NAME IT FIRST

Workbook

The Recovery Workbook

For the Person in Recovery — Not Their Partner

Sobriety gave you your life back. Who you are sober is the work no meeting fully covers.

This is for:

For the person in recovery who did the hardest thing — stopping — and now needs a structured place to document who they are becoming, not who they were in active addiction.

You'll produce:your Your Recovery Identity Charter

The Name It First Experience

Recovery programs give you structure for what happened. What they do not give you is a way to document who you are becoming. This workbook is for that project. You will name what recovery has changed, examine what you want now, and work through the identity questions sobriety surfaces. The output is not a sobriety chip. It is Your Recovery Identity Charter: the person you are becoming, signed.

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

  1. What does recovery mean to you — not in general, but in your own life right now?
  2. What parts of yourself have you had to set aside, and what parts have you been rebuilding?
  3. What does the life you want to return to — or build — actually look like?

Research basis

Felitti and Anda on ACEs research and addiction as adaptive response to trauma / Tedeschi and Calhoun on post-traumatic growth and identity reconstruction / White and Epston on narrative therapy and re-authoring the self outside the addiction narrative.

Choose your format.

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.

$22.99

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.

Paper doesn’t change its mind.

Thoughts change. Documents don’t. The answers you write are there when you return — unchanged by memory or mood.

You won’t just feel clearer — you’ll have written proof of what you decided.

Writing is the mechanism by which internal clarity becomes external evidence. Evidence you can return to, share, and hold someone — including yourself — accountable to.

Every question is answerable by everyone.

Every question in every title is answerable by the person for whom the assumed experience is true and by the person for whom it is not. No reader is excluded by how a question is built.

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