Life Skills
What skills allows you to manage time well?
Scheduling
A "rule" in relationships where your responsibility ends and another person's begins.
Boundary
Represented through the acronym SMART goals, these are the important traits of goals that help someone achieve their goals.
Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Timely
This is an easy and common way to cope with a craving, and involves using sugar and replacing the dopamine that the body is craving from the drug.
What is eating candy.
This is a disorder that is caused by a experiencing or witness someone experiencing harm or threat to their life and causes me stress and anxiety when I am reminded of this memory.
What is PTSD
What tool allows you to manage finances and plan for the future?
Budgeting
This concern can result from saying "no" too much and not letting people in
Isolation
Summarized with the acronym HALT, if one is feeling these emotions one should slow down and wait before engaging in conflict or important decision making
What are Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or Tired
The goal of this exercise is to observe your thoughts without being caught up with them, and it can be done either in silence, while walking, while listening to music, or while listening to someone talk.
What is mindfulness/meditation
This is a process that one goes through after losing someone or something important, and it can trigger depression, anxiety, and isolation and can be a trigger for relapse.
What is grief
These are personal beliefs that guide our decisions
Values
What are the five types of Boundaries?
Physical, Emotional, Material, Sexual, and Intellectual
This is an overdose reversing drug that should be used anytime someone has overdosed.
NARCAN
54321 encourages one to take this action to remind them of the present and bring the future or past when they are anxious
What is grounding
or
5 things you can see, 4 you can feel, 3 you can hear, 2 you can smell, one you can taste.
People, places, and things from one's past use that can lead one to consider using again.
What are triggers
It is important to not only remain abstinent of substance use in recovery but also:
(3 things)
Improve Relationships
Manage Emotions
Take care of Physical Self
____ rather than sympathy, is the ability to understand someone else's perspective and story and step into that perspective with them to help them feel understood and connected.
Empathy
According to NA's triangle of self-obsession, these three emotions are the root of self-obsession.
Bonus of 200 points if you can name their opposite.
Anger, Fear, Resentment.
Love, Faith, Acceptance.
Acting on my _____ instead of my ______ is a way that I can begin to live life in a way that is more meaningful and fulfilling to me.
Values instead of my Fears.
By looking back at my past mistakes, I can guess how my next decision may work through using this coping skill.
What is playing the tape
What are the Eight Dimensions of Wellness?
Physical, Emotional, Social, Spiritual, Occupational, Intellectual, Environmental and Financial
This emotion is more dangerous than obesity, heart disease, and can make pain worse
Lonliness
What are the steps in the decision making process IDEA?
Identify, Discern, Express and Act
This is a group of strategies to help one feel more rested throughout the day. Examples are only using one's bed to sleep, going to bed at the same time every night, limiting caffeine, and staying off one's phone 30 minutes before bed.
Sleep Hygiene
When one has resentments, they often come from these, which are often unrealistic.
What are expectations