DIY Boundaries Addiction Relapse Prevention Plan

We humans see ourselves in multi-dimensional terms, yet when caught in a self-destructive pattern of behavior that includes the practice of a substance or process addiction others see us as one-dimensional. We are seen in terms such as: addict, alcoholic, bully, cheater, codependent, hoarder, rage-oholic, sex-oholic, shop-oholic, work-oholic, smoker, liar, thief, etc. We will remain one-dimensional as long as we believe our addiction defines who we are, rather than see our substance or process addiction as a component of a pattern of self-destructive behavior.
This DIY (Do It Yourself) Boundaries guidebook is designed as a go-to therapeutic procedural manual for development and deployment of an Addiction Relapse Prevention plan. The hope is that at the end of a 12-week plan period the constructor of the plan will again see themselves as a multi-dimensional being who is actively involved with family, friends, career and community.
The guidebook is made up of six interlocking sequential steps with tasks that walks you through a therapeutic procedure that informs, educates and guides its user toward discovering the truth about what is triggering their addiction. The guide then shows the user how to alter behaviors for ensuring addiction relapse prevention.
Step 1: Identify Feeling you follow a sequence of tasks to identify the self-protective and intense reactive feeling you experience most often when interacting with family, friends, co-workers or when out in the community. Then you develop a DIY Boundary plan to negate the power the intense reactive feeling holds over you.
Step 2: Behavior Pattern Episode you follow a sequence of tasks to identify the three sequential component parts of a Behavior Pattern Episode. A BPE is triggered by the intense feeling identified in Step 1 and comprised of; reactionary symptoms, attack behaviors and practice of an observable substance or process addiction.
Step 3: Cause Event you follow a sequence of tasks for looking back in your memory to locate and identify the original Cause Event encounter that is the underlying root cause for the self-generation of the intense reactive feeling identified in Step 1. The cause event has necessitated development of survival skills that include; hyper-vigilance, the reading and interpretation of interpersonal cues, and deployment of survival behaviors.
Step 4: The Effect you follow a sequence of tasks for identifying the Effect that the Cause Event identified in Step 3 has had on your life. The Effect happened over time and has resulted in your subconscious mind being in control of the reading and interpretation of interpersonal cues. Your subconscious mind is the problem because it is reading specific interpersonal cues as threatening and without separation as to friend vs. foe and fact vs. fiction.
Step 5: DIY Boundary you follow a sequence of tasks for developing and deploying a comprehensive yet east to use addiction relapse prevention plan. Being intentional, you develop a DIY Boundary that clearly affirms what to do to negate the power the intense reactive feeling identified in Step 1 and the BPE identified in Step 2 holds over you. With discipline you define how to do it activities that when put into practice achieves behavior alteration.
Step 6: Maintenance Plan you follow a sequence of tasks for maintaining substance or process addiction free living and preventing addiction relapse. A Maintenance Plan is a self-analysis program designed to identify complacency issues by monitoring your performance in relationship to your daily task work.
The guidebooks Step-Task methodology has a series of four interlocking worksheets with output information from one worksheet interconnected as input information to the next. Step-Task provides the framework for this DIY Boundaries therapeutic procedure and is important because it is; easy to learn, easy to document, and requires no outside help.