk.

Members clarify the values that can give recovery direction and purpose beyond simply avoiding the substance.

Objectives: Members will identify three to five personal core values. · Members will distinguish values from goals. · Members will name one small action that moves them toward a chosen value.

Members build a realistic, whole-person self-care plan that treats basic care as relapse prevention, not luxury.

Objectives: Members will assess their current self-care across several life dimensions. · Members will reframe self-care as a recovery necessity rather than indulgence. · Members will identify two realistic self-care practices to add or protect.