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Relapse Prevention: Do THIS Before the Craving Hits #addictionrecovery #familysupport

1 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Amber Hollingsworth breaks down three relapse-prevention steps: identify your triggers, create a distraction routine to shift gears when cravings hit, and build a list of people you can call immediately. Planning before the urge arrives makes resistance possible when your brain is demanding the substance.

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So these are things you can do beforehand, like relapse prevention kind of strategies. Like know what your triggers are so you can spot them. Have some ideas about what you could do to distract yourself instead. Like I have a lot of clients who literally, when I feel this way, I go do this and it shifts the gear for me. And they have a plan because it's really hard to think in the moment. It's extremely hard to think, especially when everything in your brain is screaming at you to make a certain decision that you're trying to resist making. So you need to have a way to shift that gear. Know what your triggers are first. Have a plan for what you're going to do instead. Have a list of people who you can talk to and tell this thing out loud to. And that is a pretty good relapse prevention strategy.