Early Recovery
What is a "trigger"?
People, places, objects, feelings, and times that cause craving for substance use.
What is total Abstinence?
The abstention from any and all mind altering substances during the recovery process.
What is "Active Listening"?
The process of using high amounts of attention, comprehension, and recall when listening to someone speaking.
Name three aspects of life that require balance for successful recovery to occur.
Mental, emotional, and physical health along with work, finances, relationships, education.
True or false. There are more people living in California than all of Canada.
True. Canada has a population of 38 million while California has a population of 39 1/2 million.
The Serenity Prayer
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, the wisdom to know the difference."
What is a prevention tool for avoiding Relapse Drift?
Mooring Lines
"A mental state that arises spontaneously rather than through conscious effort and is often accompanied by physiological changes." Which is other wise known as?
Emotion
Explain the difference between morals and values.
Morals are individual and generally agreed upon by everyone (i.e. theft is bad, charity is good). Values are created by a society, culture, or group of people and can be different between each (i.e. multiple generations living in the same house is encouraged)
Name the four states of matter.
Solid, fluid, gas, and plasma.
Differences between internal and external triggers.
Internal include emotions and thoughts while external comes from situations, activities, or settings (including other people).
What does "be smart, not strong" mean in regards to recovery?
Knowing and using avoidance, support, and coping skills to prevent relapse as opposed to using brute force to get through high triggering situations.
The difference between Sympathy and Empathy.
Sympathy is feeling "for" someone and their emotional state while empathy is feeling "with" another person and having close understanding to what their emotional state as you've gone through similiar.
Secondary gains, sunk cost, and bandwagoning are types of what?
Logical Fallacies
What is the largest known living organism on the planet earth?
The Pando Aspen Grove in south-central Utah which is a grove of 47,000 aspen trees sharing the same root system spread out over 106 acres.
The process that leads to relapse.
Trigger, thought, craving, and then use.
What is Relapse Justifications?
Mental excuses that allow an individual in recovery to edge close enough to relapse situations that they can occur.
Thoughts, Feelings, Attitudes and Beliefs are all concepts to be aware of and defined in what format?
Thinking Reports
Rules and expectations that we set with others in order to maintain our individuality, safety, and happiness.
Boundaries
"it's only one color, but not one size, Stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies. Present in sun, but not in rain, Doing no harm, and feeling no pain. What is it?"
A shadow.
What does acronym H.A.L.T. stand for in recovery?
Hungry, Angry, Lonely, and Tired. All things that can cause vulnerabilities for relapse.
Three things to be aware of when anticipating and preventing relapse.
Addictive behavior, addictive thinking, and emotional buildup.
The "Pendleton Model" is a form or style to use in what?
Giving Feedback or Responding to Others.
Define Homeostasis.
The ability and tendency of certain systems to maintain a relatively constant internal state in spite of changes in external conditions; this ability is achieved by the presence of feedback mechanisms which can adjust the state of the system to compensate for changes in the state caused by the external environment. (i.e. balance, stability, or equilibrium)
What is the purpose of life?
The number 42. (but really, its the pursuit of of happiness and fulfillment including not only ourselves but all those around us)