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Recovery Journal

A running day count kept on paper, so it survives a bad day instead of resetting with your memory of it.

Specification

Trim: 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
Pages: 120
Leaves: 60
Sheets: 30
Signatures: 6 × 20pp
Spine: 6.86 mm
Paper: white
Ruling: lined
Ruling pitch: 9.17 mm · 26.00 pt
Rows per page: 18

A count kept only in your head resets the moment you doubt it, and doubt is not rare on the days that matter most. Ask most people managing a recovery what day they are on and watch them recalculate from a date rather than answer straight off.

Each day page holds a running count and whatever you want to write against it: what was hard, what helped, who you talked to. A handful of reflection pages come later in the book, meant for a longer look back once there is enough behind you to look back on.

It is not a program and it is not a sponsor, and it makes no claim about what keeps a recovery going. It is a place to keep a count that does not depend on your memory of it being accurate on a bad day.

What is inside

Day count: 90pp; One page a day, a running count kept on paper instead of in your head, where it resets the moment you doubt it.
Notes: 13pp; Plain lined pages for whatever a day's page doesn't hold.
Reflection: 6pp; Shorter pages set apart from the daily count, for a longer look back.
Reference: 11pp; Conversions worked from definitions, plus emergency numbers checked against two sources.

The film