12 Steps
an experienced member who acts as a mentor and guide, helping a newer member navigate the 12-step program and their recovery journey.
a broad concept encompassing a sense of connection to something larger than oneself, often involving a search for meaning and purpose in life, and can include religious or non-religious practices.
Spirituality
Some sort of internal or external stimulus that causes the former addict to desire to use drugs or alcohol again.
Trigger
Going to a bar, going around old people/places/things, parties, or showing your old drug dealer that your clean now... are all examples of what?
High risk situations for relapse.
She began her career as a child star with Disney. She’s had problems with alcohol and drugs since early in her career, and was in and out of treatment between 2010 and 2012. She relapsed on fentanyl-laced heroin after six years of recovery in 2018, which caused three strokes and a heart attack.
Demi Lovato
They say, "We keep what we have by giving it away." What are we doing?
Service Work
It's a mental exercise where you imagine the potential negative outcomes of engaging in a behavior you're trying to avoid, like using drugs or alcohol.
Playing the tape through
the natural, often painful, reaction to a major loss.
Grief
What does HALT stand for?
Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired
Alcohol
Recite NA (Narcotics Anonymous) third step prayer.
Take my will and my life, guide me in my recovery, show me how to live.
This often includes learning how to care for yourself physically and mentally, staying in touch with friends and family or creating new connections and support systems.
Self-Care
a common mental health condition characterized by persistent feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and loss of interest in activities.
Depression
Doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results.
Insanity
The most famous and successful horror author in history has been in recovery for 33 years. King, whose books and movies have scared the pants off of audiences for decades, reports heavy drug and alcohol use in the 1970s. His family staged an intervention, and he’s been in recovery since.
Stephan King
Six months clean
It takes you through the five senses to focus on the moment and avoid thoughts of using alcohol or other drugs, anxiety, negative self-talk, and any other unhealthy thought or feeling that may lead someone to want to use to escape.
Grounding Techniques
We are only as sick as our.......
Secrets
Three things that help alleviate anxiety.
Exercise, yoga, deep breathing, meditation, and talking to someone.
High levels of this chemical in the brain can cause, euphoria, increased motivation, addiction, and impulsivity.
Dopamine
..."Ever reminding us to place ....... before ......"
Principles before personalities
What is defined as taking it moment by moment or refers to staying in the present.
Mindfulness
Physical discomfort, distressing, unpleasant sensory and emotional experience.
Pain
Refusing to admit your addiction and its consequences.
Denial
Known as the “nice judge” on American Idol, and before that as a pop star and influential choreographer. ----developed an addiction to opioid pain relievers as a result of a back injury and several surgeries. She entered treatment for opioid use around 2008, and has been in recovery since.
Paula Abdul