At The Freedom Room, we often say that recovery is 10% putting down the drink and 90% everything else. That’s not a measured statistic. It’s our way of saying that stopping drinking is the beginning, and that what we do afterwards is what makes the real difference.
This workbook is about a big part of that “everything else”: the way we think. For many of us, alcohol wasn’t just something we drank. It was something we relied on. We believed it gave us confidence, helped us relax, made us more sociable, relieved stress, quietened our minds, or helped us escape feelings we didn’t know how to deal with. When we stop drinking, those beliefs don’t suddenly disappear.
This workbook will help you question what you’ve always believed about alcohol and about yourself, notice the stories you tell yourself, and understand how your thoughts affect your feelings and what you do. It will help you go easier on yourself, see your worth beyond what you achieve, and get clear on the values you want to live by. None of this is about becoming perfect. It’s about noticing, understanding yourself, and learning to make different choices.
You can use The Sober Mind on its own, or alongside the other Freedom Room workbooks.
What’s inside
There are ten modules. Each one has some teaching, practical exercises, reflection questions to write in, and one small action to take:
- More than putting down the drink
- What I believed alcohol gave me
- How automatic patterns form
- Feelings are not facts
- The CBT Triangle
- Fact, feeling or assumption?
- Letting go of “should”
- Human being or human doing?
- Living by your values
- From old patterns to new choices
The modules build on each other, so it helps to go in order if you can. Write in it. A few honest lines are worth more than a perfect page you never start.
How you get it
After you order, you’ll receive an instant PDF download. It’s yours to keep, so you can save it, print it, and work through it at home at your own pace.
If you’d like to talk anything through, you can call The Freedom Room on (07) 3325 1531.
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