Ted Talks
In the Ted Talk, Isolation is the dream-killer, not your attitude, what were Rony's goals and how did the group help him?
He wanted a better apartment- group helped him paint and clean up.
He wanted a girlfriend- group held parties for him to meet women.
Every stressful situation has two major parts:
1. the Stress and 2. the stressor
We cannot change the difficult people in our lives, nor can we please everyone. But by applying the spiritual principles we’ve learned in NA, we can learn to ___ them.
love
Something of a spiritual successor to the great pictures of Douglas Sirk—glossy on the outside, and profound the deeper you dig—this remake centers on a fading rock star with severe substance abuse issues, and a rising pop star he becomes involved with. This romance film examining substance use and mental health issues was nominated for 8 oscars in 2018.
A Star is Born
What was the first name of our speaker from 2 weeks ago?
Chris
In the Ted Talk How to Make Stress your Friend the speaker said that people who experienced stress in the previous year had a 43% increased risk of dying. BUT that was only true for those who believed what ?
Stress was harmful for your health
This is indicated as one of the main triggers for relapse
Stress
We are free to discard the ideas that inhibit our growth. We are capable of stretching our boundaries to encompass new ideas and new experiences. We are free to laugh, to cry, and, above all, to enjoy our recovery.Just for today: I will let go of my self-imposed _____ and open my mind to new ideas.
Limitations
Jamie Foxx won a Best Actor Academy Award, Golden Globe, SAG Award, BAFTA and Critics’ Choice Award for his portrayal in Taylor Hackford‘s musical biopic. Foxx's character struggled with heroin addiction for nearly two decades, before successfully getting clean in the 1960's. What is this movie?
Ray
some sort of internal or external stimulus that causes the desire to use
trigger
In the Ted Talk How to stop feeling anxious about anxiety The speaker talks about 3 things he can do to help deal with his anxiety. The first being that he stopped believing what?
That he was sick or that there was something wrong with him
is the internal reaction to those demands of people, places, events, rules, regulations, expectations.
Stress
Our spiritual condition is never static; if it’s not growing, it’s decaying. If we stand still, our spiritual progress will ___ its upward momentum.
lose
This 2018 film starring Adam Sandler is a crime caper about a compulsive gambler who puts everything on the bet of a lifetime.
Uncut Gems
DAILY DOUBLE
What was the saying the speaker used about the importance of communicating about what you're going through in recovery? His sponsor taught it to him .
(3 words first word start with a V)
In Ted Talk How to Make Stress your friend, the speaker talked about a study where the participants were given a stress test and for those who were told and believed that their stress response was helpful, what happened to their blood vessels?
They stayed relaxed
A three-step process. To a large degree, it is not events that cause stress or other feelings, but rather people’s beliefs about those events. It may help to look at stressful events as a threestep process:
1. The stressor event
2. Beliefs
3.?
3. Emotional Consequences
(emotional response or just response will work)
Truth connects us to ___ while fear, isolation, and dishonesty alienate us from it.
life
In a departure from his early work mostly in comedies, Michael Keaton starred in Glen Gordon Caron‘s drama about a real estate agent whose life becomes unmanageable.
Clean & Sober
The methods a person uses to deal with stressful situations. These may help a person face a situation, take action, and be flexible and persistent in solving problems.
Coping skills
In the Ted Talk How to stop feeling anxious about anxiety The speaker talks about his mind as a ship and what does he compare his anxiety to?(Who is anxiety on the ship?)
Crew members
are those people, places, events, rules, regulations, expectations, or requests that put some kind of demand on people.
stressor
And what is that “natural condition”? It is the condition we truly seek for ourselves, a reflection of our highest dreams. How do we know this? Because our thoughts are being shaped in recovery by the spiritual ideals we find in our developing relationship with the God we’ve come to understand in NA.
No ___ does addiction shape our thoughts. Today, our lives are being shaped by our recovery and our Higher Power.
Longer
One of Meg Ryan‘s all-time great performances is front-and-center in this romantic drama about a wife and mother whose problem drinking leads her to rehab. Co-starring Andy Garcia, this movie examines alcoholism as a family disease, and the issue of enabling. Ryan received a SAG nomination for Best Actress for her work here.
When a Man Loves a Woman
What is the number one supportive factor for early recovery?
Family Support