Social Support
This is a type of social support that includes listening to problems and showing empathy
What is emotional support?
This is the underlying principal of the first step.
What is honesty?
The original 12 Step meeting
What is step 1
We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable.
A person who has sustained recovery time and is working on their 12th step.
Who is a sponsor?
These people provide social support
Who are Family, Friends, Groups, or Communities?
This is the principal found in this statement "Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity."
What is hope?
This group describes itself as a "nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem"
What is Narcotics Anonymous?
This is Step 7
We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings
The guidelines for picking a sponsor?
There are no specific rules, but a good sponsor probably should be a year or more away from the last drink, the same gender — and should seem to be enjoying sobriety.
Tangible support. Help with practical problems.
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves requires this principal.
What is courage?
This support group is made up of people working to end patterns of dysfunctional relationships and develop functional and healthy relationships.
Who is Co-Dependents Anonymous?
This is step 8
We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
We are always free to select another sponsor with whom we feel more comfortable, particularly if we believe this member will be more helpful to our growth in A.A.
Can you choose a new sponsor?
Four ways someone can work to build better social supports.
2. Increase community involvement
3. Attend support groups
4. Use professional support
This principal is found in the step that Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
What is Step 5 Integrity?
They are a "worldwide fellowship that offers a program of recovery for the families and friends of alcoholics, whether or not the alcoholic recognizes the existence of a drinking problem or seeks help."
Who is Al-Anon Family Groups
This is step 10
We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
A sponsor does everything possible, within the limits of personal experience and knowledge, to help the newcomer get sober and stay sober through the A.A. program. • Shows by present example and drinking history what A.A. has meant in the sponsor’s life. •
These are three benefits of social supports
What are?
1. Feeling security
2. Improved physical health
3. Greater resilience to stress
4. Improved self-esteem
5. Greater life satisfaction
6. Improved mental well-being
This the principal of step 9
What is Discipline?
As an organization, they have no official stance on the legality of cannabis. However, the organization maintains that its materials are based on personal experiences of its members.
Marijuana Anonymous
Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
This is a benefit you have experienced of sponsorship
(personal example needed for points)