Recovery 101
Stop using or drinking.
What is the first step in the recovery process?
These are based on principles like honesty, hope, surrender, courage, and integrity.
What are the 12-steps?
Running into your old drinking/using buddy at the grocery store.
What is person?
Extreme anxiety over a job interview.
I feel like my grandmother spinning a yarn, but it is keeping my hands and mind busy.
What is crocheting or knitting?
A written aftercare plan that will support the maintenance of long-term recovery.
What is a relapse prevention plan?
12-step programs encourage people to surrender to this.
What is a higher power?
It's starting to snow, and you remember snow days were always "drinking days".
What is a thing?
Finding someone's empty baggie in the ladies' restroom at work.
What is an external trigger?
Noisy and hot but I love the fun things they do in between innings...and the hot dogs!
What is a minor league baseball game?
A type of therapy to help the individual change negative thinking patterns learning to recognize one’s distortions in thinking that are creating problems, and then to reevaluate them in light of reality.
Steps 10, 11, and 12 are all about this.
What is maintenance?
Walking to your job and passing the tent city where you used to live.
A co-worker who continues to ask you to go drinking with them.
What is an external trigger?
The best way is to finish the outside first and then fill in the middle.
What is a puzzle?
Specific - Measurable - Attainable - Realistic - Timebound.
What is a SMART goal?
This is contained in the first 164 pages of the Big Book.
What is the basic text of the AA recovery program?
Finally getting back home and going through your clothes you find your "party shirt".
What is a thing?
Smelling cigarette smoke on a co-worker and wanting a cigarette yourself.
What is a sensory trigger?
Why wait for someone's birthday to do this.
What is baking a cake?
12-step group, counselor, mentor, spiritual leader, sponsor, accountability partner, etc.
What is recovery supports?
Begin with step 1 by doing this.
What is stop denying you have a problem?
Family reunion with the booze and weed everywhere.
What are people, places, and things?
Feeling overwhelmed by your recovery, legal, and family obligations.
What are internal triggers?
It's hard to believe that such a simple activity can set those feel-good chemicals in motion. I can do it outside or in-place.
What is walking?