Unleashing Imagination: Building Blocs Literacy Workshop in Pictures

 Available Oct 2025

The Used to Survive™ Series is a seven-book, trauma-informed recovery curriculum designed to help individuals move from survival to sustainable living. Created by The BrightPath Academy Team and published by BuildingBlocs Literacy, the series reframes addiction not as a moral failure but as an adaptation - a survival strategy that worked until it didn’t.

Each book tackles a distinct stage of the journey: from Why You Used (naming addiction as survival) to Still Standing (building a life that lasts). Along the way, volumes address early recovery, cravings, shame, parenting, friendships, and identity rebuilding. Together, the series forms a full-spectrum framework for resilience, relapse prevention, and long-term healing.

What sets this program apart is its integrated structure: every chapter blends lived experience (Uncle Aaron’s Check-Ins), body-based health notes (Nurse C), and trauma-informed advisories (Dr. Jones) with tools, exercises, and reflection prompts. Readers don’t just hear about recovery - they practice it in real time.

The voice is raw, direct, and unflinchingly honest. The framework is practical, accessible, and adaptable for individuals, peer groups, treatment programs, corrections, and reentry initiatives. Rooted in emotional safety and CASEL-aligned SEL principles, Used to Survive™ bridges the gap between clinical models and lived-experience guidance.

It’s not a lecture. It’s survival wisdom turned into a system. Readers come away not just sober, but equipped to build stability, connection, and identity beyond addiction.

• Audience: Individuals in recovery, peer groups, reentry programs, treatment centers, corrections
• Core Focus: Addiction as adaptation, trauma-informed healing, relapse prevention, long-term resilience
• Format: 7-book series + facilitator guides for 10-week group implementation
• Tools: EMO-PATH™ Core 7 emotional mapping, Red Flag Protocol safety system, craving interrupters, shame reframes, resilience drills
• Setting: Treatment programs, correctional facilities, reentry services, peer-support groups, individual use
• Lens: Trauma-informed, resilience-focused, inclusive, and grounded in lived experience