Coping skills
This coping skill helps reduce stress by slowing your breathing and calming your body.
Deep- breathing exercises
This emotion is often described as feeling nervous, worried, or overwhelmed about what might happen next.
Anxiety
This is the ability to respect and protect your own needs while also respecting others.
Boundaries
Recovery is this type of process that includes progress, setbacks, and continued growth over time.
A journey
This self-care habit helps regulate mood, focus, and emotional stability by giving your brain time to recover.
Sleeping
This coping skill helps people notice emotions without reacting impulsively.
Emotional regulation
This emotional state can happen when someone feels emotionally, mentally, and physically drained from ongoing stress.
Burn-Out
This type of communication is clear, respectful, and honest without being aggressive or passive.
Assertive Communication
This is the term for strong urges or desires to use substances.
Cravings
This self-care strategy includes planning rest, support, and coping tools before stress or cravings happen.
Self-care plan
This strategy helps reduce anxiety by focusing attention on the present moment without judgment.
Mindfulness
This skill involves understanding another person’s emotions and perspectives without judging them.
Empathy
This unhealthy behavior involves controlling, isolating, or pressuring someone in a relationship.
Manipulation
This recovery concept means recognizing that setbacks are part of progress, not failure.
Growth mindset
Data suggests that identifying triggers early helps reduce the likelihood of this.
Relapse Prevention
This coping skill involves tolerating uncomfortable emotions safely instead of trying to escape or avoid them.
Distress tolerance
In CBT, this idea says that thoughts, feelings, and behaviors all influence each other.
Cognitive triangle
This skill means listening carefully to understand someone’s feelings before responding.
Active Listening
This step involves admitting the exact nature of your wrongs to yourself, another person, and a higher power.
Step 5
Research shows this self-care habit helps regulate mood by stabilizing blood sugar and energy levels throughout the day.
Eating balanced meals
This coping strategy involves recognizing early warning signs before stress, cravings, or emotions become overwhelming.
Self-Awareness
This is the CBT term for deeply held beliefs about yourself, others, or the world that shape emotions.
Core Beliefs
Research shows this is one of the strongest protective factors against relapse and risky behavior in youth recovery.
Positive supportive relationships
This step involves humbly asking for help to remove shortcomings.
Step 7
This part of the brain is responsible for decision-making and is still developing into early adulthood.
Prefrontal cortex