AA History
What are the two books to read in AA?
What is the Big Book and 12&12?
Step 1
What is we admitted we were powerless over alcohol- that our lives had become unmanageable?
A line that marks the limits of an area; a dividing line.
What is boundaries?
What are examples of self-care? (list 3 min)
What is showering, eating regular meals, working out, going to the doctors, reading, and taking prescribed meds?
What are 3 situations that could put your sobriety at risk.
What is people, places and things?
How many people wrote the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous?
What is 101?
Every AA group out to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions?
What is Tradition 7?
Reminders that put people in a mental and emotional place of distress, pain, anger, frustration, and other strong emotions
What is a trigger?
What is an example of practicing gratitude?
What is making your bed, eating good food, taking showers, doing laundry, ect.?
___ meetings in ____ days?
What is 90 meetings in 90 days?
What do the three sides of the aa triangle mean?
What is Unity, Recovery, and Service?
How many steps were originally in AA?
What is 6?
Friendly association, especially with people who share one's interests.
What is fellowship?
What does H.O.W stand for?
What is honesty, openmindedness and willingness?
Name at least 2 of the 5 warning signs you are headed for a relapse
1. You stop seeking support.
2. Romanticizing substance use
3. Complicating your life
4. Removing anchors little by little
5. Having a defensive attitude.
Where did AA begin?
What is Akron, Ohio?
What is the only requirement for AA membership according to the 12 traditions?
What is a desire to stop drinking?
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
What is the basic format of a speakers lead when they share?
What is experience, strength and hope? or What it was like, what happened and what its like now?
Name 2 of the 5 common challenges in early recovery?
What is
1. Friends and family who use.
2. Anger, irritablity
3. Substances in the home
4. Boredom and loneliness
5. Special occasions
What year was the book Alcoholics Anonymous published?
What is 1935?
God, I offer myself to Thee – To build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of Life.
What is the 3rd step prayer?
Willingness to tolerate a difficult or unpleasant situation.
What is acceptance?
What is the serenity prayer? (long form)
what is
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; The courage to change the things I can;
And the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardship as the pathway to peace;
Taking as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; That I may be reasonably happy in this life, and supremely happy with Him forever in the next.
Name 4 other 12 step or recovery programs besides AA.
NA,CA, CMA, Refuge Recovery, SMART Recovery, MA, Al Anon, CODA, SLAA, GA, Celebrate Recovery.