Orientation! Expectations! Rules and Regulations!
Once you leave Detox hall you are welcome to join Maria and the horses at 7:15 as part of this group. They help care for the horses and give a little TLC back to the horses(and donkey) since they provide so much for us.
What is the Barn Crew?
This brain chemical, often associated with pleasure and reward, plays a key role in addiction by reinforcing substance use.
What is dopamine?
This is the strategy you identify and work through with your therapist while you progress through treatment. It is like a battle plan for fighting the war of addiction.
What is my Relapse Prevention Plan?
This Type of Coping Skill Requires you to "Get out of your head and into your body and the world." It includes using your body and senses and consists of things like walking barefoot, doing yoga or squeezing clay.
What is Grounding?
They are the founders of AA.
Bill Wilson
Bob Smith
Here at TRC we recognize that these two groups get jump to the front of the line in the cafeteria. This is two ensure that everyone stays safe and the campus keeps operating in an effective way.
Who are Staff and Detox patients?- Staff need to get back to work/Detox patients are going through a lot.
Over time, people with addiction often need more of the substance to feel the same effects due to this phenomenon, where the brain becomes less responsive to the drug.
What is tolerance?
Changing these three things is sometimes needed in order to prevent a relapse.
(Hint: It's not Lions, Tigers and Bears)
What are People, Places and Things?
This coping skill involves focusing your awareness on the present moment while calmly acknowledging and accepting your feelings and thoughts.
What is mindfulness?
This musician and motivational speaker "only talks to God when he needs a favor" and advocated to congress on the behalf of addicts everywhere.
Who is Jelly Roll?
If you decide to leave our program early by way of this three letter type of discharge then you will need to be patient with completing the paper work for this 72 hour protocol with the same three letters.
What is ATA? Against Treatment Advice
Also: Against Medical Advice is acceptable.
Addiction can impair this area of the brain, which is responsible for decision-making, impulse control, and planning.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
What is one of the most common emotional triggers for relapse that involves holding onto unresolved feelings of wrongdoing?
Resentment
When you're feeling overwhelmed, using this simple breathing technique—inhale for 4 seconds, hold for 4 seconds, and exhale for 4 seconds—can help you regain calm.
What is Box Breathing?
In one of the most unique memoirs of addiction ever published, Nikki Sixx ,from this band, shares mesmerizing diary entries from the year he spiraled out of control in a haze of heroin and cocaine, presented alongside riveting commentary from people who were there at the time, and from Nikki himself.
Who is Mötley Crüe?
Daily Double!!!!! Have to say the exact answer!
How much do you Wager?
Absolutely none of this, It is a behavioral infraction and more importantly it can derail your recovery journey. The "TRC Goggles" can be thick but you are here to drop baggage off not pick it up.
Hint: Leave room for your higher power.
Chronic substance use can disrupt this brain structure, essential for regulating stress and emotional responses.
What is the amygdala?
The longer you are in treatment the higher your chances of long term sobriety. Name this strategy that you should work on with your case manager to find another treatment program after your time with TRC is over.
(Hint: IOP,OP, Sober Living, PHP, ETC.)
What is an After Care Plan?
Daily Double!!!!! Have to say the exact answer!
How much do you Wager?
In todays GO,GO,GO lifestyle; it can be hard to make time for this coping skill. It is great for addressing feelings of guilt and shame. Remember you deserve it!
This song by Uncle Kracker is actually a hidden reflection for his battle with Heroine addiction.
What is Follow Me?
This is the time classes are scheduled to start and this is the time classes end.
9 AM-4:30 PM
Also Sometimes Vets and PHP get out earlier
4:00-4:15
This area of the brain is crucial for learning and memory and is highly impacted by addictive substances, affecting a person’s ability to remember the negative consequences of use.
What is the hippocampus?
This skill involves intentionally replacing negative or irrational thoughts with positive and realistic ones to manage stress and emotions better.
What is cognitive reframing?
Cognitive restructuring, Thought challenging, Reappraisal, Perspective shifting, Cognitive restructuring therapy, Changing thought patterns
The longest tenured resident of this property. He is loved by most.
Who is Bubba? Our beloved Donkey.