Building and Maintaning Motivation
In SMART Recovery, motivation often begins with identifying clear reasons for change. This set of reasons is often referred to as your personal "why" for pursuing recovery.
Reasons for Change
SMART encourages people to notice what situations, emotions, or thoughts tend to come before urges. These are known as what?
Triggers
Understanding your emotional triggers - like stress or frustration - helps you respond more intentionally. These emotional signals are an example of what?
Cues or Warning Signs
SMART suggests that healthier activities - like exercise, social connection, or creative interests - can replace harmful habits and improve balance. These positive activities are often called what?
Healthy Alternatives
SMART
Self-Management And Recovery Training
This mathematical constant represents the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.
Pi - 3.14
Motivation often grows when people connect their recovery goals with things that matter deeply to them, such as relationships or personal growth. SMART refers to these guiding factors as what?
Personal Values
SMART sometimes describes coping with urges as watching the urge rise and fall without reacting, similar to mindfulness techniques. This practice is often called what?
Urge Surfing
Replacing exaggerated or fear-based thoughts with more balanced ones helps reduce emotional distress. This SMART technique is known as what>
Challenging or Disputing Unhelpful Thoughts
In SMART, living a balanced life involves noticing when one area - like stress, fatigue, or relationships - is out of alignment, because imbalance often increases what?
Urges or Risky Behaviors
This acronym refers to a widely used therapy model in SMART Recovery that focuses on how thoughts influence feelings and behaviors.
This metal is liquid at room temperature.
Mercury
SMART teaches that motivation grows when behavior aligns with your internal priorities rather than pressure from others. This type of motivation is known as _____.
Internal (or intrinsic) Motivation
One helpful SMART strategy involves shifting your attention to an engaging task when an urge shows up, giving your mind something else to focus on. This is an example of what coping technique?
Distraction or Refocusing
SMART emphasizes that feelings are influenced not by events themselves but by the meaning we give those events. This principle comes from what cognitive-behavioral idea?
ABC Model of Emotional Responses
SMART encourages people to connect their recovery actions with their personal priorities, such as family, health, or growth. These priorities are known as what?
Core Values
This acronym describes the sequence, Activating Event - Beliefs - Consequences, used in SMART to analyze reactions and reduce urges.
ABC Model
This famous detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is known for his logical reasoning and love of violin playing.
Sherlock Holmes
This SMART tool asks you to list benefits and drawbacks of your desired change to clarify and maintain motivation.
Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA)
SMART reminds people that urges often arise when a strong feeling seems unbearable, but managing the feeling directly can reduce the craving. This shows the link between urges and what underlying factor?
Emotional Discomfort
Borrowed from Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, this SMART tool helps you trace from events to beliefs and emotional outcomes.
ABC Exercise
SMART's worksheet for this purpose encourages planning activities for the week to reduce risky downtime and support recovery goals.
Plan Your Week Tool
In SMART, this acronym stands for a tool that compares the pros and cons of a behavior to help strengthen commitment to change.
This subatomic particle, discovered in 1932, has the same mass as an electron but carries a positive electric charge.
Positron
Through this worksheet, participants reflect on how far they've come, envision their future with and without change, and list actions to keep motivation strong.
Maintaining Motivation Worksheet
This worksheet logs the date, strength, triggers, and coping strategies during moments of craving to reveal patterns and reduce reactivity.
Urge Log Worksheet
Using this tool, participants challenge distorted beliefs by identifying and reframing unhelpeful or irrational thoughts to healthier alternatives.
Disputing Unhelpful or Irrational Beliefs Tool
This tool focuses on rediscovering or exploring hobbies and interests that help bring joy and purpose back into life.
Explore New Pursuits and Passions Worksheet
This therapeutic approach from Albert Ellis, integrated into SMART Recovery, teaches that beliefs - not events - create emotional consequences. (REBT)
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy - REBT
This desert, spanning parts of China and Mongolia, is one of the fastest-expanding deserts in the world and is known for extreme temperature swings.
Gobi Desert