Recovery Tips and Help



Recovery Tips/Help

This page is to help you in your program of recovery.
The articles or suggestions have come from CoDA members and others.
Where noted, we will acknowledge the submissions.


12 Tools of CoDA
by V, a CoDA Member

1.  Attending Coda meetings
2.  Respecting and preserving anonymity and individual safety
3.  Listening to other, God and ourselves
4.  Sharing at meetings and on one-to-one
5.  Reading Coda and other literature
6.  Writing to expose what is in my heart
7.  Practicing the 12 Steps
8.  Honoring the 12 Traditions
9.  Having and being a sponsor
10. Being of service to Coda and others
11. Maintaining abstinence from my codependent behaviors
12. Praying and meditating to find and sustain my faith in God

Please notice that the tools are expressed with action verbs. This is to remind me that it is not enough to know what the tools are. For the tools be be effective, I must use them.