Mindfulness
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?
any internal or external occurrence that activates a craving (obsession, compulsion, physical craving, and drug-seeking behavior).
What is a trigger?
Shifting your attention to the present moment, by bringing your awareness to the here and now.
What is Mindfulness?
Exercise, improved sleep and eating healthy.
What is Physical Self-Care?
Group that uses a Buddhist approach to the 12-steps
What is Dharma Recovery?
Addiction is seen as moral failing and that people have the choice whether or not to use, and that they are choosing to continue their use.
What is the Choice Model.
Defined as separating or distancing oneself from others.
What is Isolation?
they affect ethical behavior of a person or are the basis of their intentional activities?
What are values and beliefs?
Breathing in for 4 seconds, holding for 4, breathing out for 4, and holding for for 4.
What is Square (or Box) Breathing.
What is Hedonic Rehabilitation?
Admitted we were powerless over alcohol, and other substances, that our lives had become unmanageable.
What is the first step of step of AA?
The area of brain the controls pleasure through dopamine, that works on the survival and memory regions of the brain, and are the primary sites where addictive drugs act in the brain.
What is the V.T.A and the Nucleus Accumbens?
Lying to ourselves about an issue of control.
What is Denial?
is any attempt from one partner to another for attention, affirmation, affection, or any other positive connection?
What is a Bid?
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?
Pushing others away or acting in ways that make others want to avoid us.
President during World War I?
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Moving from the primitive brain to the executive, through the use of body based grounding techniques. In order to increase executive functioning and decrease flight or fight activation in the brain.
What is Mind Body Bridging?
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?
A person is no longer able to derive normal pleasure from those things that have been pleasurable in the past.
What is Anhedonia?
Thinking about recovery differently than we did when we entered the process.
What is Change in Attitude?
A metaphor to describe four communication styles that, based on John Gottman research, can spell disaster for a relationship if left unchecked.
What is The Four Horseman?
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?
Is part of the maintenance phase of Recovery Works?
What is Aftercare?
is the first chemical of a pleasurable experience- at the heart of all reinforcing experiences.
What is dopamine?
This is a psychological set up to relapse. Remembering and exaggerating pleasurable memories of past chemical use episodes.
What is Euphoric Recall?
The 13 original colonies?
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvanian, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia.