Prevention Strategies
This term means shifting your focus on something else in order to pay less attention to a certain situation.
What is distraction?
This is a term meaning "an inability to acknowledge reality."
What is denial?
This stinking thinking is characterized by being demanding stubborn, self-centered, rigid, and argumentative.
What is defiance?
If you are in recovery from alcohol use, it is probably smart to stay away from this type of beverage serving establishment.
What are bars?
What is harder to catch the faster you run?
What is your breath?
This usually involves rhythmic inhalation and exhalation that can lower feelings of worry and anxiety.
What is deep breathing?
This is a defense mechanism that attempts to excuse behaviors by pronouncing them free of guilt and blame.
What is justification?
This stinking thinking is characterized by being irresponsible, lazy, passive, unreliable, and impulsive.
What is corner-cutting/excuse-making?
It is said that if you stay in a barbershop long enough, you're bound to get this.
What is a haircut?
I'm tall when I'm young and I'm short when I'm old.
What is a candle?
This strategy involves putting off impulsive behaviors for a defined period of time.
What is delaying?
This is an attempt to excuse behaviors by using big words and a superior attitude.
What is intellectualization?
This stinking thinking is characterized by being egotistical, arrogant, loud-mouthed.
What is grandiosity?
These 'nouns' can really wreak havoc on an otherwise strong program of recovery.
What are people, places, and things?
Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on Earth?
What is Mount Everest?
You can go to these to be around people who share a similar interest and desire for recovery.
What are 12-step meetings?
This involves putting your own insecurities, feelings, and behaviors on someone else.
What is projection?
This stinking thinking is characterized by being deceitful, hypocritical, all talk, and false.
What is lip service?
You may realize that you are doing this when you see that you're spending a lot of time alone and getting "stuck in your own head."
What is isolating?
What two words contain the most letters?
What is post office?
Some people recommend placing your shoes under your bed so that when you wake in the morning you remember to do this.
What is meditation?
This is when you redirect your feelings to another target.
What is displacement?
What is necessary to stop stinking thinking?
What is a positive attitude?
This is a colloquial term for the back row of 12-step meetings (ie. Denial Aisle).
What is relapse row?
What goes up and never comes down?
What is your age?