Most addicts have a hard time recognizing when their proverbial donkey is in the ditch. Until you begin to recognize where you are moving toward recovery or relapse you continue to struggle. Alot of the clients I work with have repeated the patterns of relapse maybe not with alcohol but maybe with anger or over eating, over spending, etc. Most of them look back after the fact and don’t understand how they got in the hole. They didn’t even see the hole coming. It used to take them days, weeks or months to even realize they were in the hole. All of that delays change and creates more havoc in the life of an addict. I found this tool as I began to use The Genesis Process in my coaching practice. The FASTER SCALE is one my clients favorites tools. They can take this out each day or when they are “little off” and quickly assess where they are on the path. When someone is off balanced this is the quickest way I know to assess where a client is and then in turn we can quickly asses what got them off balanced and make a plan of action to get them back on the beam. This simple tool can save you days, weeks, months of your life and most importantly can save you from the slipperly slope of a full blown relapse.
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Faster Scale – Life Skill 1 Instructions and Faster Relapse Awareness Scale doc file actual worksheet.
