This podcast episode is based on Journey to Recovery: A Comprehensive Guide to Recovery from Mental Health and Addiction Issues by Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes  Read it for free on Amazon Kindle Unlimited.
Journey to Recovery Series
Enhancing Motivation
Presented by: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes Executive Director, AllCEUs
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Objectives
~ Define motivation
~ Explore the various types of motivation
Definition
~ Motivation is a combination of desire, willingness and ability. It is your ability to keep your eye on the destination, and choose to do things that move you closer to that end point, instead of detouring you
~ Have you ever accomplished something you were not motivated to do?
~ What was it?
~ How did you get yourself motivated?
5 Principles of Motivation
~ Motivation is a key to change.
~ Motivation and people are multidimensional
~ Motivation is dynamic and fluctuating.
~ Motivation is influenced by social interactions.
~ Motivation can be modified.
Motivational Process
~ Motivation involves:
~ Recognizing that something needs to be done
~ Identifying the benefits to getting it done
~ Addressing the drawbacks to doing it
~ Creating a plan
~ Implementing that plan
Crisis Causes Change
~ Think about a goal you achieved, and complete the following exercise
~ What did you want to change?
~ Why did you want to change it (the crisis)
~ What was uncomfortable about the change (the other crisis)
~ Why was it worth the effort?
Types of Motivation
~ Mental Motivators: Wanting to get out of the fog, believing you can do it
~ Emotional Motivators: Depression, anxiety, panic, PTSD
~ Environmental Motivators: Reducing the tension, more money to improve my environment
~ Physical Motivators: Pain, illness, discomfort, fear of contracting a disease
~ Social Motivators: What friends and family want, what you need to do to be accepted, availability of friends, wanting to set a good example for kids
~ Occupational Motivators: Fear of losing a job, desire for a promotion, frustration at own poor work performance.
Dimensions of Motivation (MEEPS)
~ How is your “issue” impacting:
~ Your ability to think and concentrate? (Mental)
~ Your mood? (Emotional)
~ Your environment reflects how you feel inside. What is it telling you? (Environmental)
~ Your physical health (including sleep and nutrition)?
~ Your relationships? (social)
~ Your work (including your work product, desire to go to work and sick days)?
Activity
~ Part of getting motivated is to understand the benefits and drawbacks of the old behavior and the new behaviors.
~ Example:
~ I want to start eating better.
~ Benefits…
~ Drawbacks
~ Solutions to Drawbacks…
~ If I decide to NOT change my eating habits
~ Benefits…
~ Solutions/Alternative ways to meet the same needs…
~ Drawbacks…
Stages of Change
~ Precontemplation
~ Contemplation
~ Preparation
~ Action
~ Maintenance
Precontemplation
~ Reluctant precontemplators do not have sufficient knowledge or awareness about the problem, or the personal impact it is having, to think change is necessary.
~ How is your addiction and/or mental health issue impacting you and your family?
~ Rebellious precontemplators are afraid of losing control over their lives.
~ What things are making you feel forced into recovery or change?
~ How can you reframe those things, so you feel less angry/annoyed ?
~ What can you do to make the best of this situation?
~ Resigned precontemplators feel hope