Card Game
The Recovery Card Game (120 Cards)
What Do We Ask Each Other About Recovery That We Don't Know How to Ask?
Recovery is a conversation. This is where it starts.
People in recovery and their partners, family members, or close support persons who want a structured conversation tool for the things that need to be said about recovery — what it's like, what's hard, what each person needs — without requiring a clinical setting to have them.
The Name It First Experience
Recovery asks a lot of everyone in the room — the person in recovery and the people who love them. There's the formal work: the program, the steps, the meetings. And then there's the conversation layer that doesn't have a meeting for it: what recovery feels like on a Tuesday, what the person who loves someone in recovery is carrying, what hasn't been said, what everyone is afraid to ask. The Recovery Card Game gives you 120 questions designed to open those conversations — for someone in recovery and the people in their circle who want to understand better. Three decks, three levels of depth. Use it with a sponsor, a partner, a family member, or any trusted person in your recovery community. The conversation is the output.
You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.
Sample questions
- What does recovery actually feel like on a regular Tuesday — not the progress narrative, but what is true?
- What has the person who loves someone in recovery been carrying that has never been directly asked about?
- What question about recovery has never been asked in this relationship — the one everyone is afraid might change things?
Research basis
Grounded in Prochaska & DiClemente stages of change research / Miller & Rollnick (2002) motivational interviewing on open conversation as a driver of sustained recovery / Al-Anon and 12-step literature on communication between people in recovery and their support people.
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Every format asks the same questions and produces the same document.
Print Paperbackpersonalize
A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.
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eBook + journal
The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.
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Audiobook
We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.
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Hardcoverpersonalize
The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.
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Digital Fill + membership+membership
Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.
$12.99
Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership
Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.
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Choose your pace.
The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.
Essential path
Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.
Full depth
Every question. Every scenario, every angle.
Partner Pair
Built for two. You each work your own copy, on your own time — then you bring them together and compare, one answer at a time.
The comparison is the conversation.
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