Do's & Don'ts
Stay out of this in the first year of recovery
What is a relationship
The step to examine resentments
Step 4 - Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
HALT?
What is a check in with myself. Am I hungry, angry, lonely or tired?
EASY DOES IT
What is...relax, take it easy, don't rush things
Person, place, or thing that causes me to feel like using/drinking
What is a trigger
Do not do these things between meetings
What is drink or use substances
Step 1- We admitted we were powerless over our addiction and our lives had become unmanageable
Thinking of ways to use again without repercussions, fantasizing, making plans
What is Mental Relapse Mode
Progress, not perfection
What is, it's ok to not be perfect, I am still making progress
Remembering only good times in active addiction and forgetting the reality and bad times
What is Romanticizing
Being your own sponsor
What is don't
The Step I make a decision to turn my will and life over to a Higher Power
Step 3 - Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him.
It's good to get one of these so they can support me in recovery and help me through steps
A sponsor
First Things First
What is....Organizing priorities. Recovery comes first or we won't have all the other things.
A place people go to sit and talk about alcohol problems
What is Alcoholics Anonymous
Singing karaoke at a bar but not planning to drink
What is don't
The Hooking up Step
The 13th Step! It's bad!
Someone who is sober, but is not doing the inner work or working a program and they're basically just the same as they were before but not drinking/using
A dry drunk
Live and Let Live
What is Minding your own business
A place to live that transitions a person back into life but still supported in recovery
What is Sober living
Going to meet old friends who drink or use still
What is Don't!
The step that we begin to give back what we were freely given
Step 12- Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry the message to addicts and to practice these principles in all our affairs
Things people do to stay sober
What is go to meetings, do the steps, get a homegroup and get a sponsor?
One day at a time
What is....Don't worry about tomorrow or stay stuck in yesterday. Just focus on staying sober today.
Giving back what was freely given
What is service work and carrying the message