Recovery Skills and Activities
The term that means taking care of yourself so that you can be healthy, feel centered, and support your recovery.
What is self-care?
Which step asks you to make a searching and fearless moral inventory of your past?
What is step four?
P.A.W.S. stands for...
What is Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome?
Name the fifth of the 5 stages of change
What is Maintenance Stage
People, places, and things can be...
What are triggers?
A selection of helpful _________ exercises that may help to keep your mind and body connection when confronted by flashbacks or intense memories.
What is grounding?
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
What is the serenity prayer?
Just as drugs produce intense euphoria, they also produce much larger surges of __________, powerfully reinforcing the connection between consumption of the drug, the resulting pleasure, and all the external cues linked to the experience.
What is dopamine?
Large surges of dopamine “teach” the brain to seek drugs at the expense of other, healthier goals and activities.
"I know I should eat healthier, but I sure do love fried chicken. Want a piece with me? is a person in what stage of change
What is precontemplation
triggers can potentially lead to __________.
What are cravings?
What are 3 benefits of having healthy coping skills for recovery?
Open ended: Examples - What is improved mental health, increased self-esteem, managing triggers and cravings.
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs is step...
What is step five?
the inability to think clearly, memory problems, emotional overreaction or numbness, sleep problems, physical coordination problems and stress sensitivity are examples of symptoms of __________.
What is withdrawal?
"I have researched the gyms in my area regarding hours to fit my schedule and pricing" this person is in what stage of change
What is Preparation Stage
After just one use, this drug can be seen in the brain and in toxicology screens for three to six weeks.
What is Marijuana?
What small things, if practiced daily, can create new pathways in the brain to support you to handle future crises in a healthy way.?
What are coping skills?
NA's basic text was published during this decade
What are the 80's
The metabolic process by which the toxic qualities of a poison or toxin are reduced by the body. Pertaining to addiction it is generally a medically supervised treatment for alcohol or drug addiction designed to purge the body of intoxicating or addictive substances
What is detox/withdrawal management treatment?
"I have started going to a gym, have an appointment with a nutritionist and found a workout buddy to meet 3 times a week at 5 pm" This person is in what stage of Change
What is Action Stage
When mixed with alcohol, this drug creates an abnormally rapid heart rate and amplified impairment of cognitive, psychomotor, and driving performance.
What is Cannabis? (Marijuana) (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
Name 2 of the 4 areas of DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy).
Distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, mindfulness.
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out is step...
What is step 11?
Normal neurobiological event characterized by the need to increase the dose over time to obtain the original effect. A state in which a drug produces a diminishing biological or behavioral response; in other words, higher doses are needed to produce the same effect experienced initially.
What is tolerance?
When someone has a plan to quit, may have "cut down" his/her use, and can see the benefits of quitting, he/she is in the ___________ stage of change.
What is the preparation stage
This substance can cause lowered inhibitions, decreased control over motor skills, and liver failure.
What is alcohol?