Skills to pay the bills
Taking your mind off the problem for a while
What is Distraction?
Coping skills are used to avoid big problems in our lives
What is False?
Coping skills help us work through problems in a healthy way
Meditation and yoga is this type of coping mechanism
What is Mindfulness?
This is an example of the SELF-SOOTHING method
What is any activity that uses one or more of the 5 senses (shower, eat a snack, exercise, etc.)
What do you have to break before you can use it?
What is an egg?
Doing something that is the opposite of your impulse and positive instead of negative
What is Opposite Action?
Coping skills help you focus on important things in your life
What is True?
When we cope with problems and ease or emotions it help us think clearer and tackle them better
Calling your therapist, sponsor, family member or 911 is an example of this coping mechanism.
What is using your Crisis Plan or Sober Support?
This is the difference between a DEFENSE MECHANISM and a COPING MECHANISM
What is the unconscious, automatic response to protect self vs the conscious choice to manage stress or problems in healthy ways? (or something like it)
What starts with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
What is a teapot?
Using tools and techniques to help express your feelings in a different way
What is Emotional Awareness?
Every coping skill is healthy
What is False?
Some ways we learn to cope are not healthy like fighting or using substances
Watching a movie or reading a book is this type of coping mechanism
What is Distraction?
Avoiding the existence of problems or issues, taking out anger on someone unrelated, blocking traumatic memories, or making up reasons that you're right and not wrong and believing it are examples of this
What are DEFENSE MECHANISMS?
What type of building contains the most stories?
What is a library?
Centering and grounding yourself in the present moment
What is Mindfulness?
Coping skills are something everyone is born knowing how to do
What is False?
Coping skills are learned throughout our lives
Journaling, drawing pictures, writing a song, and going to therapy are examples of which coping mechanism?
What is Emotional Awareness?
This is how you tell if a coping skill is NOT healthy
What is, If it does more harm than good?
There are two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What is it?
What is the letter "r" ?
Contacting someone on your list of support when you can't manage what you're going through by yourself
What is Using a Crisis Plan or using your Sober Support?
Coping skills are only used to help you relax
What is False?
Managing stress, anxiety, and depression is not always relaxing it sometimes takes hard work
Taking deep breaths and then walking away instead of fighting is this type of coping skill
What is Anger Management?
This is the difference between SELF CARE and SELF SOOTHING
What is making decisions, setting schedules and saying no to others when you need to versus using your senses to make it through a difficult moment?
What does nobody want, yet nobody wants to lose?