Getting Started
Who is the most important person in any recovery group?
The newcomer
The second most commonly used mind-altering substance worldwide, behind caffeine.
Alcohol.
What we use to respond to life's challenges. It could range from exercise to asking a friend for help, among other things.
What is a coping skill?
"It works if you_______________"
Work it.
Present-moment awareness without judgement.
Mindfulness
What is the only requirement to begin your recovery?
A desire to stop using drugs and alcohol.
What are the three outcomes you can expect if you continue to use?
Jails, institutions, death.
Replacing a harmful habit, such as drinking, for a less harmful one, such as eating candy.
Harm reduction
"There's nothing so bad that..."
"... a drink can't make worse."
True or false: Mindfulness can only be practiced when conditions are right (quiet, peaceful, etc.)
False... checking in with your mind, getting grounded and centered can be done ANYTIME.
You risk losing anything you put...
in front of your sobriety.
What are the two classes of drugs that can be fatal to withdraw from?
Alcohol and benzos.
An assessment of our successes and failures, strengths and defects which can be done on a daily basis
A personal inventory.
"Take what you need and____________."
...leave the rest.
A higher power.
Step One says “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol and that our lives had become ____________.”
Unmanageable
Name three symptoms of alcohol withdrawal.
Seizures, anxiety, heart palpitations, cold sweats, trembling, hallucinations.
Known in the recovery world as the opposite of addiction.
Connection
"Recovery is a(n) __________job."
Inside
I don’t need to define it, I just know that I’m not it.
God
One of the most common & effective coping skills a person in early recovery can develop is, this string of behaviors characterized by "a sequence of actions regularly followed"...
Routine
Guess the number of alcohol-related deaths in the US yearly. Closest group wins.
Roughly 90,000
What are the three stages of relapse?
Emotional, mental, physical.
"To keep your sobriety you have to__________".
Give it away.
We are told not to quit before this happens.
The miracle.