Emotions
This emotion can motivate us to push for changes in the world or to help others who are being treated badly
What is anger?
A close attachment formed between a perpetrator of abuse and the person they perpetrate against.
What is a Trauma Bond?
Without this it can be easy to fall back into old habits and a dysfunctional lifestyle.
What are routines?
This is also known as black-and-white thinking or polarized thinking
What is all or nothing thinking?
Who founded Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935
Who is Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith?
Establishing this in life in recovery usually involves a bit of patience.
What is joy?
Channels negative emotions into actions with complex trauma
What is constructive anger?
This is important to achieve with a routine.
What is balance?
This happens when you make a rule after a single event or a series of coincidences
What is overgeneralization?
What step do we “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol- that our lives had become unmanageable.”
What is step 1
The ability to cope no matter what is happening in life.
What is emotional sobriety?
When faced with extreme threat, people often respond with this
What is anger?
The act of living life on life's terms.
What is patience?
This is the opposite of overgeneralization, but with the same negative outcome.
What is a mental filter?
One way you interpret and react to a situation can depend on lots of factors in your life, including:
your childhood and upbringing
past experiences
current circumstances.
An emotional pain that usually has a clear cause, such as losing a loved one, a failure at something important, or an unsuccessful goal.
What is sadness?
This can arise in any situation where you feel an ongoing sense of fear, horror, helplessness, or powerlessness over an extended period of time, with the perceived or actual inability to escape.
What is complex trauma?
This describes a stage of early addiction recovery that involves feelings of euphoria and elation.
What is the Pink Cloud?
A cognitive distortion that involves ignoring or invalidating good things that have happened to you.
What is discounting the positive?
A cognitive distortion that involves making a judgment about yourself or someone else as a person, rather than seeing the behavior as something the person did that doesn't define them as an individual.
What is Labeling?
This often involves both physical and emotional symptoms.
What is fear?
Trauma Bonding is also called this
What is Stockholm Syndrome?
A conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person or group who has harmed you
What is forgiveness?
This is exaggerating the importance of shortcomings and problems while minimizing the importance of desirable qualities.
What is magnification?
Positive phrases or statements used to challenge negative or unhelpful thoughts.
What are positive affirmations?