Positive Attitudes
Taking ownership of your behavior. Taking the right action at the right time.
What is responsibility?
Exaggerating your feelings/situations by using a broad statement. Using terms like "always" and "never."
What is absolutes?
Making assumptions without knowing or considering all the information.
What are statements of fact?
Viewing the world around you as existing for your personal benefits. Confusing your wants and wishes with needs.
What is entitlement?
Assertive and passive-aggressive.
What are communication styles?
Considering ideas and opinions that may be different from yours.
What is open-mindedness?
Thinking you are unable to tolerate uncomfortable situations.
What is I can't?
Using harsh terms as a way to express your intolerance of others.
What are loaded words?
Focused on gaining control over others and the world around them.
What is power orientation?
Dominator and Neglector.
What are unhealthy relationship roles?
Recognizing that no one's views, beliefs, customs or talents are beneath you. Knowing you don't have all the answers and not gloating when you do know the answer.
What is humility?
Focusing on the negative parts of a situation while overlooking the positive parts.
What is awfulizing?
Holding others responsible for your own feelings, behaviors, and events in your life.
What is blaming?
Excusing the harm you have caused others by saying/doing things in an effort to feel better about yourself.
What is sentimentality?
Having meaning/purpose, eating healthy, and getting adequate sleep.
What is a balanced lifestyle?
Being mentally prepared and ready to do something. Stepping outside your comfort zone and pursuing healthy opportunities even if you feel unsure.
What is willingness?
Asking questions without expecting an answer in an attempt to get your way or try to make others uncomfortable.
What are rhetorical questions?
Excusing and justifying your criminal behavior by placing the responsibility of your actions on the situations in their lives.
What is mollification?
Easily distracted and have a difficult time being consistent.
What is discontinuity?
Identifying an activating event, beliefs, and consequences. Involves a camera check.
What is a Rational Self-Analysis (RSA)?
Being factual, impartial, and lacking prejudice.
What is objectivity?
Insisting things had to be a certain way when in reality it was a want or wish.
What are demands?
Using substances to rid yourself of worry and fear about the consequences of your actions.
Looking for the easiest shortcuts instead of working toward specific and realistic goals.
What is cognitive indolence?
Journaling, meditating, and/or attending an AA/NA meeting.
What are healthy coping skills?