Physical
Name a time your body told you something was wrong before your mind caught up.
Personal share — full points for any honest, specific answer.
Name a time you felt an emotion so strongly it scared you. What was it — and what did you do with it?
Personal share — full points for naming the emotion and the response.
Name a time a family member tried to help — but their help made things harder. What did they do?
Personal share — full points for naming the behaviour and what would have helped more.
Name a time you had genuine fun in recovery — not just survived a social situation, but actually enjoyed yourself.
Personal share — full points for naming the activity and why it worked.
Name a time having a routine — even a simple one — protected your recovery. What was the routine?
Personal share — full points for naming the routine and what it protected them from.
True or false: A 20-minute walk can reduce craving intensity by up to 50%.
True
This term describes the ability to feel emotions without being controlled by them — often called the deeper layer of recovery.
What is emotional sobriety?
Enabling protects someone from ___, while supporting holds them accountable with ___. Two words.
What are CONSEQUENCES and LOVE?
"The opposite of addiction is ___." — Johann Hari. One word.
What is Connection
"Recovery is not what you ___ — it is how you ___." Two words.
What are STOP and LIVE?
Name a time physical self-care — sleep, food, or movement — directly helped your recovery that week.
Personal share — full points for a specific connection.
True or false: Positive emotions like euphoria and overconfidence can be relapse triggers.
What is TRUE? The "pink cloud" is a known relapse risk state.
True or false: Once a person achieves sobriety, family relationships automatically heal.
What is FALSE? Relationships require deliberate repair — honesty, time, and consistency.
True or false: A sober social life naturally develops once you stop using.
What is FALSE? A sober social life must be deliberately built.
True or false: Being sober is the same as being in recovery.
What is FALSE? Sobriety is necessary but not sufficient. Recovery includes how you live.
This hormone — the "stress hormone" — is elevated in active addiction and decreases with exercise and sleep.
What is cortisol?
Name a time you used something — anything — to avoid feeling a feeling. What were you running from?
Personal share — full points for honesty about the feeling being avoided.
Name a time you had to set a limit with someone you love to protect your recovery. What happened?
Personal share — full points for naming the limit and an honest reflection on the cost.
Name a time you felt lonely in recovery — genuinely cut off. What did you do with that feeling?
Personal share — full points for naming the feeling honestly and what happened next.
Name a time your daily life got so out of balance that your recovery started to wobble. What did you notice first?
Personal share — full points for naming the first sign and which area went off first.
Name a time your physical health was directly connected to a relapse or near-relapse. What was the physical state — and where did it lead?
Personal share — full points for naming the specific state and the link to risk.
This DBT skill involves doing the opposite of what the emotion urges — when shame says hide, you reach out instead.
What is opposite action?
This term describes the family pattern where one member's needs dominate all others and the family organises itself around the addiction.
What is codependency — or enmeshment?
Name a time your old social world pulled at you — old friends, old places, old routines. How did you handle it — and what did it cost you?
ANSWER
Personal share — full points for honesty about the pull and naming what they did in response.
Name a time you felt genuinely well — not just sober, but actually well. What did your daily life look like during that period?
Personal share — full points for concrete specifics: wake time, activities, connection.