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life is 10% what happens to us and 90% our _______ attitude towards it
What are expectations?
If I can't get it right than there is no point in trying. If I'm not perfect than I am a complete idiot.
What is all or nothing thinking?
A person attending a meeting for the first time is known as this.
What is a newcomer?
This is the first agreement of the four agreements
What is to be impeccable with your word
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.
What is the serenity prayer?
This is why pencils have erasers.
What does Kyle say when someone relapses?
This cognitive distortion is associated with having a disproportionately anxious reaction to a life event
What is catastrophizing
This is what happens long before the physical relapse happens
What is the mental relapse
When we do this this we become sick due to our own self importance
What is taking things personally
This step is the freedom step and should be completed if doing so injures self or others
What is step 9
Social drinkers, hard users, addicts/alcoholics
What are the three types of users?
"It's obvious no one likes me, I can tell by the way every one is acting"
What is mindreading?
We must set boundaries with these three things in order to protect our recovery.
What are people, places and things
What is the Toltecs
We admitted we were _______ over our addiction/alcohol and that our lives had become ___________
What is powerless and unmanageable?
Premeditated resentments
What is are expectations?
Experiencing one event and determining it to be the way it always is
What is overgeneralizing
When we set boundaries with people we do not want to let down we do this.
What is choosing guilt over resentment
The fourth agreement, which is always do your best, silences the part of a person's brain. This part of brain exists due to the domestication of the planet.
What is the judge
We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to this state of mind.
What is sanity.....and the step is step 2.
Life is lived forward, understood backward and experienced in the moment.
What is the psychology of life?
Limiting ones self to a single word, idea, or concept.
What is labeling
We do this when we have thoughts of acting out or strong urges to use (positive/solution action)
What is call sponsor or person in recovery immediately
When a thousand parts of the mind are all speaking at once. It happens when we do not abide by the four agreements.
What is the mitote?
This the main spiritual principle of the first step
What is surrender?