Recovery/12-steps
Someone who provides guidance through step work.
What is a sponsor?
This is the difference between an INTERNAL trigger and and EXTERNAL trigger.
What are Thoughts, Feelings, and Physical Sensations vs. People, Places, Things, or Situations
Seeing situations as all good or all bad with no middle ground.
What is Black and White thinking?
It reduces idle time, increases accountability, and creates healthy routines.
What is structure?
A limit that protects physical, emotional, or mental well-being.
What is a healthy boundary?
The first book that should be read when working a 12 step program.
What is the Big Book or Basic Text?
These are 3 Internal Triggers.
What are Anxiety, anger, loneliness, boredom, shame, excitement, stress, sadness, etc. (any 3 of these)
What is catastrophizing?
The practice of noticing thoughts without judgement.
What is meditation?
Refusing to take responsibility for someone else's feelings.
What is an emotional boundary?
It's the reason why people introduce themselves by first name only.
What is the principle of anonymity?
Something that increases the urge to use.
What are cravings?
"Everyone thinks I'm a failure." Is an example of this common mistake.
What is believing in mind reading?
A list of things that can change your perspective for the day, especially when written in the morning.
What is a gratitude list?
These boundaries protect your personal space, body, and physical safety.
What are physical boundaries?
There are 12 of these.
What are the 12 steps?
These are great things to utilize when you experience a trigger.
What are coping skills? (or coping tools)
These are inaccurate or unhelpful thoughts that can affect our emotions and behaviors.
What are cognitive distortions?
A tool that can be used prior to going to bed that increases the ability to get restful sleep.
What is meditation?
Resentment is the result of this.
What are unhealthy boundaries?
A place you have committed to attend every week.
What is a home group?
What is an external and internal trigger?
A technique utilized with your therapist to help stop distorted thinking.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (or CBT)
What is a grounding technique?
These boundaries involve how you spend, save, or lend money.
What are financial boundaries?