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Looking to sharpen your MI skills or get a quick refresher on the basics? This free Motivational Interviewing Cheat Sheet from the MI Center for Change is a concise and practical tool covering core strategies like:

• OARS (Open Questions, Affirmations, Reflective Listening, Summaries)

• Change Talk vs. Sustain Talk

• The Spirit of MI

• Tips for building engagement and collaboration

Great for therapists, peer workers, or anyone wanting to improve how they support change.

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I came across this free resource online and thought it was too good not to pass along. This downloadable PDF is packed with creative, youth-friendly confidence-building exercises originally developed by the Polk Mentoring Alliance.

While it’s geared toward mentoring and school settings, many of the activities are easily adaptable for therapy groups, one-on-one sessions, or personal journaling—especially with adolescents and young adults.

You’ll find tools like:

• Prompts to boost self-worth

• Creative art and identity activities like “Self-Portrait” and “My Personal Shield”

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Sharing a great free resource: Brene Brown’s powerful list of emotions and feelings—a helpful tool for building emotional awareness and language in recovery and beyond.

87 Human Emotions & Experiences - Based on the research of Atlas of the Heart by Brené Brown

LINK - https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:49e3ad0b-9d2b-4f12-a17b-28330f98ed0d

If anyone happens to be at the New Jersey Prevention Network yearly Addiction Conference today or tomorrow, please stop and say hello if you see me!

Sharing a Relapse Prevention Workbook I found on the web, looks like its free from Hazelden

Link - https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:a8b0647c-d368-4fcc-9c1e-d246afce6a6d

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Have a good week

Ken

The recent glitches and loading issues were unexpected, but the good news is—they’ve been resolved. We've returned to the classic Taking the Escalator format, and you should now experience faster load times and smoother access to worksheets and other therapy materials.

Now that everything’s running more smoothly, we can get back to what we love most: creating new content.

Thanks again for your patience and support!

This 12-item measure provides a useful overview of how a client might typically respond to themselves during times of struggle. With questions such as “When I feel inadequate in some way, I try to remind myself that feelings of inadequacy are shared by most people.” and “When I’m going through a very hard time, I give myself the caring and tenderness I need.” the SCS-SF assesses various aspects of self compassion including one’s sense of a common humanity, mindfulness, and self-kindness.

LINK -

https://self-compassion.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ShortSCS.pdf

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