Review of Terms
is a person's internal reaction to those demands.
Stress
How can one become organized according to the session?
Live in balance and manage your time.
Where do you learn to make ice cream?
Sundae school
What kind of support system can you create when reducing relationships struggles?
One that encourages and supports healthy, recovery-oriented activities
Name 1 reason why some people in recovery find it difficult to ask for help?
They may have been hurt or offended or violated the trust of their friends and family members in the past
is an event, person, expectation, law, rule, or request that makes a person react in some way.
Stressor
How Do you define your priorities as learned in the lesson?
List your priorities in two categories, define the obstacles, and find solutions.
Why did the farmer ride his horse into town?
Because it was too heavy to carry
As long as your non-sober friends and associates believe that you're still drinking or doing other drugs they will stay in touch, what should you do?
Tell them clearly that you are no longer drinking alcohol or using other drugs, and that you are no longer interested in being with them if they are.
Name 2 recovery activities
AA and NA meetings
are obstacles that block reaching a goal. may be external, or outside of oneself, such as the loss of a job. can also be internal, such as guilt over spending rent money on drugs.
Frustrations
What are priority 2s?
These are goals, however, that could be postponed until next week without hurting your recovery.
Why was the gossip disliked at the coffee shop?
She always spilled the tea
In early recovery, it is often tempting to replace your addiction with what?
Intense emotional or romantic involvement with another person.
Name 3 leisure and exercise activities
Walking
Running
Swimming
are forces (whether internal or external) that drive a person to do something or to do it a certain way.
Pressures
What are priority 1s?
These are goals that cannot be postponed or ignored.
What did the flowers do when the bride walked down the isle?
They rose
It is best not to get overly emotionally involved with people when you are in early recovery, especially...
Hint: answer is numbered 1 and 2
1) If the other person needs serious emotional help
and
2) If it interferes with your recovery
Name 2 recreational activities
Going out for dinner
Watching sports events
occurs when a person has to decide between two or more goals.
A Conflict
How can you reduce relationship struggles according to the lesson?
Work with people, not against them, and accept and ask for support.
Why didn't the lamp sink?
It was too light
In the session under "support and stress in relationships", what are your relationship choices a test of?
Your commitment to your sobriety
Name 3 routine activities
Grocery shopping
Clothes shopping
Running errands