Relapse Prevention
This was begun in Akron, Ohio, in 1935, with a chance meeting between two alcoholics, one a doctor and one a broker.
Alcoholics Anonymous AA
A person’s most central ideas about themselves, others, and the world. They act like a lens through which every situation and life experience is seen.
What are Core Beliefs?
A mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique.
What is Mindfulness?
A movie about a hard-drinking New York journalist who takes her reputation as the life and soul of the party too far when she knocks over her sister's wedding cake and crashes the bridal limousine. When a court orders her into rehab for a month, she initially refuses, but eventually she begins to take her substance abuse seriously.
28 Days
Guilt is feeling bad about what you've done. ______ is feeling bad about who you are.
What is Shame?
Feelings, people, or situations that cause the brain to want to use substances. If you're not aware of them, they can cause you to relapse
Triggers
Neuropsychological disorder characterized by a persistent and intense urge to engage in certain behaviors, despite substantial harm and other negative consequences. A treatable, chronic medical disease involving complex interactions among brain circuits, genetics, the environment, and an individual’s life experiences.
What is Addiction?
Fight, Flight, Freeze and Fawn
What are Lizard Brain responses?
This metallic man has been in recovery since 2003. He was introduced to drugs by his famous father and spent time in jail. He saw a resurgence in his popularity since entering recovery and staring in a series of hit movies.
Robert Downey Jr.
Meetings are self-supporting through this.
What is OUR OWN CONTRIBUTIONS?
This state of mind can be fatal for recovery! It's characterized by being too comfortable or not feeling motivated to continue doing the work
Complacency
Symptoms you experience several weeks or months after you have finished detoxing that are related to the body healing from substance use.
What is Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS)?
The practice of taking an active role in regularly doing things that improve your well-being and happiness, in particular during periods of stress.
What is Self-Care?
This famous British singer, songwriter, and pianist recently had a biopic made of his life. He was knighted by the Queen of England and is one of the best selling musical artists of all time. He went through recovery, built AA/NA meetings into his tour schedule, and has also sponsored other celebrities such as Eminem.
Sir Elton John
This is the process by which the addicted brain invents excuses that allow the person in recovery to edge close enough to relapse situations that accidents can happen.
What is Justification?
A powerful desire to use substances
Cravings
The ability of the brain to form and reorganize synaptic connections, especially in response to learning, or an experience or following injury.
Neuroplasticity
The examination or observation of one's own mental and emotional processes.
What is Introspection?
A biopic of a famous country music legend and his rise to fame in Tennessee. While on tour, he meets the love of his life, singer June Carter. However, things take a turn when he becomes involved in drugs and his marriage to first wife, Vivian, begins to fall apart. June eventually helps him recover from his addiction and he proposes to her in front of a live audience.
Walk the Line
We must do this for ourselves before we can do this for others.
What is FORGIVE?
Identifying and writing down triggers, coping skills, people, and activities that can help prevent a relapse
Relapse Prevention Plan
Emotional Outbursts, Anxiety & Irritability, Depression & Anhedonia, Difficulty dealing with stress, Fatigue, Hard time sleeping (strange dreams, changes in sleep pattern), Memory Problems, Trouble thinking clearly (making decisions & solving problems), Dizziness (problems with balance and delayed reflexes).
What are symptoms of PAWS?
Thoughts that cause individuals to perceive reality inaccurately.
What are Cognitive Distortions?
This famous actor is known for his character named after a weapon. He served jail time and became a boxing champion in San Quentin, after which he completed a 12-step program and has been sober for over 4 decades. He was first discovered as an actor while attending an AA meeting! Now he is a successful restaurateur and appeared as the Racoon in the Masked Singer show.
Danny Trejo
A natural high, feelings of elation and euphoria in early sobriety.
What is the 'Pink Cloud'?