Coping Skills
Name one way to ground yourself in the moment.
5-4-3-2-1, deep breathing, Meditation
One day ___
What is “at a time”?
AA was founded in this year.
What is 1935?
9th Step Promise: If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a NEW ________ and a NEW ________.
Freedom and Happiness
Step 3: Made a decision to turn our will over to the care of GOD as we understood Him.
Faith
What does HALT stand for and what are coping mechanisms for each word of the acronym?
Hungry (eat, pray, nourish)
Angry (breathing, time out, prayer, meeting, call sponsor, thought stopping, ABCD, communication)
Lonely (meeting, sponsor, fellowship)
Tired (rest, pray)
“Easy does ___”
What is “it”?
The two men credited with starting AA are Bill W. and this doctor.
Who is Dr. Bob (Smith)?
This type of goal-setting helps keep progress realistic.
What are small, realistic, or achievable goals?
Honesty
What’s one coping tool you can use without leaving your chair?
(Breathing, prayer, positive self-talk, mindfulness, etc.)
Progress not
Perfection
The AA symbol is a triangle inside a circle. The three sides of the triangle stand for what?
What are unity, service, and recovery?
Celebrating milestones like 30, 60, or 90 days sober is called this.
What is a sobriety chip (or coin celebration)?
Step 2: Came to BELIEVE that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
HOPE
Scheduling time to relax or engage in hobbies is a form of this skill.
What is self-care?
“Nothing changes if ___”
What is “nothing changes”?
AA literature often refers to alcoholism as an “allergy of the body” and this of the mind.
What is “an obsession of the mind”?
Many recovery programs teach us to place faith in this “greater” concept.
What is a Higher Power?
Step 4 Made a searching and FEARLESS moral inventory of ourselves.
COUARGE
This coping skill involves saying “no” to protect your peace.
What is setting boundaries?
Let go and
let God
The AA Preamble ends with these words: “Keep coming ___.”
What is “back”?
This is the answer to all of my problems today.
Acceptance pg 417
Step 12: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of this these steps, we tried to CARRY this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Service