8. Detachment

What Will You Learn?

• 1. Defining Detachment: In addiction recovery support, detachment entails maintaining emotional distance while offering compassion and assistance, emphasizing personal responsibility and autonomy for the individual in recovery.
• 2. Importance of Detachment: Detachment fosters independence and empowerment, prevents codependency and burnout, and promotes accountability and growth by empowering individuals to take ownership of their recovery journey.
• 3.Exploring Detachment: Through quotes and reflective exercises, individuals delve into the concept of detachment, acknowledging its role in supporting recovery while recognizing the need for self-care and setting boundaries.
• 4. Developing Detachment: Practices include identifying problems, letting go of blame and shame, focusing on solutions, and letting go of outcomes to cultivate the skill of detachment.
• 5. Things to Remember as a TRS: TRS must refrain from interfering with individuals' decisions, meet them where they are at in their journey, respect their autonomy, and continuously practice detachment while prioritizing self-care.
• 6. Exploration through Scaling Exercise: Individuals assess their ability to be detached on a scale and reflect on insights arising from their rating.
• 7. Reflection on Personal Detachment: Individuals consider the role of detachment in addiction recovery support, outline self-care practices to maintain detachment, identify signs indicating the need for detachment, and establish measures to remain detached.