Recovery BASICS
Everyone in this room is capable of ________?
What is recovery/sobriety?
Often cited as the "only step that you have to do perfectly", this is an admission of powerlessness over alcohol or drugs.
What is Step 1
The step that requires asking a higher power to remove our shortcomings.
What is Step 7?
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
What is Step 12?
This is recited at the start of most 12 step groups and in groups run by Cadillac Pete here at TR
What is the Serenity Prayer?
This famous 4-word phrase often used in recovery means that no one will ever achieve perfection, but we must be willing to improve.
What is "Progress not perfection"?
This step of our recovery is where we begin to see evidence of the promises.
What is Step 9?
This is a mental technique used at the end of the session in which a person creates mental images to influence what their mind and body do in the future.
What is Visualization?
Step Four is a direct challenge to look at these types of characteristics—such as pride, greed, envy, or laziness—that have become unhealthy or hurtful.
What are character defects (or personality characteristics)?
Step Seven emphasizes that before you can accept a Higher Power's plan for your life, you must work on achieving this quality.
What is Humility?
Step Nine instructs us to make direct amends to those we have hurt, except when doing so would result in this.
What is Injuring them or others?
Spirituality and religion mean the exact same thing in Twelve Step recovery programs.
What is False? (Religion is a specific expression of belief, while spirituality is simply the awareness of a power greater than oneself).
The only requirement for 12 step group membership is a desire to stop drinking- true or false
What is true?
In the Big Book, this step is associated with a prayer that begins..."God, I offer myself to thee, to build with me and do with me as thou wilt..."
What is Step Three?
This steps asks that you make amends.
What is Step 9?
Live and let live, keep it simple, one day at a time.
What are recovery slogans?
Unlike a war where this word means defeat, in recovery it means walking away from a fight you can't win so you don't have to fight your illnesses alone.
What is Surrender?
According to Step Two, calling on a "Power greater than yourself" can help with the healing process and restore you to this.
What is Sanity?
The primary purpose of sitting down to make a list of people we've harmed in Step Eight is not to fill us with these two heavy feelings
What are guilt and grief?
In Step Eleven, this is generally thought of as "talking" to your Higher Power, while this is thought of as "listening".
What are Prayer (talking) and Meditation (listening)?
Recognition of various lengths of uninterrupted sobriety.
What is celebrating anniversaries?
(What are chips is also acceptable)