Recovery · 20–30 MIN · ADULTS / FACILITATED GROUPS

Who Am I Becoming?

Choose identity directions that reach beyond a treatment or substance-use label.

UNDERSTAND

What is happening here?

Recovery may connect with many valued roles and identities without requiring a person to replace one rigid label with another. A value can guide a small action before a larger role or outcome is available. Culture, family, and chosen community shape what feels meaningful.

Conceptual background

SAMHSA · About recovery. This reference supports the broad concept; it does not validate or endorse this original exercise.

PRACTICE WITH PURPOSE

How to use it

Choose up to three directions that fit the situation or use your own words.
Make one direction visible through a specific, manageable action.
Create a smaller version and name the support or accommodation it needs.

Choose directions

Explore · Adjust · Reflect

Your workspace

Use a fictional or manageable example. Responses stay in this tab and are not submitted or automatically saved. Export and print include what you enter. You may observe, adapt, or pass.

MAKE IT USEFUL

Notice. Discuss. Take one thing.

What can be named accurately without turning the event into an identity?What smaller action would still express the direction?One small next step, adaptation, or question to bring to a session

Choose another experience

For thoughtful facilitation

Open with the concept, demonstrate one fictional example, allow individual exploration or paired discussion, and close with one optional takeaway. Ask what fits the participant’s culture, language, access needs, and present capacity. Invite observation instead of disclosure; do not interpret participation as a measure of motivation.

Fit and care: Use manageable or fictional examples and adapt within competence. This is educational practice, not diagnosis, crisis care, or individualized treatment.

Original AI-assisted educational activity; independent clinical review pending. This is not an assessment, a complete treatment protocol, or emergency care. No automated risk scoring or outcome claims are made.