12 Steps
May God grant me the power to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can't, and the wisdom to know the difference.
What is the Serenity Prayer?
Skills such as counting, 5-4-3-2-1, or naming Sports teams in your head manage intense emotions and bring yourself back to the present moment.
What are Grounding Skills?
A mental health diagnosis characterized by symptoms, such as intrusive thoughts and avoidance, occurring after experiencing or witnessing a life threatening event.
What is PTSD?
Anonymous groups that offer support to people recovering from substance use disorders.
What is AA, NA, Recovery Groups?
The only person who can make me angry is...
What is Me?
Accepting that substance use has made our lives unmanageable.
What is the First Step?
Calling a sober friend or attending a meeting.
What is Sober Support?
Feeling like a traumatic event is happening again, sometimes while sleeping in the form of night terrors.
What is a flashback?
People, places, and things that remind you of past use
What are Triggers?
Negative thoughts that we have about ourselves, others, or the world that aren't necessarily true that impact our mood and feelings of self-worth.
What are Cognitive Distortions or Automatic Negative Thoughts?
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
What is the Fourth Step?
Skills include Acceptance, Distress Tolerance, Emotional Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness and was first developed by Marsha Linehan to treatment Borderline Personality Disorder
What is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)?
Number one priority when healing from trauma and substance use disorders.
What is Safety?
A plan you make ahead of time that identifies potential relapse triggers and coping skills you will use to manage triggers.
What is a Relapse Prevention Plan?
Doing something different from how you're currently feeling, ie when sad, watch a funny movie.
What is Opposite Emotion?
Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
What is the definition of insanity?
A type of therapy that targets changing thinking and behavior patterns.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
A type of therapy that combines processing the traumatic event while experiencing bilateral stimulation.
What is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) or Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)?
Symptoms such as depression, brain fog, and craving that occur 1 month - 1 year after stopping substance use.
What are Post acute withdrawal syndrome (PAWS)?
Coping skills (category) that help us manage intense emotions.
What is Distress Tolerance?
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
What is the Twelfth Step or Service Work?
Utilizing both your logic mind with your feeling mind.
What is Wise Mind?
A symptom of PTSD - feeling disconnected or separate from oneself.
What is Dissociation?
The use of medication to support recovery, such as methadone, suboxone, naltrexone, or Antabuse.
What is Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)?
The acronym HALT stands for...
What is Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired?