Relapse Prevention
Recognize situations, people or emotions that may lead to cravings or desire to relapse.
What is Identifying Triggers?
This is the practice of being present in the moment while calmly acknowledging one's thoughts and feelings.
What is mindfulness?
Experiences, people, places and feelings associated with substance use.
What are Triggers?
Global, peer led mutual aid fellowship based on abstinence based recovery model from alcoholism through spiritually inclined 12-step program.
What is Alcoholics Anonymous?
Diagnosed with both a substance use and psychiatric disorder.
What are co-occurring disorders?
Establishing a reliable support network
What is Support System?
STOP Technique
What is Slow Down, Take a Step Back, Observe your thoughts and Proceed mindfully?
People, places, and things associated with alcohol or other drug use.
What are External Triggers?
Science-informed, self-help program for people with problematic addictive behaviors grounded in CBT.
What is SMART recovery?
A desperate attempt to stay in control, to have things the way we want them.
What is Bargaining?
Integration of pharmacological treatments.
What is Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)?
Practice of taking care of ones self to enhance and restore physical , mental, emotional and social wellbeing.
What is Self-Care?
Thoughts, emotions, mental states that contribute to cravings and/or use.
What are internal triggers?
Peer led group based upon Buddhist teachings emphasizing mindfulness and meditation.
What is Recovery Dharma?
The lingering emotional and psychological effects of alcohol and drug withdrawal.
Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS)
Behaviors, thoughts or feelings that often precedes a relapse. Indicators that show up before actual relapse.
What are Warning Signs?
Sense of connection to something bigger than ourselves that can provide us with greater meaning in life.
What is Spirituality?
Allowing your thoughts to center on and embellish the "fun and good" memories of active use.
What is Euphoric Recall?
Peer support program tailored specifically to women overcoming substance use disorders.
What is Women For Sobriety?
Painful feeling or experience believing we are flawed therefore unworthy of acceptance and belonging.
What is Shame?
Implementing structure and developing a schedule can help ensure that you are managing your time and maintaining balanced living.
Identify things within your schedule that could aid in relapse prevention
What is Recovery Routine?
Meetings, Sponsor, Hobbies, Sober Network/supports, Mental Health therapy, MAT
Thinking ahead of potential outcomes and consequences if one were to use.
What is playing the tape forward?
Distorting how hard sobriety is while minimizing the benefits of sobriety.
What is Awfulizing?
12 step program designed to help people develop functional, healthy relationships.
What is CoDA?
The ability to offer the same care, concern and warmth to ourselves that we would give another person.
What is Self-compassion?