Boundaries
What are the three main types of personal boundaries?
What are porous, rigid, and healthy boundaries?
This communication style is direct, respectful, and expresses one’s needs while considering others.
What is Assertive Communication?
This attachment style is marked by comfort with closeness, healthy independence, and trust in relationships.
What is Secure Attachment?
This is one reason why coping skills take time to work and might not feel helpful right away.
What is they require repetition to become habits / the brain needs time to adjust / emotional states take time to shift?
People in recovery are often told to take it “one _____ at a time.”
What is day?
True or False: A healthy boundary means saying “yes” to everything to keep the peace.
What is False?
True or False: Passive communication often leads to resentment because people’s needs go unmet.
What is True?
True or False: Avoidant attachment is marked by a strong desire for closeness and a fear of abandonment.
What is false?
When a coping skill is working, it might look like this.
What is feeling more regulated, being able to think clearly, or not reacting impulsively?
Insight and self-awareness are:
A) Ongoing processes throughout life.
B) Achieved once and never lost.
C) Automatic and effortless.
D) Unnecessary for personal growth.
A) Self-awareness and insight are lifelong practices that deepen over time. They help identify strengths, challenges, and areas for growth, fostering continuous improvement
Which type of boundary might involve oversharing, difficulty saying no, and getting too involved in others’ problems?
What is a porous boundary?
Which communication style includes yelling, blaming, and interrupting others?
What is Aggressive Communication?
A person who values independence to the point of emotional distance may be showing signs of which attachment style?
What is Avoidant Attachment?
This is why practicing coping skills when you're calm is important, not just when you're in crisis.
What is so your brain and body learn the skill ahead of time and can access it more easily under stress?
Why is setting goals important in recovery?
A) It keeps you stuck in the past.
B) It provides direction and motivation for personal growth.
C) It guarantees immediate success.
D) It eliminates the need for support systems.
B) Goals give structure to your recovery journey, keeping you motivated and focused on progress.
Which type of boundary involves avoiding vulnerability, keeping people at a distance, and rarely asking for help?
What is a rigid boundary?
This communication style avoids direct expression and may involve sarcasm or guilt-tripping.
What is Passive-Aggressive Communication?
This attachment style may lead someone to crave closeness but also sabotage it due to mistrust or fear.
What is Disorganized Attachment?
What coping skill is this: Choosing to do the opposite of what your intense emotion urges you to do—like getting out of bed and taking a walk when depression tells you to isolate.
Opposite Action
Who is the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous and one of the primary authors of the Big Book?
Who is Bill Wilson?
What is a sign of a healthy boundary?
What is being able to say no respectfully and communicate your needs clearly?
True or False: Assertive communicators use “you” statements to clearly express their feelings.
What is False?
Morgan has a close friend who often tries to make plans and open up emotionally. But whenever things start to feel too intense or vulnerable, Morgan backs off, stops replying for days, or changes the subject. What attachment style might this behavior suggest?
What is Avoidant Attachment?
On average, it can take this long for a new coping skill to start feeling natural or helpful—especially when practiced consistently, not just during crises.
What is around 8 weeks?
In what year was the first edition of the Big Book published?
What is 1939?