Stages of Change
Early Recovery Roadmap
Challenges in Early Recovery
Prepping for Recovery
Acceptance
100
The stage in which you are modifying your behavior.
What is Action?
100
Difficulty sleeping, irritability, cravings, low energy, nausea, shakiness, and difficulty concentrating are symptoms in which stage.
What is the Withdrawal Stage?
100
Assuming responsibility for your life while accepting your personal and social limitations, needs, and abilities. (Hint: Step 1)
What is Accepting Your Powerlessness?
100
Talking to people and asking for numbers at meetings.
What is Building a Support Group?
100
Accept that things are not working and ___ ___ _____.
What is Set New Goals?
200
You are aware that there is a problem and are weighing the pros and cons of changing this behavior.
What is Contemplation?
200
The stage in which you hit a wall but if you are able to remain abstinent, the feelings will pass.
What is Protracted Abstinence?
200
In order to maintain abstinence, you need to start by overcoming these two barriers.
What are Resistance to Change and Grief?
200
HALT stands for...
What is Hungry, Angry, Lonely and Tired?
200
Part of the acceptance process that helps us to prepare for difficult situations.
What is Learning New Coping Skills?
300
You do not think you have a problem.
What is Pre-Contemplation?
300
Developing a life that has fulfilling activities that support continued recovery.
What is Readjustment?
300
Hiking, sports, fishing, drawing, reading, gardening, listening to music, spending time with friends and family are all examples of ...
What is Finding New Highs?
300
An important step in creating more structure in your recovery.
What is Creating a Schedule and Sticking to it?
300
Accepting that you can not change the things that have already happened.
What is Letting go of the Past?
400
The stage in which you are living a new way of life.
What is Maintenance?
400
True or False: The stages in early recovery will vary from person to person.
What is True?
400
What you need to learn to prevent giving into urges and cravings to use.
What are Coping Skills?
400
Name at least 2 things you should clean up when you stop using to assist in preventing relapse.
What is your phone, your facebook (social media), your house for paraphernalia.
400
When we are no longer about to change a situation, we are challenged to __________ ___________.
What is Change Ourselves?
500
In this stage, you have made a decision to change your behavior and are taking the initial steps to do so.
What is Preparation?
500
The pink cloud or honeymoon stage.
What is Early Abstinence?
500
Exposing all of the messages and secrets, correct them to correspond with reality, and utilize them constructively during recovery.
What is Changing Identity Messages?
500
Seeing old people places and things, feeling negative emotions, loss, happiness...etc.
What are Triggers?
500
Our lives can feel purposeless, unfair, and ruthless if these are unrealistic and it is important to keep them low and reasonable.
What are Expectations?
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