Discovery
This recovery tool involves learning to perceive and understand yourself, others, and situations more accurately rather than relying on assumptions.
What is Discovery?
What is the term for people, places, emotions, or situations that increase the risk of substance use?
What are triggers?
This Nintendo gaming system, released in 1996, featured games like Super Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64.
What is the Nintendo 64?
This coping skill involves taking slow, deep breaths to calm the body's stress response when feeling anxious or triggered.
Question: What is deep breathing?
This Step involves admitting that you are powerless over alcohol or drugs and that your life has become unmanageable.
What is Step 1?
According to Discovery, statements like "Nothing will ever change" or "Drinking is the only thing that will make me feel better" are examples of these.
What are unhelpful beliefs (or distorted thinking patterns)?
Name one healthy coping skill a person can use when experiencing cravings.
What is calling a support person, exercising, deep breathing, journaling, or attending a meeting?
This popular TV sitcom followed six friends living in New York City and premiered in 1994.
What is Friends?
This recovery coping skill encourages a person to call, text, or meet with a trusted person instead of isolating during difficult times.
What is reaching out for support?
This Step encourages believing that a Power greater than yourself can help restore you to sanity.
Question: What is Step 2?
This Discovery strategy involves checking your belief by talking with trusted people such as sponsors, counselors, therapists, or peers in recovery.
What is Ask People?
True or False: A relapse happens suddenly without any warning signs.
What is False? Relapse is usually a process with warning signs.
This R&B girl group had 90s hits including "Waterfalls," "No Scrubs," and "Creep."
Question: Who is TLC?
This coping strategy involves paying attention to the present moment without judging thoughts or feelings.
What is mindfulness?
his Step involves taking a personal inventory and honestly looking at your strengths, weaknesses, and behaviors.
What is Step 4?
: This Discovery method encourages you to safely test a belief by taking action and observing the results, much like a scientist conducting an experiment.
Question: What is Try and See?
John begins skipping recovery meetings, stops answering supportive friends, and starts thinking, "Maybe I wasn't that bad." What stage of relapse prevention is being ignored?
What is recognizing warning signs and maintaining recovery supports?
This 1997 blockbuster film featured the ill-fated voyage of a famous ocean liner and starred Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
What is Titanic?
his healthy coping skill can improve mood, reduce stress, and help manage cravings through movement and physical activity.
What is exercise?
This Step is when you admit to yourself, your Higher Power, and another person the exact nature of your wrongs.
What is Step 5?
This Discovery technique involves practicing a healthier or more positive belief, even if you're not completely convinced it is true yet.
What is Act As If?
What is the name of the plan that outlines steps to take when cravings, triggers, or high-risk situations occur?
What is a Relapse Prevention Plan?
This Chicago Bulls superstar led his team to six NBA championships during the 1990s and became a global cultural icon.
Who is Michael Jordan?
This coping technique helps individuals identify triggers, challenge unhealthy thoughts, and replace them with healthier ones.
What is cognitive restructuring (or positive self-talk)?
This Step focuses on making a list of people you have harmed and becoming willing to make amends to them.
What is Step 8?
Discovery helps people challenge unhealthy beliefs by gathering evidence, seeking perspective, testing assumptions, and doing this important recovery skill.
What is finding the truth (or reality-testing beliefs)?
Sarah feels stressed after work and wants to use substances. Instead, she calls her sponsor and goes for a walk. What relapse prevention skill is she using?
What is using coping skills and reaching out for support?
This colorful children's TV network mascot often appeared covered in green slime.
What is Nickelodeon?
When experiencing a craving, this coping skill involves observing the urge without acting on it and allowing it to pass naturally.
What is urge surfing?
This Step involves continuing to take personal inventory and promptly admitting when you are wrong.
This Step involves continuing to take personal inventory and promptly admitting when you are wrong.
Remaining stagnant/stationary in beliefs such as "The world is a terrible place" or "I can't change" can lead to this recovery danger because it reduces personal responsibility and prevents growth.
What is avoiding accountability (or becoming stuck in recovery)?
List two common warning signs that someone may be moving toward relapse.
What are isolation, increased stress, skipping meetings, negative thinking, romanticizing past use, poor self-care, or avoiding support?
This rapper's 1996 album All Eyez on Me became one of the best-selling hip-hop albums of the decade.
Question: Who is Tupac Shakur?
This relapse prevention coping skill involves having a written list of triggers, coping strategies, support contacts, and emergency steps.
Question: What is a recovery plan (or relapse prevention plan)?
According to this Step, having experienced a spiritual awakening, you carry the message to others and practice these principles in all areas of life.
What is Step 12?