12 Step
What does AA stand for?
Alcoholics Anonymous
This type of therapy helps you identify and challenge negative thinking patterns.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
This neurotransmitter is boosted with exercise and good sleep.
Dopamine
This sport is known as “America’s pastime.”
What is baseball?
This vegetable makes you cry when you cut it.
What is an onion?
Step 1 of the 12 steps begins with admitting this.
Powerlessness
In therapy, this "inner" version of you might carry childhood wounds.
What is the inner child?
Long-term substance use can shrink this part of your brain responsible for decision-making.
prefrontal cortex
This GOAT wore #23 for the Chicago Bulls.
Michael Jordan
This animal can’t jump but is known for its trunk.
What is an elephant?
This person helps guide you through the 12 steps
This happens when you blame others for your feelings—something therapy helps you stop doing.
What is projection?
Meditation has been shown to reduce this hormone associated with stress.
cortisol
The Super Bowl is the championship game of this league.
What is the NFL?
This famous candy melts in your mouth, not in your hands.
What are M&M’s?
Who authored the Big Book and created the 12 steps
Bill Wilson
This word describes the act of sitting with your feelings instead of running from them.
What is processing? (or acceptance, sitting with discomfort—can be flexible)
What does PAWS stand for
Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome
This Olympic sport involves a balance beam, vault, and uneven bars.
What is gymnastics?
This U.S. state is shaped like a boot and loves spicy food.
What is Louisiana?
This spiritual principle is tied to Step 3, where we turn our will and lives over to the care of a Higher Power.
Surrender
This therapy model teaches that you’re made up of different “parts,” like a manager, exile, or firefighter.
Internal Family Systems
This is the term for the brain’s ability to change and adapt.
neuroplasticity
This legendary boxer once said, “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”
Who is Muhammad Ali?
This fruit has its seeds on the outside, which is extremely rare in the plant kingdom.
What is a strawberry?