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Lesson 23 of LII · the FEEL course
The idea behind this card — Lapse is not collapse
If there has been a lapse: the days before it still happened, and they still count. The speed of the reach back matters more than the length of the fall.
FEEL — The feelings coming back online
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The practice
decide now, calm, who the first call is if a bad day ever comes. Write the name and the rule: call before, call after, call anyway. A plan made calm is the one that answers.
Where this idea comes from
- Alan Marlatt and Judith Gordon — relapse prevention, abstinence violation effect
More in this deck
This room doesn't expire. Come back for whatever is coming up — tonight, the anniversary, years from now.
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