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Methamphetamine significantly impacts this neurotransmitter tied to pleasure and motivation.
What is dopamine?
When emotions feel overwhelming, this technique helps you reconnect with your body.
What is grounding?
Mindfulness focuses on this moment, not the past or future.
What is the present moment?
This stage involves weighing the pros and cons of changing behavior.
What is contemplation?
This term means paying attention to the present moment without judgment.
What is mindfulness?
Explain how isolation can increase relapse risk even when cravings are low.
What is reduced accountability and emotional support?
This is one reason people use grounding during recovery.
What is to manage cravings, anxiety, or stress?
Mindfulness teaches you to notice thoughts instead of doing this to them.
What is reacting or engaging automatically?
A return to old behaviors that can become a learning opportunity.
What is relapse?
What is the fourth "rule of life" involving the people we associate with ?
Be around people who are excited for your positives and challenge you negatives
Chronic substance use can overstimulate this neurotransmitter system, causing the brain to downregulate receptors and making natural rewards—like food, social connection, or hobbies—less pleasurable, which contributes to cravings and relapse
What is the brain’s dopamine reward system?
Name three sense used in grounding.
What is sight, sound, touch, taste, or smell? Double Jeopardy
This body function is commonly used as an anchor in mindfulness practices.
What is breathing?
In this stage, a person is not yet considering change.
What is pre-contemplation?
Mindfulness helps you respond thoughtfully instead of doing this.
What is reacting impulsively?
This evidence-based cognitive-behavioral technique involves recognizing negative thought patterns, challenging distorted thinking, and replacing it with balanced, constructive thoughts to reduce stress and prevent relapse.
What is cognitive restructuring?/CBT
Using the senses helps pull attention out of this.
What are intrusive thoughts or anxiety?
This word describes observing thoughts without labeling them as “good” or “bad.”
What is non-judgment?
This is the action-oriented stage where a person takes concrete steps toward sobriety.
What is the action stage?
What is a natural and easy way to produce serotonin in your body?
Stand like a top lobster
What are emotional states (internal) and people/places/situations (external)?
What is all-or-nothing thinking?
grounding is especially helpful when the body is in this state.
What is fight-or-flight?
Noticing tension in the body can help you identify this before it escalates.
What is stress, anxiety, or emotional activation?
Name 10 things someone can do while in the action stage of their recovery
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Name one internal and one external trigger and explain how each can increase risk for relapse.
What are emotional states (internal) and people/places/situations (external)? ( Double)