Recovery
What is the 6th step in the AA 12 steps?
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“We became willing to ask God to help us remove our defects of character.”
What does it mean to be a Dry Drunk?
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Individuals who have stopped consuming alcohol but have not addressed the underlying issues that led to their addiction
This simple mindfulness technique involves focusing on your breath.
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Deep Breathing
This brain chemical is most associated with pleasure, reward, and addiction.
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Dopamine
This term describes the ability to face life on life’s terms with emotional balance and maturity.
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Emotional Sobriety
What are the 6 stages of recovery
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Precomtemplation, Comtemplation, Preparation, Action, Maintainance, Relapse
This three-word phrase means being honest, open, and willing.
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HOW
This term describes when someone uses unhealthy behaviors like isolation or substance use to avoid feelings.
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maladaptive or unhealthy coping skills
This type of therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
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CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
This emotion says “I made a mistake”; this one says “I am a mistake.”
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Guilt and or Shame
Carl Jung believed recovery requires this kind of transformative experience, often spiritual in nature.
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Spiritual Awakening
What is Shawn Quinn's acronym for GOD
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Good Orderly Direction
The opposite of shame, this emotional skill lets you accept your flaws and still believe in your worth.
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Self-Acceptance or Acceptance
This is the term for having both a substance use disorder and a mental health condition at the same time.
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Dual-Diagnosis or Co-occurring disorder
True or False: Emotional sobriety requires the absence of negative emotions like sadness or anger.
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False
This often unconscious belief — “I can control it this time” — is a hallmark of this stage of relapse.
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Mental Relapse
This slogan reminds us not to over-complicate our recovery.
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Keep it simple, stupid
This term refers to the ability to recover from stress and grow stronger through adversity.
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Resilence
This process, which continues long after detox, refers to the brain gradually repairing itself from addiction damage.
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Neuroplasicity
This spiritual principle, often linked to Step 11, promotes humility and inner peace.
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Prayer or Meditation
According to the Big Book, resentment is considered this to recovery.
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The “number one offender” or “the root of all relapse”?
Most meetings open with an excerpt from Chapter 5 (“How It Works”) that contains this very phrase.
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Progress not perfection
The acronym HALT stands for these four triggers
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Hungry, Angry, Lonely, and Tired
This theory, developed by Stephen Porges, explains how the nervous system shifts between states of safety, mobilization, and shutdown.
Hint: Stephanie is a big believer in this theory
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Polyvagal Theory
Bill W. once wrote that this is the “next frontier” in AA.
What is:
Emotional Sobriety