The rates of heart disease, stroke, HIV, Hepatitis, and mental disorders move in this direction when addiction is also present.
Increase, go up, or get worse
What are triggers?
1. People 2. Places 3. Things
This is the practice of regularly taking time to focus on your own physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being
Self-care
This term refers to the healthy ability to understand the thoughts, feelings, and experiences of another.
Empathy or empathizing
What are the 12-step fellowships?
A group for men and women who have a desire to stop using drugs or alcohol. Ex. NA, AA, CA….etc
Whatever the substance is, once addiction to that substance occurs for long enough this important organ drastically changes the way it functions
The brain
What are goals?
A desire or dream you try to achieve in a certain amount of time, an aim or desired result.
Some people in recovery need help with past difficult life events, distressing experiences, and memories often referred to as a history of _______
Trauma
To maintain healthy relationships, we should identify and communicate these physical, psychological, and emotional limits to protect ourselves from being used, manipulated, or violated by others.
Boundaries
What is the serenity prayer?
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
This neurotransmitter is closely linked to the mind's reward system and is commonly associated with pleasure and reinforcement.
Dopamine
What is H.A.L.T.?
Some high-risk situations to avoid are to not let yourself get too Hungry, Angry, Lonely or Tired.
This evidence-based approach to maintaining recovery from addiction involves identifying triggers and warning signs and then developing specific coping strategies to avoid a return to negative behaviors.
Relapse Prevention
This is the two-word term for the cooperative process of effectively resolving disputes and settling interpersonal arguments and fights in a positive manner that both sides can agree upon.
Conflict Resolution
What is step 4?
Encourages one to make "a searching and fearless moral inventory" of themselves.
These hormones often referred to as the "feel-good" hormones, are released during activities that promote well-being, like exercise, laughter, creative expression, and socialization
Endorphins
Our brain learns by ________ and _________.
repetition and reward
This skills-based form of treatment used in substance use and mental health recovery focuses on identifying and changing thinking patterns to help change feelings and negative behaviors (Hint: also known as CBT?)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
This two-word term describes when you carefully hear and focus on what another person is saying and then repeat back what you heard to confirm that you understood them.
Active listening or reflective listening
What are 12- step slogans?
Live and let live, Keep it simple, One day at a time, Let go and let God.
This highly advanced and complex area of the human brain is associated with decision-making and impulse control, and is strongly impacted by addiction and intoxication
Prefrontal Cortex
a sponsor, a relapse prevention plan, laughter, service, work, being with family, hobbies etc.
This approach to addiction recovery focuses on minimizing the negative consequences associated with active substance use by providing tools, strategies, resources, and supports to reduce the risks and dangers associated with that use.
This refers to a close and profound emotional, psychological, and physical connection between individuals. that involves a deep level of trust, respect, vulnerability, and mutual understanding.
Intimacy
Three indispensable spiritual principles in the 12 step fellowship are? (hint, think of H.O.W.)
honesty, open-mindedness, and willingness