Anger Management
This emotion often shows up when a person feels disrespected, hurt, threatened, embarrassed, or out of control.
What is anger?
These are people, places, emotions, thoughts, or situations that increase the risk of returning to substance use or unhealthy behavior.
What are triggers?
These are healthy actions people use to manage stress, cravings, anger, anxiety, sadness, or uncomfortable emotions.
What are coping skills?
Thinking about using or romanticizing past use
👉 What is craving (or obsession)?
This step involves admitting powerlessness over alcohol
👉 What is Step 1?
These are physical warning signs of anger, such as clenched fists, tight chest, racing heart, sweating, or raised voice.
What are anger cues or body warning signs?
This is a written plan that helps a person know what to do when cravings, high-risk situations, or warning signs show up.
What is a relapse prevention plan?
The second step: identifying your emotional experience
👉 What is feeling?
Planning or justifying use is part of this stage
👉 What is mental relapse?
Becoming ready to have defects removed
👉 What is Step 6?
This skill involves stopping before reacting so a person can think through consequences instead of acting impulsively.
What is pausing before responding?
These are early signs that someone may be drifting from recovery, such as isolating, skipping meetings, lying, romanticizing use, or stopping healthy routines.
What are relapse warning signs?
This coping skill involves paying attention to the present moment without judging thoughts or feelings.
What is mindfulness?
Reaching out to support instead of isolating is this
👉 What is connection (or using support system)?
This chapter is often read first and outlines the solution
👉 What is “There Is a Solution”?
This communication style allows a person to express needs clearly without being aggressive, passive, or disrespectful.
What is assertive communication?
This is the stage of relapse where a person is not actively planning to use, but they are bottling emotions, isolating, or neglecting self-care.
What is emotional relapse?
This technique helps calm the nervous system by slowing down breathing, such as inhaling for four counts and exhaling slowly.
What is deep breathing or controlled breathing?
The act of using substances
👉 What is physical relapse?
This chapter explains the mental obsession and physical allergy
👉 What is “The Doctor’s Opinion”?
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Who is Maria
This is the ability to recognize emotions, slow down reactions, use healthy coping skills, and make choices that support recovery instead of relapse.
What is emotional regulation?
These coping skills may feel good short-term but create long-term problems, such as using substances, lashing out, avoidance, self-sabotage, or isolation.
What are unhealthy coping mechanisms?
Replacing negative thoughts with realistic ones is this
👉 What is cognitive restructuring?
This term describes the uncontrollable urge to drink once started
👉 What is the physical allergy?