Recovery Skills
This skill involves giving someone your full attention, showing understanding, and not interrupting.
What is Active Listenting?
Getting enough of this each night helps your brain process emotions and reduces irritability.
This is the term for someone with their own lived experience who supports other on their wellness journey.
What is a peer recovery specialist?
What does MAT stand for?
What is Medication Assisted Treatment?
What is True?
Drinking enough of this throughout the day helps support energy, concentration, and overall health.
What is water (hydration)?
When you take a few minutes to notice your thoughts, feelings, and surroundings without judgment, you're practicing this.
What is mindfulness?
This mindset means learning from mistakes instead of giving up after setbacks.
What is growth, perseverance, or resilience?
Taking care of your body through movement, nutrition, sleep, and medical care is part of this dimension of wellness.
What is physical wellness?
Instead of focusing on everything that could go wrong, this skill focuses on what you can control.
What is acceptance?
Name 3 medication assisted treatments (MAT)
What is: Methadone, Suboxone, Vivitrol, or Sublocade.
This skill involves saying "no" to unhealthy situations.
What are boundaries?
Learning new skills, reading, solving problems, and staying curious support this type of wellness.
What is intellectual wellness?
What is problem-solving?
This treat is famously craved in early recovery because the brain is looking for a quick source of this common baking ingredient.
What is Sugar?
What is Emotional Regulation?
This skill involves creating healthy routines around sleep, meals, appointments, responsibilities, and personal goals.
What is Structure?
This type of community space brings people together around shared experiences without judgement or hierarchy?
What is an all-recovery meeting?
A brain chemical linked to pleasure; addiction overstimulates and depletes it.
What is Dopamine?