Core Issues
When a person has problems understanding and applying the idea of inherent worth to themselves.
What is self-esteem or self-love?
Abuse or neglect within a family that gets passed down through generations.
What is generational or intergenerational trauma?
Emotion frequently felt by warmth and swelling.
What is love?
A person, place, thing, or event that can result in psychological and physical relapse.
What is trigger?
Assuming you know what others think is called this.
What is mind reading?
This issue deals with people protecting and containing themselves during intimacy.
What are boundary problems?
ACE stands for what.
What are Adverse Childhood Experiences?
Awareness that we should not do or stop doing something that is wrong.
What is guilt?
Recovery is progress, not this.
What is perfection?
Skill that challenges these distortions is called
What is checking the facts?
This type of person has trouble being real and/or sharing the self in a politic manner.
What is reality?
When you use "we had to," or "something made us."
What is blaming?
Uses logic and cause and effect reasoning to guide the individual.
What is reasonable mind?
These are warning signs of addiction. Name 3.
What is
appearing anxious/paranoid,
lack of motivation, space out, periods of instability, moods
swings, unexplained change in
personality, secrets, time gaps
"This is a disaster" is an example of this thinking style.
What is catastrophizing?
An inability to be interdependent.
What are self-care problems?
Refusing to deal with or encounter unpleasant objects or situations
What is avoiding or avoidance?
The result of adequately acknowledging and working through feelings.
What is serenity/peace?
HALT is the acronym for this.
What is hungry, angry, lonely and tired?
Refusing to accept reality or facts.
What is denial?
Focuses on problems with spontaneity.
Explaining an unacceptable behavior or feeling in a rational or logical manner.
What is rationalizing?
Give a reason that it is important to validate the emotions of others.
What is feeling heard/understood/supported, reduce conflict, fosters emotional health, increases bonding?
Actively making changes happens in this stage.
What is action?
Indirect expression of anger to avoid directly dealing with emotions.
What is passive aggressive behavior?