Negative Thinking Patterns
Believing you know what someone else is thinking, or why they are doing something, without having enough information.
What is Mind Reading
A state of nonjudgemental awareness of what is happening in the present moment. Including the awareness of ones own thoughts, feelings, and senses.
What is Mindfulness
It takes how many days to form a new habit in the brain?
What is 45 DAYS
A communication style where a person stands up for their own needs, wants, and feelings, but also listens to and respects others and presents a willingness to compromise.
What is Assertive Communication
A goal that is specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time sensitive.
What are SMART Goals
Thinking you know what will happen in the future
What is fortune telling
The breathing skill which involves breathing in for 4 seconds, holding for 4 seconds, and exhale for 6 seconds.
What is Box Breathing
The ability for the brain to adapt and change both in structure and function.
What is neuroplasticity
A communication style where a person expresses that only their own needs, wants, and feelings matter. Tone of voice is heightened and the other person's needs are ignored.
What is Aggressive Communication
This acronym helps us remember the 4 body states that bring us discomfort: Hungry, angry, lonely, tired.
What is HALT
Making a big deal out of something small, or blowing situations out of proportion
What is Catastrophizing
This technique helps us to catch our negative thoughts and change them to a thought that is more realistic.
What is the Three C's : Catch it, Check it, Change it
__________is the pleasure and reward chemical in our brains that plays a major role in substance abuse and addiction
What is Dopamine
This communication style involves indirect communication, backhanded compliments, denial of a problem, and a tone of sarcasm.
What is Passive Aggressive Communication
Which of the 12 steps asks you to make a searching and fearless moral inventory of your past?
What is Step 4
This thinking pattern involves the belief that you are responsible for events that, in reality, are out of your control.
What is Personalization
This technique involves utilizing the five senses (sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell) to come back to the present moment.
What is Grounding
The part of our brains responsible for decision making, processing, thoughts, connections, emotions and planning
What is the Prefrontal Cortex
This communication style involves minimizing ones own experience, deferring to the opinions of others, prioritizes the feelings of others, and apologizes for emotions.
What is Passive Communication
Three spiritual principles in AA 12 steps for improving our lives (H.O.W.)
This thinking pattern presents as when your thoughts are one way or the other, there are no shades of grey.
What is All or nothing thinking / Black and white thinking
Your thoughts have the power to change how you feel. This technique involves creating an image in your mind, or thinking of a place that brings you happiness and joy.
What is Imagery
This part of the brain works with dopamine reward pathways and forming habitual patterns for survival. This part of the brain is directly linked with addiction.
What is the Midbrain
A communication skill that involves repeating back what someone says to you, but in your own words. A skill to help understand the other person and how they feel.
What is Reflection
Statements used to counter negative thoughts and feelings about ourselves.
What are Positive Affirmations