Relapse Prevention
These external factors, like certain places or people, can lead to cravings
What are environmental triggers?
This giggling red monster was the hit of the holidays as the best-selling Christmas toy of 1996.
What is Tickle Me Elmo?
This practice involves sitting quietly and focusing on the present moment
What is mindfulness meditation?
This distortion involves thinking in extremes, like "I will never succeed."
What is black-and-white thinking (or all-or-nothing thinking)?
This child actor played a wizard for many years and also struggled with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and alcoholism once he reached stardom but has been in recovery since 2010.
Who is Daniel Radcliffe?
This is a natural part of the recovery process, and it can happen at any time of the process.
What is relapsing?
In Germany, this frightening anti-Santa Claus with goat’s hooves and horns punish children who misbehave instead of bringing them gifts.
Who is Krampus?
A creative way to cope involves sketching, painting, or coloring.
What is art therapy or creative expression?
Assuming you know what others are thinking without evidence.
What is mind reading?
Who is Dax Shepard?
Preparing a step-by-step plan for handling specific high-risk situations.
What is a Relapse Prevention Plan?
This holiday song has spent 16 weeks at the top of the Hot 100 chart, which is the most for any holiday song.
What is All I Want for Christmas is You?
A physical activity that helps reduce stress by releasing endorphins.
What is exercise?
Replacing negative thoughts with more balanced, realistic ones.
What is cognitive restructuring?
He is an Irish actor who has had roles as a horrible boss, a vampire and a mob boss. Though he has battled with his sobriety since 2006, he recently announced being 10 years sober from alcohol this year.
Who is Colin Farrell?
A group of people you trust and feel safe with when talking about your addiction or sobriety.
What is a sober support network?
In this country, children place their shoes out for St. Nicholas to fill with gifts.
What is the Netherlands?
This calming activity involves organizing or rearranging your living space.
What is decluttering or cleaning?
Practicing this skill can help break the cycle of procrastination and overwhelm.
What is behavioral activation?
This actor has been a cultural icon since her role in “Halloween” in 1978. The star says “My sobriety has been the key to my freedom,” and has been in recovery from alcohol and drug use for over 20 years.
Who is Jaime Lee Curtis?
Neglecting self-care and falling into unhealthy routines.
What is ignoring basic needs?
In "Home Alone," this is the city Kevin's family travels to while he is left behind.
What is Paris?
This practice involves engaging with a novel, biography, or self-help book.
What is reading?
Interpreting events in a way that makes them about you, even if they aren't.
What is personalization?
The most famous and successful horror author in history has been in recovery for 33 years.
Who is Stephen King?