Healthy vs. Unhealthy
This type of person has healthy boundaries and can receive criticism without believing it defines who they are.
What is a healthy individual?
Boundaries protect this important part of who you are.
What is your core (or sense of self)?
Healthy partners communicate in this way.
What is openly?
People in unhealthy relationships often want the relationship to move too ________.
What is fast?
Relationships can either support recovery or lead back to this.
What is relapse?
This type of person often takes criticism as proof that they are a bad person.
What is an unhealthy (co-dependent) person?
People with weak boundaries often do this with other people's opinions.
What is take them personally?
Healthy partners respect each other's ________.
What are boundaries?
This unhealthy behavior involves trying to control another person.
What is manipulation?
Why are new relationships often discouraged during early recovery?
Because recovery is emotionally vulnerable, and unhealthy relationships can increase relapse risk.
Healthy people can usually do this even when they disagree with someone.
What is agree to disagree?
True or False:
Healthy boundaries mean shutting everyone out.
False.
Instead of competing with each other, healthy couples practice this.
What is cooperation?
True or False:
Needing to spend every minute together is usually a healthy sign.
False.
When someone depends on another person to feel okay about themselves, the relationship has become this.
What is their Higher Power (or their identity)?
Healthy relationships are built on these two things instead of manipulation and control.
What are trust and open communication?
This happens when someone else's opinion becomes more important than your own values?
Your boundaries become weaker.
Healthy people are able to do this after conflict instead of holding grudges forever.
What is let go of the past?
Instead of communicating honestly, unhealthy partners often do this.
What is criticize, manipulate, or avoid communication?
Relationship conflict → __________ → Trigger → Possible relapse
What is emotional reaction?
"I made a mistake" does this while "I am a mistake" does that
"I made a mistake" recognizes behavior can change, while "I am a mistake" attacks a person's identity.
These are examples of of a healthy boundary in recovery.
Examples:
Name 3 characteristics of a healthy relationship.
Examples:
Name 3 warning signs of an unhealthy relationship.
Example:
Explain how an unhealthy relationship could lead someone back to substance use.
An unhealthy relationship creates stress, rejection, loneliness, anger, or low self-worth. These emotions can become triggers