RI DISCOVERY PROVIDES:

 Hope through learning and practicing RI Discovery simple living skills, which encourage and Make a difference in improve personal growth. your life today!

 A safe place to express feelings Make a Difference in  User-friendly materials for quick Your Life Today! learning of time-tested self-help techniques.

 Problems with stress at work,  Highly interactive meetings for peer RECOVERY school or home? support and training of the self-help International techniques.

 Loss of focus or fear of failure  Support and acceptance, which may be hindering your ability to perform lacking at home, school or work. Stress your job or your career?  Trouble managing negative emotions and impulses? Fears About Recovery International  Lowered feelings or loss of sleep due to racing thoughts or other The mission of Recovery Tension concerns? International is to use the cognitive-behavioural, peer-to- peer, self-help training system Worry  Worrisome, angry or fearful developed by , thoughts causing disruptions in MD, to help individuals gain Lowered Feelings your days or nights? skills to lead more peaceful and productive lives.  Looking for that boost of self- Helplessness confidence to put you on a positive 105 W. Adams St., Ste. 2940 path? , IL 60603 USA Hopelessness Phone: (312) 337-566 RI Discovery can help! Toll Free: (866) 221-0302 Anger [email protected]

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What is RI Discovery? What Happens at RI Discovery Going to your First Meeting RI Discovery is a simple set of living skills, which Meetings? Here are just a few things to keep in mind when enable people to live more peaceful, productive lives. going to your first meeting. At RI Discovery meetings, participants describe an RI Discovery participants develop these self-help event from everyday life that caused distress. They skills in friendly, interactive, fast-paced, peer-to-peer  There is no required fee to attend RI Discovery explain how they used the program’s self-help meetings and through self-direction. meeting, but tax deductible donations may be made techniques to address their discomfort and control to Recovery International. their negative responses.  Review your RI Discovery participant workbook

and Daily Wisdoms. Who Should Use RI Discovery? Attendees then offer positive, constructive  Meetings are confidential, so you don’t have to encouragement, which highlight the example-giver’s RI Discovery is for anyone living with emotional give your name, but remember that many friendships successful use of the self-help techniques and suggest difficulty in life and looking for a safe place to begin at these meetings. other techniques that could have been used. quickly learn to change negative personal patterns of  Workbook can be purchased at first meeting. behaviour to positive ones. The skills you learn in RI Discovery can be applied to any irritation or RI Discovery meetings are confidential and the frustration in everyday life. information shared is kept within the group. Meetings Mondays The Self-Help Materials 4:00 – 5:30 Phone: 519-578-2100 to register. What are the Program’s Self- RI Discovery is complemented by user-friendly Help Tools? materials, which enable participants to quickly learn the self-help techniques. These materials are suited Connect on the Web The self-help tools are simple cognitive-behavioural for use in both meetings and personal self-direction. See the difference our self-help tools have made in techniques developed by neuropsychiatrist Abraham people’s lives by visiting our You Tube and Low, MD. These techniques have been successfully Facebook communities and following our team of used in Recovery International self-help meetings for RI Discovery Workbook bloggers. Make all the connections at more than seven decades and are now provided in a Provides the training and support for learning the www.recoveryinternational.org very easy-to-learn format in RI Discovery. self-help techniques and how to take part in an RI

Discovery meeting. Sample Self-Help Tools The Wisdom of Dr. Low – Words  If you can’t change a situation, you can change your attitude towards it. to Live By Compilation of quotations of works by  Every act of self-control leads to a sense neuropsychiatrist Abraham Low, MD. The book is of self-respect. used during RI Discovery meetings and is also a  Fear is a belief – beliefs can be changed. quick reference for a specific issue or concern.

 There is no right or wrong in the trivialities Get these and our other self-help materials at of everyday life. www.recoveryinternational.org RI Discovery  Feelings are not facts.