The Emotional Sobriety Inventory - Revised (2021)

Allen Berger, Ph.D.

Describe What Describe Your Identify Your Identify Your Claim Your
Happene Reactio Expectation Unhealthy Emotional
Dependenc Autonom
Describe an How did you To Identify the
upsetting event in respond to the underlying The unhealthy To achieve
as much detail as situation? What did expectatio dependence that is emotional freedom,
possible. it mean to you? complete this underlying my add more self and
What did it say sentence: reaction and stay connected
about you? What unenforceable rule during trouble
was your re ected What they should is ______.
sense of self? have done or what To hold on to myself
was supposed to I need to _____.
happen was _____. *

* To Identify Your Unenforceable Rule, Answer the Following Question: What ought to have happened or what
should they have thought, or done, or said, or felt to make you feel more loved, more self-esteem, more respected,
etc.?

References: Berger, A. (2010). 12 Smart Things to do When the Booze and Drugs are Gone. Hazelden: MN.

Berger, A. (2021) 12 Essential Insights for Emotional Sobriety. 4D Publishing: CA.

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