General Recovery
A person that guides you through the Alcoholics Anonymous 12-step program
What is a sponsor?
The AA step that requires us to admit that we are powerless over alcohol or drugs and that our lives have become unmanageable.
What is step one?
The state of mind that refers to times when you're able to make choices based on your inner wisdom, your emotions, and the facts of the situation.
What is Wise Mind?
This DBT skill allows us to keep pain from becoming suffering by accepting the facts of reality without responding by throwing a tantrum or with willful negligence. In other words, it is what it is.
What is radical acceptance?
The mutual support program for people whose lives have been affected by someone else’s drinking
Al-Anon
A prayer that is a call for peace, strength, and wisdom, and it emphasizes the importance of acceptance and surrender
What is the serenity prayer?
This step involves conducting a searching and fearless moral inventory.
What is step four?
The idea that two opposing things can be true at the same time.
What is a dialectic?
This DBT skill helps cultivate mindfulness by practicing clearing our minds. It can help create mental peace, calm, and reduce anxiety.
What is meditation?
The four modules of DBT
What are mindfulness, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and emotional regulation?
An exercise in loosely examining your actions and behaviors to gain insight into how your addiction has impacted your life and relationships
What is a moral inventory?
This step involves turning our will over to our Higher Power.
What is step three?
What is interpersonal effectiveness?
This DBT distress tolerance skill helps us to distract ourselves during stressful moments.
What is the ACCEPTS skill?
The term for when someone experiences a mental illness and a substance use disorder simultaneously
What is "dual diagnosis"?
"____________ is the number one offender."
What is resentment?
This step involves making a list of those whom we have harmed in our addiction and becoming willing to make amends to them.
What is step eight?
The module of DBT that helps us get through stressful times without making them worse.
What is distress tolerance?
This DBT interpersonal effectiveness skill helps us assertively and peaceably communicate something that we need to someone without starting arguments or creating further problems.
What is the DEAR MAN skill?
The idea that a person trying to build a strong recovery plan should try to have a variety of elements in their recovery maintenance plan.
What does the "slices of cheese" metaphor refer to?
The assumption that people will do, be, or say certain things. "My serenity is inversely proportional to my ________."
What are expectations?
This step asks that we continue to practice the principles of AA and to pass them on to others.
What is step twelve?
The DBT module that helps us decrease susceptibility to emotion mind by becoming more proactive than reactive.
What is emotional regulation?
This emotional regulation skill helps us prevent significant emotional swings by taking care of our physical health.
What is the PLEASE skill?
National Recovery Month
What is September?