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Worksheet Sheet Alcohol, drugs and recovery

Riding Out a Craving

Something to do with your hands while a craving peaks and starts to drop.

Purpose: Something to do with your hands while a craving peaks and starts to drop.

When to use: Use this in the middle of a craving, not after. Ten minutes at a time.

Worksheet prompts

  1. How strong is it right now?
  2. Where do you feel it in your body?
    Chest, stomach, hands, jaw, teeth, everywhere.
  3. Pick one thing and do it for the next ten minutes.
  4. Ten minutes later. What is different, even a little?
  5. What are you going to do with the next ten minutes?

Cravings rise and fall. You do not have to beat it, only outlast it.