Managing Your Stuff
Self-Care as a Recovery Coach
As a recovery coach, it's important that you also keep yourself safe and healthy. That way, you can provide the most effective coaching possible while also maintaining your well-being. This topic page provides several resources so you can have various self-care strategies under your belt.
On this page, you'll find resources that discuss the key elements of managing your stuff. You can find the resources on this topic and a description of each item in the list below. You can click on the title of the resource to jump down to it on the page, or simply scroll down to see previews of each resource.
Available Resources
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Training Guides
- Ethical Boundaries for Recovery Coaches (6 pages)
- Staying in Your Lane (4 pages)
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Videos
- Self-Care for Recovery Coaches (~2 hours)
- Maintaining Wellness as a Recovery Coach (~1 hour)
- Caring for Self in Challenging Times (~1 hour)
- Discovering and Managing Your Stuff (~1 hour)
This CCAR guide is an example of a training provided to their recovery coaches. The training describes what ethical boundaries should be for a recovery coach, as well as how to apply them. Click here for an editable version of this document.
This CCAR guide is an example of a training provided to their recovery coaches. The training establishes what a recovery coach should do, as well as what they should not do. Click here for an editable version of this document.
Videos
In order to be an effective recovery coach, you have to be able to take care of yourself. This video gives you some key strategies.
Recovery coaching can be hard on the coaches, too. This video teaches you how to maintain your own wellness.
This video discusses several strategies to ensure that you're taking care of yourself, even in difficult times as a coach.
As the second leg of the recovery coaching stool, understanding how to manage your own stuff is a crucial part of coaching.