Support System
These people often provide love, encouragement, transportation, childcare, housing, or emotional support, but may not have professional recovery training.
Who are Friends and Family or 12 Step Community?
“If I mess up once, I’ve failed completely.”
This cognitive distortion involves seeing things in black-and-white with no middle ground.
What is all-or-nothing thinking?
“How you understand and manage your emotions”
What is Emotional Wellness?
Admitting powerlessness over addiction.
What is Step 1?
This stage focuses on maintaining progress and preventing relapse over time.
What is maintenance?
This professional is trained to help individuals work through mental health, emotional, and behavioral challenges
Who is a Counselor?
“If I relapse, my entire life is ruined.”
This distortion makes you believe the worst possible outcome will happen.
What is catastrophizing?
“How you take care of your body”
What is Physical Wellness?
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him
What is Step 3?
During this stage, a person begins developing a plan and taking small steps toward change.
What is Preparation?
This person uses their own lived experience and takes on training courses in recovery to provide hope, encouragement, and support.
Who is a Peer Advocate?
“They think I’m a failure.”
This happens when you assume others are judging you without actual evidence.
What is mind reading?
“How you interact with and connect to others”
What is Social Wellness?
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves
What is Step 4?
This stage involves actively changing behaviors, such as attending meetings or avoiding triggers.
What is action?
This person typically guides someone through a recovery program and shares their experience, strength, and hope.
Who is a Sponsor?
“I slipped once, so I’ll never get better.”
This distortion takes one negative event and turns it into a never-ending pattern.
What is overgeneralization?
“What gives your life meaning and direction”
(Going to church, Meditation, prayer)
What is Spiritual Wellness?
involves making direct amends
What is Step 9?
In this stage, a person acknowledges a problem but remains ambivalent about changing.
What is contemplation?
Unlike sponsors, peers, or friends, this professional can diagnose mental health conditions and develop formal treatment plans.
Who is a Licensed Mental Health Professional?
(Therapist, Psychologist, or Psychiatrist, depending on state regulations)
“I feel hopeless, so things must be hopeless.”
This distortion treats feelings as facts.
What is emotional reasoning?
“How your environment supports or harms your well-being”
What is Enviromental Wellness?
Which step has the same number of words as the step number?
What is Step 7?
This stage of involves not yet recognizing a need for change.
What is precontemplation?