12 Steps
Coping Skills
Healing from Trauma
Recovery Management
Managing Emotions
100

May God grant me the power to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can't, and the wisdom to know the difference.

What is the Serenity Prayer?

100

Skills such as counting, 5-4-3-2-1, or naming Sports teams in your head manage intense emotions and bring yourself back to the present moment.

What are Grounding Skills?

100

A mental health diagnosis characterized by symptoms, such as intrusive thoughts and avoidance, occurring after experiencing or witnessing a life threatening event.

What is PTSD?

100

Anonymous groups that offer support to people recovering from substance use disorders.

What is AA, NA, Recovery Groups?

100

The only person who can make me angry is...

What is Me?

200

Accepting that substance use has made our lives unmanageable.

What is the First Step?

200

Calling a sober friend or attending a meeting.

What is Sober Support?

200

Feeling like a traumatic event is happening again, sometimes while sleeping in the form of night terrors.

What is a flashback?

200

People, places, and things that remind you of past use

What are Triggers?

200

Negative thoughts that we have about ourselves, others, or the world that aren't necessarily true that impact our mood and feelings of self-worth.

What are Cognitive Distortions or Automatic Negative Thoughts?

300

Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

What is the Fourth Step? 

300

Skills include Acceptance, Distress Tolerance, Emotional Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness and was first developed by Marsha Linehan to treatment Borderline Personality Disorder

What is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)?

300

Number one priority when healing from trauma and substance use disorders.

What is Safety?

300

A plan you make ahead of time that identifies potential relapse triggers and coping skills you will use to manage triggers.

What is a Relapse Prevention Plan?

300

Doing something different from how you're currently feeling, ie when sad, watch a funny movie.

What is Opposite Emotion?

400

Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

What is the definition of insanity?

400

A type of therapy that targets changing thinking and behavior patterns.

What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?

400

A type of therapy that combines processing the traumatic event while experiencing bilateral stimulation.

What is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) or Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)?

400

Symptoms such as depression, brain fog, and craving that occur 1 month - 1 year after stopping substance use.

What are Post acute withdrawal syndrome (PAWS)?

400

Coping skills (category) that help us manage intense emotions.

What is Distress Tolerance?

500

Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

What is the Twelfth Step or Service Work?

500

Utilizing both your logic mind with your feeling mind.

What is Wise Mind?

500

A symptom of PTSD - feeling disconnected or separate from oneself. 

What is Dissociation?

500

The use of medication to support recovery, such as methadone, suboxone, naltrexone, or Antabuse.

What is Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)?

500

The acronym HALT stands for...

What is Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired?