Key Terms
Grounding
Substance Abuse
Believe It or Not
Step It Up
100

Learning how to manage trauma symptoms and how to cope without the use of substances.

A. Seeking Safety
B. Searching for Wellness
C. Hunting for Security
D. Finding Nemo

What is "seeking safety?"

100

This form of grounding means "to focus your mind."

A. Mental grounding
B. Physical grounding
C. Soothing grounding
D. Landing a plane

What is "mental grounding?"

Examples: Playing a category game, imagining, counting to 10, saying the alphabet, describing an activity in great detail.

100

This is a typical indicator that substance use has become problematic.

A. You're able to quit when you want to quit using.
B. Your substance use interferes with other responsibilities.
C. You don't spend any time using.

What is "use that interferes with other responsibilities?

100

______ is not sufficient to overcome alcoholism or addiction.

What is "willpower"

100

This step involves asking a higher power to remove short-comings

What is step 7? "Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings"

200

A pattern of harmful use of drugs and alcohol that impacts one's ability to stay safe.

A. Recreational Drinking
B. Legal Use of Substances
C. Substance Abuse
D. Substance Misuse

What is "substance abuse?"

200

This form of grounding means "focusing your senses."

A. Mental grounding
B. Physical grounding
C. Soothing grounding
D. Landing a jet

What is "physical grounding?" 

Examples: running water over your hands, digging your heels into the floor, jumping up and down, stretching, noticing your body.

200

The best way to stop using substances. 

A. Cold turkey / giving everything up all at once
B. Warm turkey / giving everything up for x amount of weeks
C. Harm reduction / cutting down gradually
D. There is no "best way" to stop using.

D

200

What is viewed as the only viable alternative for the addict or alcoholic?

What is "life long abstinence"

200

In this step, my list looked like this.... · Wanting things my way · Wanting special treatment · Wanting others to meet my needs

What is step 4? Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

300

A response in which one can experience trauma flashbacks, negative emotional states, nightmares, and hypervigilance.

A. Adjustment Disorder
B. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
C. Acute Stress Disorder
D. Reactive Attachment Disorder

What is "posttraumatic stress disorder" or PTSD?

300

This form of grounding means "talking to yourself in a very kind way."

A. Mental grounding
B. Physical grounding
C. Soothing grounding
D. Landing a rocket

What is "soothing grounding?" 

Examples: Say kind things, think of favorites, remember a safe place, say a coping statement.

300

What does the journey of recovery look like over time. 

A. A hill
B. The ocean
C. A mountain
D. Quicksand

What is "a mountain?"

300

12 step groups believe that alcohol and addiction are considered a ______.

What is "chronic disease"

300

I knew that my higher power could help me feel sane again.

What is step 2? "Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity"

400

A term for healthy detachment or distraction techniques.

A. Doing absolutely nothing
B. Mindfulness meditation
C. Grounding
D. Relaxation techniques

What is "grounding?"

400

This is where your focus should be when you are practicing grounding.

A. In the past
B. In the present
C. In the future
D. The goal is to not pay any attention at all

What is "in the present?"

400
These are meetings that are available within the community for those who struggle with addiction.


A. Self-help groups
B. Church sermons
C. A college course
D. A block party

What are "self help groups?"

400

Abstinence is not enough...the Twelve Steps also help you work on these personal flaws.

What are character defects?

400

In this step my list looked like this.... My Mom because I took money from her, My friend because I lied to her about everything, My boss because I didn't show up for the big presentation.

What is Step 8? "Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all "

500

A stimulus that prompts the recollection of a previously traumatic incident, or a stimulus that prompts a type of substance craving.

A. Enkindling
B. Sudden Prompt
C. Intrusive Memory
D. Trigger

What is a "trigger?"

500

Grounding is a highly active strategy that works via _______ and connection to the ______  world.

Bonus Question for 100 points: Name at least three grounding techniques.

What is "distraction; external".

Examples: Counting to 10, run cool or warm water over your hands, say kind statements, play a "categories" game with yourself


500

The answer to all of our problems (Big Book p. 417).

What is ACCEPTANCE?

500

What are the three legacies of AA?

What is "recovery, unity and service"

500

It's OK to say "I am wrong"

What is Step 7? "Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it"

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