Coping Skills
This coping skill involves slowing your breath to calm your nervous system.
What is deep breathing?
Something that causes an emotional or behavioral reaction connected to past use.
What is a trigger?
Person tending to your daily needs while in patient at VBHCS
client assistant/Tech
Rapid heartbeat, sweating, and racing thoughts are symptoms of this.
What is anxiety?
Taking responsibility for your actions without blaming others.
What is accountability?
This grounding technique uses your five senses to bring you into the present
What is the 5-4-3-2-1 technique?
Most cravings peak and pass within this amount of time if not acted on.
What is about 20–30 minutes?
Location of VBHCS
Murfreesboro TN
Persistent sadness, low energy, and loss of interest describe this condition.
What is depression?
This recovery phrase means focusing only on staying sober today.
What is one day at a time?
This coping skill involves writing your thoughts and feelings down.
What is journaling?
HALT stands for these four states that increase relapse risk.
What are Hungry, Angry, Lonely, and Tired?
Medical person giving meds
the nurse
The ability to manage and control emotional reactions is called this.
What is emotional regulation?
This means being truthful even when it is uncomfortable.
What is honesty?
This healthy coping strategy involves moving your body to reduce stress.
What is exercise?
This strategy involves delaying the urge and distracting yourself.
What is urge surfing or delay and distract?
Person that helps with DC and aftercare for Clts
BHL (Behavioral Health Liaison)
Lack of this basic need can increase irritability, anxiety, and cravings.
What is sleep?
This phrase reminds us that improvement matters more than being perfect.
What is progress, not perfection?
This is the difference between reacting emotionally and making a thoughtful choice.
What is responding instead of reacting?
This type of trigger comes from emotions rather than people or places.
What is an internal trigger?
Programs offered at VBHCS
detox and CSU and OP services
This involves challenging negative thoughts and replacing them with balanced ones.
What is cognitive restructuring (or reframing)?
This recovery support person has lived experience and guides others.
What is a sponsor (or peer support)?