Lesson 8: Managing Internal Causes Of Relapse - Slide 3
What Is Lifestyle Balance?
- Your lifestyle is balanced when the number of daily positive activities and events in your life are equal to or greater than the number of negative events
- By viewing our online lessons you can learn to:
- Reduce stress, solve problems, and increase pleasurable activities so you experience a positive balance between daily negatives and daily positives
- Manage the unpleasant and create the pleasant in every day of your life
- Viewers who are able to balance the daily negative stressors with pleasant and positive activities are much less likely to relapse
Notes:
Pg. 4,5, “Relapse Prevention Maintenance Strategies in the Treatment of Addictive Behaviours”, 2nd Edition, Edited by G. Alan Marlatt and Dennis M. Donovan, Guilford Press, New York, 2005