Science & Addiction
Coping Skills
Relapse Prevention
Healthy Relationships
Wild Card
200

Addiction, regardless of the substance, changes the way this organ functions over time

What is the brain?

200

The acronym H.A.L.T. stands for...

What is Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired?

200

Being intentional about taking time to focus on your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual wellbeing

What is self-care?

200

This term refers to the ability to identify, express, and communicate our emotions and the emotions of others

What is emotional literacy?

200

This well-known celebrity talks openly about the ways in which addiction hinders your potential, and talks about learning to have fun in recovery. (Hint: he also talks about the impact of addiction on his family and his girl)

Who is Macklemore?

400

Commonly associated with pleasure and reinforcement, this neurotransmitter is linked to the brain's reward system and is negatively impacted by addiction

What is dopamine?

400

This deep breathing technique helps slow down our heartrate and breathing, allowing us to feel calmer and relieve stress. Also known as square breathing, this technique is known as _________

What is box breathing?

400

The three stages of relapse are...

What is emotional, mental, and physical?

400

In order to have healthy relationships, we must identify emotional, physical, financial, or time limits to protect our wellbeing. These are known as __________

What are boundaries?

400

This chakra controls our ability to communicate, speak our truth, and self-expression

What is the throat chakra?

600

Emotional, physical, behavioral, or cognitive symptoms that may arise during sobriety which can be attributed to the brain and nervous system healing from the damage caused by substance abuse

What is post-acute withdrawal syndrome?

600

This is a technique where we strategically tense and relax muscle groups to aid in grounding

What is progressive muscle relaxation?

600

In order to protect sobriety, we may have to evaluate and change these three aspects of our life

What is people, places, and things?

600

Created by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham, this tool is designed to help people gain more self-awareness and better understand their relationship with themselves and with others

What is Johari's window?

600

This is one of the main nerves in our parasympathetic nervous system, and one of the longest nerves in the body. When we stimulate this nerve, it can aid in emotional regulation.

What is the vagus nerve?

800

This complex area of our brain is associated with impulse control, problem-solving, and decision-making and is negatively impacted by addiction

What is the prefrontal cortex?

800

This technique activates both hemispheres of the brain and helps to engage the prefontal cortex. (Hint: can be done with coloring, music, tapping, etc.)

What is bilateral stimulation?

800

This visualization technique involves you thinking about all the potential circumstances and feelings that would arise if you do give in to your desire to relapse

What is play the tape forward?

800

This communication model teaches us to lead with our most compassionate selves and gives us the opportunity to assertively express our feelings and needs

What is nonviolent communication?

800

In Johari's window, this quadrant describes something that other people notice about you that you don't

What is the blindspot/blind area?

1000

Describe two ways that trauma changes the brain

What is highly sensitive amygdala, shrinks the hippocampus, shrinks the prefrontal cortex, and/or chronic nervous system dysregulation?

1000
This describes our ability to identify repetitive actions that may no longer be serving us that we are reluctant to change because that behavior is still meeting a need/serving a purpose

What is awareness of unhealthy patterns/coping behaviors?

1000

The earlier you can interrupt the neural pathway that ends in using/drinking, the faster you will build the new neural pathway of sobriety and strengthen it. These connections are called ___________

What is dendritic spines/memory bumps?

1000

"I am afraid my partner is going to leave me if I tell them my true feelings, so I try to anticipate and meet all their needs before they express them. " This attachment strategy is known as ____________

What is anxious attachment?

1000

The concept of self-compassion includes these three components

What is kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness?