Triggers
Friday night, Friends who use, After work, a bar or club, Money
What are triggers?
Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of the steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
What is step 12?
We admitted that we were powerless over alcohol/ drugs that out lives had become unmanageable
What is step 1?
Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
What is step 8?
You have decided to stop using, bout others in your house may still be using.
What is substance use in the home?
Snapping, Relaxation, Call someone
What is thought stopping?
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
What is step 4?
We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
What is step 3?
Continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
What is step 10?
You want to continue associations with old friends or friend who use.
What is friends and associates who use?
Home alone, friend's home, parties, sporting events, bars/clubs, concerts, friends who use drugs
What are external triggers?
Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
What is step 6?
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
What is step 5?
Warn sponsorees when they get off the past of recovery.
What is a sponsor?
Stopping substance use often means that activities you did for fun and the people with whom you did them must be avoided.
What is boredom, loneliness?
Afraid, frustrated, anger, guilt, happy, criticized, pressured, depressed, insecure, embarrassed, sad
What are internal triggers?
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
What is step 9?
Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
What is step 7?
Women for Sobriety, Jewish Alcoholics, SMART Recovery, Secular Organizations for Sobriety, Community-based spiritual fellowships.
What are alternatives to 12-Step Programs?
Parties, dinners, business meetings, and holidays without substance use can be difficult.
What are special occasions?
12 step, sponsors, Serenity prayer
What are things that can help to prevent relapse?
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
What is step 11?
Came to believe that a Power grater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
What is step 2?
Bill Willis and Dr. Bob
Who are the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)?
Small events can create feelings of anger that seem to preoccupy your thoughts and can lead to relapse.
What is anger and irritability?