Calming Techniques
A practice used to help quiet the mind and relax the body, by becoming centered in the present moment.
What is Meditation?
A tool that you write in, to decompress from the day and to note what you are grateful for.
What is a Journal.
Started in 1935, this group provides mutual aid and fellowship to individuals in recovery.
What is Alcoholics Anonymous?
A Chronic brain illness marked by compulsive substance use despite negative consequences.
What is Addiction?
A person you can talk to or call when you are triggered, craving or struggling.
What is a sponsor or accountability partner?
You’re escaping a maze, and there are three doors in front of you. The door on the left leads to a pit of lava. The door in the center leads to a room filled with deadly gas. The door on the right leads to a lion that hasn’t eaten in three months. Which door do you choose?
What is the door on the right? A lion that hasn’t eaten in three months would be dead.
An example of this is being aware of and focusing on a sensory experience (taste, touch, smell, sound, sight) as you take each step outside in nature
What is Mindful walking?
Exercise, improved sleep and eating healthy.
What is Physical Self-Care?
Group that uses a Buddhist approach to recovery
What is Refuge Recovery?
The _________ of the body and _________ of the mind
What is Allergy? What is Obession?
Defined as separating or distancing oneself from others.
What is Isolation?
A sundial has the fewest moving parts of any timepiece. Which has the most?
What is an hour glass?
Breathing in for 4 seconds, holding for 4, breathing out for 4, and holding for for 4.
What is Square (or Box) Breathing.
Participating in activities that you enjoy doing without the use of drugs or alcohol.
What is Fun in Sobriety?
Admitted we were powerless over alcohol, and other substances, that our lives had become unmanageable.
What is the first step of step of AA?
Once and alcoholic, _______ ____ ________
What is "always an alcoholic"?
Lying to ourselves about an issue of control.
What is Denial?
Arnold Schwarzenegger has a long one. Michael J. Fox has a short one. Madonna does not use hers. Bill Clinton always uses his. The Pope never uses his. What is it?
What is their surname?
Noticing five things you can see, four things you can hear, three things you can touch, two things that you can smell, one thing that you can taste.
What is the 5,4,3,2,1 technique?
A gathering of like minded individuals with the common goal for recovery.
What is a Recovery Support Group?
Self management and Recovery Training, utilizing CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) techniques to address addiction issues
What is S.M.A.R.T Recovery?
A powerful physical, mental and emotional desire for substances.
What is Craving?
The acronym for GRACE
What is Gratitude, Release, Accept, Challenge, Embrace?
Your parents have six sons including you and each son has one sister. How many people are in the family?
What is Nine—two parents, six sons, and one daughter?
Taking a moment to focus on each body part at a time from your feet to your head
What is Body Scanning?
Limits and rules we set for ourselves within relationships protect ones self.
What are Boundaries?
A fellowship of friends and family of addicts and alcoholics who share experience, strength, and hope to solve their common problems.
What is AlAnon?
Liquor ceased to be a luxury; __ ___________ _ ____________
What is "it became a necessity"?
Thinking about recovery differently, having a change in mindset
What is spiritual experience, spiritual awakening, or psychic change?
What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and water, but no fish?
What is a map?
Is based upon the simple practice of tensing, or tightening, one muscle group at a time followed by a relaxation phase with release of the tension?
What is progressive muscle relaxation?
The meaning of the acronym H.A.L.T?
What is Hungry, Angry, Lonely, and Tired?
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs
What is the 12th Step of Alcoholics Anonymous?
is the first chemical of a pleasurable experience- at the heart of all reinforcing experiences.
What is dopamine?
Five warning signs that I might use
Share 5 warning signs
The person who makes it has no need for it. The person who purchases it does not use it. The person who does use it does not know he or she is. What is it?
What is a coffin?