Recovery 101
With continued substance abuse the brain will stop producing this brain chemical that enables pleasure.
What is Dopamine?
Sober hobbies, mindfulness, exercise, spending time with a sober friend, and routine self care are all examples of this useful tool in recovery.
What is a Coping Skill?
Three areas of change that can help to address triggers in early recovery.
What are People, Places, and Things?
Definition of Boundaries.
What are limits that protect your well- being and communicate what you will or will not accept?
Over time, people often need higher amounts of a substance to feel the same effect.
What is Tolerance?
The goal of recovery, rather than perfection.
What is progress?
Examples of Grounding Skills.
What are breathing exercises, progressive muscle relaxation, taking a walk, 54321, or safe place?
The opposite of addiction.
What is Connection?
A dysfunctional emotional and behavioral dynamic where one person loses their autonomy, identity, and personal boundaries to obsessively care for, fix, or rescue another person
What is Codependency?
The act of being appreciative of things in your life.
What is Gratitude?
Each year in the United States, nearly 178,000 people die from this substance, making it a top leading preventable cause of death in our country.
Alcohol
This is what H.A.L.T. stands for, a good acronym to keep in mind when determining needs for grounding or coping.
Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired
A personalized, written guide created during addiction recovery to help individuals maintain sobriety, recognize early danger signs, and manage high-risk situations before a return to substance use occurs.
What is a Relapse Prevention Plan?
Turn this into an assertive "I" statement: "You never listen to me and you don't care!"
"I feel dismissed when I'm interrupted, and I need an opportunity to finish what I'm saying."
Accountability.
What is taking responsibility for your choices and actions?
A mindset that might include having a bad day and immediately thinking, 'Well, my whole week is ruined!'
What is All or Nothing Thinking?
A guided reflection to challenge and replace cognitive distortions.
What are Thought Records: Identify the cognitive distortion, how it is effecting you, the facts of the situation, and replacing with a realistic thought.
This recovery concept refers to returning to old thinking patterns or emotional behaviors before a physical relapse occurs.
What is Emotional Relapse?
The difference between helping someone and enabling them.
What is, helping supports healthy change and responsibility; enabling can protect someone from the consequences of harmful behavior or make the behavior easier to continue.
Ambivalence.
What term describes feeling two conflicting things about making a change at the same time?
The difference between abstinence and recovery?
What is, Abstinence means not using substances; Recovery involves making broader behavioral, emotional, relational, and lifestyle changes.
Having several healthy strategies prepared before a stressful situation occurs.
What is having a Safety Plan?
Isolation, romanticizing past substance use, and stopping recovery activities can be examples of these.
What are Warning Signs?
Next steps to take when someone repeatedly continues to cross your boundaries, but promises to change.
What is evaluate the relationship and accept you can't control other people?
A phase at the beginning of recovery where individuals feel euphoric and overly optimistic about recovery, often followed by challenges.
What is the Pink Cloud Effect?