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This week's free resource is SAMHSA's Creating a Healthier Life: A Step-by-Step Guide to Wellness.

The guide explores the eight dimensions of wellness, including emotional, physical, social, financial, occupational, and spiritual well-being. What I like most is that it encourages people to think beyond symptoms and consider the bigger picture of recovery and wellness.

This could be useful for clinicians, peer specialists, case managers, and anyone interested in personal growth. Worth adding to your resource collection.

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The attached free PDF document provides guidance and exercises for practicing motivational interviewing techniques to facilitate behavior change.  

It provides practical exercises, scripts, and strategies for eliciting change talk, building rapport, exploring values, and supporting parents in making positive changes for themselves and their children.

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This free workbook from University of Arkansas Counseling and Psychological Services includes practical tools for understanding and managing anxiety and depression, including breathing exercises, self-care planning, CBT worksheets, grounding skills, thought-challenging tools, and more.

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This is a thoughtful worksheet and psychoeducational tool that explores how emotional triggers develop, how they affect reactions, and ways to respond more mindfully instead of reactively.

It includes reflection exercises, trigger identification worksheets, and a simple grounding framework (Stop • Breathe • Notice • Reflect • Respond).

This can be a useful discussion tool for groups focused on mental health, substance use, emotional regulation, trauma, stress management, and self-awareness.

Source: National Wellness Institute / Janet Fouts

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