Life/Recovery Values
This value means taking responsibility for your actions or mistakes.
What is Accountability?
This social support is usually made up of blood relatives.
What is Family?
This thinking trap means jumping to the worst conclusions without evidence.
What is catastrophizing?
This is a feeling of fear, dread, and uneasiness, often without cause.
What is anxiety?
This musical artist has albums titled "Recovery" and "Relapse."
Who is Eminem?
This value means seeing something through despite roadblocks or setbacks.
What is Commitment/Perseverance/Determination/?
This social support is usually comprised of people with whom we share a bond and mutual affection, not related by blood.
What are friends?
This thinking trap involves minimizing the impact or importance of parts of a situation.
What is minimization?
This is a mental health disorder often characterized by low moods, isolation, or a loss of interest in activities.
What is depression?
This activity involves physical activity and effort, carried out to maintain or improve physical health and fitness.
What is Exercise?
Find out what this value means to me: This value means having regard for the feelings, wishes, rights, or traditions of others.
What is Respect?
This person can be a mentor or a guide through the steps or in recovery in general.
What is a sponsor?
This thinking trap means assuming you know what other's are thinking without any basis in fact.
What is Mind-Reading?
This mental health issue involves being unable to fall asleep, stay asleep, and is often characterized by extreme sleepiness.
What is Insomnia?
This member of your treatment team can help you dig into past traumas or help you find your way through current issues.
What is a Therapist?
This value involves being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness; doing what's right because you know it's right.
What is Integrity?
This group of people share common lived experiences and are also in recovery.
What are Peers/Support Groups?
This thinking trap involves saying things ALWAYS or NEVER happen, when this is not true.
What is overgeneralization?
This disorder is a serious mental illness that causes unusual shifts in mood, ranging from extreme highs to extreme lows.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
This self care activity involves drowning out the noises of the world by listening to meaningful songs or lyrics.
What is Listening to Music?
This value involves the action of helping or doing work for others, an act of help or aid.
What is Service?
This person can act as a support by providing spiritual guidance or a connection to your higher power.
What is a religious leader? (I'll accept priest, reverend, rabbi, bishop, etc.)
This thinking trap involves identifying with or fusing with a negative belief. "I AM a mistake" vs. I MADE a mistake."
What is cognitive fusion/labeling?
This disorder is characterized by thoughts or experiences that seem out of touch with reality, and is often associated with visual and auditory hallucinations.
What is Schizophrenia?
This stage of change involves doing research and getting ready to make changes.
What is Preparation?