Mental Health
This practice can help you feel more centered and connected to your body and can be done anywhere, any time.
What are breathing exercises?
This step is the process of admitting powerlessness.
What is step 1?
A guide who helps you work the steps.
What is a sponsor?
This is the drug '420' refers to.
What is marijuana?
The Olympic sport of those with anxiety disorders.
What is overthinking?
This is what the acronym PTSD stands for.
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?
Mentioned in Step 2, this doesn't have to be religious.
What is a Higher Power?
A return to using after a period of abstinence.
What is a relapse?
This could save the life of someone having a fentanyl overdose.
What is Narcan/Naloxone?
This person at the meeting has been around forever and seen it all.
Who is the old-timer?
This is the practice of emptying your mind and allowing your thoughts to pass through without chasing them.
What is meditation?
The searching and fearless kind you take in Step 4.
What is moral inventory?
Giving back to others in recovery, often through H&I, meeting commitments or outreach to others in recovery.
What is service work?
During this time period in the US, alcohol was illegal.
What is 'Prohibition'?
When your 'quick check in' becomes a full blown autobiography.
What is oversharing?
These are the four most common trauma responses when the amygdala is activated.
What are Fight, Flight, Freeze and Fawn?
In Step 9, we make these to people we have harmed.
What are amends?
This is what HALT stands for.
What is Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired?
This drug crisis exploded during the 1980s.
What is crack?
Often more present at meetings than the people.
What is coffee?
After struggling for years with his mental health, this famous Dutch painter cut off his own ear.
Who is Vincent Van Gogh?
The result of working all 12 steps, according to Step 12.
What is a spiritual awakening?
This pen-and-paper practice can help shift your mindset when you're in a funk, and is also a good practice as soon as you wake up.
What is a gratitude list?
After sustained substance abuse, this phenomena may occur once you have been sober for a while.
What is PAWS (Post Acute Withdrawal Symptoms)?
The classic thought during/before your first meeting.
What is 'Do I have to share?'