Trust
This is one quality that helps make a person feel safe to open up.
Honesty, respect, kindness, consistency, patience, nonjudgmental attitude, empathy, compassion, listening, confidentiality, understanding, emotional safety, dependability.
This basic human need includes food, water, sleep, and health.
Physical needs, basic needs, survival needs, body needs, health, rest, nutrition, sleep, hydration, medical care.
What is something you can do to staying away from people, places, or things that pull you backward.
Set boundaries, avoid triggers, have a relapse prevention plan, change people/places/things, make a recovery based choice (go to a meeting, contact your sponsor, talk to someone you trust), avoid high-risk situations.
This is someone in recovery you can call before you make a harmful decision.
Sober support, sponsor, peer support, recovery friend, accountability partner, trusted person, group member, mentor, counselor, safe family member, healthy support.
This is the relationship you have with your own thoughts, choices, needs, and growth.
Self-awareness, self-image, self-respect, inner life, self-connection, personal responsibility, self-understanding, self-care.
This means doing what you say you are going to do over time.
Consistency, reliability, dependability, follow-through, accountability, keeping your word, being steady, showing up.
This human need includes feeling protected, stable, and not living in constant chaos.
Safety, stability, security, peace, protection, healthy environment, structure, routine, safe housing, emotional safety, boundaries.
This is what recovery often teaches us to choose over chaos.
Peace, stability, safety, honesty, calm, structure, healing, balance, serenity, healthy routine, accountability, clear thinking.
This is a person in a 12-step program who helps guide someone through recovery and the steps.
Sponsor, recovery sponsor, step guide, sober mentor, accountability person.
This is what you practice when you treat yourself with honesty, patience, and dignity instead of shame.
Self-respect, self-compassion, self-care, grace, dignity, healthy self-talk, patience, forgiveness, self-worth, kindness toward self.
This is when someone respects your limits and does not pressure you to do things that are unhealthy.
Boundaries, respect, healthy limits, self-protection, saying no, emotional safety, personal space, healthy communication.
This human need includes feeling accepted, connected, and part of something healthy.
Love and belonging, connection, community, support, relationships, friendship, fellowship, family, group, sober support, acceptance, being understood.
This is when a person stops hiding and starts telling the truth about what they need, feel, or struggle with.
Honesty, vulnerability, openness, communication, transparency, accountability, self-awareness, asking for help, emotional honesty.
What is it called when someone influence negative behaviors on you?
Enabling, toxic relationship, high-risk person, using friend, old people/places/things, unhealthy influence, codependency, manipulation.
This is the recovery skill of noticing what you need before you explode, isolate, or relapse.
Self-awareness, emotional awareness, mindfulness, checking in with yourself, identifying needs, recognizing triggers, relapse prevention, paying attention, honesty with self.
This is something that takes time to build but can be damaged quickly by dishonesty, secrecy, or betrayal.
Trust, safety, credibility, relationship security, confidence in someone, emotional safety, dependability.
This need includes dignity, confidence, self-respect, and feeling capable.
Esteem, self-respect, confidence, dignity, self-worth, self-esteem, feeling capable, healthy pride, personal value.
What are some ways a meetings, group, sponsor, and/or sober support can help protect recovery.
Connection, accountability, support, belonging, encouragement, fellowship, honesty, shared experience, guidance, relapse prevention, not isolating.
This is when someone cares about you but still tells you the truth and does not excuse harmful behavior.
Accountability, healthy support, tough love, honesty, truth with compassion, correction, guidance, sponsorship, responsible support, loving confrontation.
This is when your actions begin to match the kind of person you say you want to be.
Integrity, alignment, honesty, accountability, consistency, character, walking the talk, living your values, follow-through, personal responsibility.
This is the recovery skill of telling someone what is really going on before it turns into a crisis.
Asking for help, honesty, reaching out, vulnerability, accountability, using sober support, calling a sponsor, communication, self-awareness, relapse prevention.
In addiction, substances can become this kind of answer to real human needs.
Coping mechanism- also acceptable are, unhealthy reaction, temporary relief, counterfeit solution, quick fix, escape, survival behavior, false comfort, shortcut, substitute.
This is the process of making decisions that support healthier people, healthier choices, and a healthier way of living.
Growth, recovery, change, transformation, healing, maturity, spiritual growth, personal development, changed desires, renewing your mind, building a new life.
This is the difference between support and enabling; Support helps you grow, while enabling helps you stay______.
Stuck, sick and tired, unchanged, comfortable in dysfunction, dependent, avoiding responsibility, repeating old patterns, in denial, unstable.
This is the idea that the qualities we look for in trusted people are often the same qualities recovery is trying to grow in us.
Development, transformation, sobriety, spiritual growth, maturity, self-improvement, healing, practicing what we value.