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Recovery Tools for Real Life.

Practical tools, honest encouragement, and a little room for laughter. These free resources from The Other Side of Rock Bottom are here to help you learn, reflect, and take your next step — one day at a time.

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Kathy Notes

Recovery Edition

The stuff Kathy wishes somebody had handed her at the beginning. This practical recovery toolbox brings together lived experience, faith, humor, and tools for the moments when life gets hard.

  • 12 practical recovery tools, including HALT and grounding.
  • Help choosing a tool for anxiety, anger, grief, shame, boundaries, or cravings.
  • Pause, Pray, Process, Proceed — with reminders to practice, reach out, and keep going.
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33 pages · PDF · No signup required

Written in Kathy’s candid voice. Contains adult language.

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It’s Me, I’m the Problem

A Workbook on Rediscovering Yourself

Honest self-reflection with room for grace. Kathy Simmons explores survival patterns, avoidance, boundaries, self-talk, and identity, bringing faith and practical reflection into the work of change.

  • Recognize patterns and practice accountability without shame.
  • Explore how survival habits shape your choices and relationships.
  • Build self-trust, set boundaries, and take your next step with grace.
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98 pages · PDF · No signup required

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The Anger Trap

Understanding Anger as a Secondary Emotion

Explore what may be beneath anger, how trauma and the nervous system can shape reactions, and ways to respond with greater awareness. Kathy brings together recovery reflections, practical exercises, scripture, and prayer.

  • Explore feelings, needs, and boundaries beneath anger.
  • Practice regulation, communication, and daily reflection.
  • Use chapter exercises and faith reflections at your own pace.
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91 pages · PDF · No signup required

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The 12 Steps for Everyday Life

A Guided Workbook for Personal Growth, Spiritual Connection, and Lasting Change

Explore the 12 Steps as tools for everyday growth, with Kathy’s lived experience, Christian faith, journaling prompts, and honest reflection. This guided workbook invites you to work through change one step at a time.

  • Reflect on honesty, surrender, accountability, and growth.
  • Explore spiritual connection and practical changes in daily life.
  • Work through journaling prompts at a pace that feels right for you.
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120 pages · PDF · No signup required

Make the tools your own.

Save a copy to your phone or print it. Read at your own pace, revisit the tools, and practice the ones that fit your life. You do not have to learn everything at once.

You do not have to do this alone.

Bring your questions, your progress, or simply yourself to one of our free daily recovery meetings. All recovery pathways and beliefs are welcome.

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“Bear ye one another’s burdens.” — Galatians 6:2, KJV