12 Steps
Step 1 involves admitting ____ and _____.
Powerlessness
Unmanageability
Don’t quit before the _____ happens.
Miracle
What is the difference between guilt and shame?
Guilt is about an action or behavior
Shame is when we apply it to ourselves
What are the 3 readings, in order, during an AA meeting?
Preamble
How it Works
The Promises
The opposite of addiction is not sobriety, it is _______.
Connection
In Step 2, what did we come to believe?
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Look for the _____ rather than the differences.
Similarities
What does SMART stand for in SMART Goals?
Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Realistic
Time bound
Those who do not recover are people who _____ or _____ completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being ____ with themselves.
Cannot
Will not
Honest
A specific meeting that a member attends regularly and designates as their "official" or primary place of support and service. It is where members build consistent, lasting relationships (a "recovery family") and accept service responsibilities to support the group and the wider AA fellowship
Home Group
Step 5 states we admitted to ____, _____, and ____ _____ _____ the exact nature of our wrongs.
God
Ourselves
Another human being
____ is like drinking poison and expecting someone else to die.
Resentment
What does SMART stand for in SMART Recovery?
Self Management and Recovery Training
What NA reading is this from?
Our whole life and thinking was centered in drugs in one form or another—the getting and using and finding ways and means to get more. We lived to use and used to live. Very simply, an addict is a man or woman whose life is controlled by drugs.
Who Is an Addict?
What year was AA founded?
1935
What is the exception mentioned in Step 9?
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible
except when to do so would injure them or others.
There are 2 days in every week which we have no control over; what are they?
Yesterday
Tomorrow
Define Mindfulness
Involves observing thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations as they occur, without reacting to them automatically, the practice of actively bringing awareness back to the present moment
Tradition 5 states “Each group has but one primary purpose - ____________.”
What is it?
(10 words)
To carry its message to the alcoholic/addict who still suffers.
What year was NA founded?
1953
In Step 11, we are praying to God as we understood him, only for what two things?
*Must have exact wording
Knowledge of his will for us
and
The power to carry that out"If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be _____ before we are ____ through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new _____."
Amazed
Half way
Happiness
What does REM stand for and what happens during the REM stage of sleep?
Rapid Eye Movement
Dreaming
Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic, and our personal adventures before and after make clear 3 pertinent ideas:
A.
B.
C.
A. That we were alcoholic and could not make our own lives.
B. That probably no human power could have relived our alcoholism.
C. That god could and would if he were sought.
Alcohol helps you sleep. True or False and why?
False; you will not get REM sleep needed for brain restoration.