Meditation, mindfulness, exercise, therapy, calling a sober friend, and thinking of consequences are all examples of this useful tool in recovery.
What is a coping skill?
This emotion focuses one on mastery and control
What is Anger
this negative self-talk has characteristics involved in anticipating the worst case scenario
What is 'The Worrier'
this coping skill helps one diffuse from unwanted thoughts and focuses on resiliency
What is the three D's; Distract, distance and dispute
This is the C in ACT therapy
What is committed action
This emotion focuses us on hiding transgressions and, if these are already in the public, engaging in appeasement-related behaviors.
What is Shame
This type of negative self-talk has characteristics that tells you that you are not making progress or that the road is too long or steep for you to have a real chance at recovering
What is 'The Victim'
These are said to be the three ingrediencies to Shame
The three S's; Secrecy, silence and self-judgement
these are the first and third principles in EFT with the middle principle being emotional expression
What is emotional awareness and reflection
this is the fourth skill in the AA 12 steps
What is moral inventory
This emotion focuses us on what is valued and the pursuit of goals; there is a perceived irrevocable loss
What is sadness
this negative self talk has the characteristic of jumping on mistakes you made in the past and reminds you that you are a failure
What is 'the critic'
this core skills involve mental processes that are good for reinforcing behaviors and has the acronym S.I.P.
What are social incentives, Immediate rewards and progress monitoring
this is one of six principles in ACT that is known as an over arching goal and is loosely motiving due to environmental demands, constraints and resources (daily double)
What are values
This individual would, or might, become aware of the early warning signs to a lapse or relapse
What is a sponsor or 'sober buddy'
This emotion focuses us on continuing activities that enhance pleasure and personal and social value.
What is happiness
this internal self talk convinces you that your self-worth is dependent on externals
What is 'the perfectionist'
These are coping potentials, or forms of coping, that are said to particularly work well with fear and anxiety and have the acronym P.P.R.
What is preventive, Proactive and Reactive forms of coping
in ACT this is formed after repeated committed actions and awareness of self; known as S____-as-C_____ and involves a separation from content and context of past actions which one learns to accept
What is Self-as-context
Negative emotions are thought to focus attention and awareness while posit emotions are thought to do this to ones awareness
What is broaden
This type of approach in countering negative self-talk involves looking at the whole picture, asking is this "always true" and has this been true in the past; named after a famous philosopher whose name starts with an 'S' and is known as the ________________ approach which exposes a negative argument to rational investigation (daily triple)
What is the Socratic Approach
These three coping principles are under the theory of self-determination; known as the three C's
What is Control, Competence and Connection
This is the last principle in EFT and shares a relation with DBT involving many different daily behaviors one can do and a plethora of skills
What is emotional regulation