Relationships & Recovery
This type of communication involves clearly expressing your needs, feelings, or boundaries while still respecting the other person.
What is assertive communication?
Friends, family members, sponsors, peers, or other supportive people who help someone maintain their recovery can make up what?
What is a sober support network?
A person minimizes or refuses to acknowledge that their substance use is causing problems in their life. What is this commonly called?
What is denial?
An intense urge or desire to use a substance is known as what?
What is a craving?
In a 12-step recovery program, this person provides guidance and support to someone working through the program.
What is a sponsor?
When someone repeatedly does something for another person that allows that person to avoid the natural consequences of their behavior.
What is enabling?
This grounding technique asks you to identify five things you can see, four you can touch, three you can hear, two you can smell, and one you can taste.
What is the 5-4-3-2-1 technique?
A person recognizes that their substance use is creating problems but continues to find reasons why they don't need to change yet. What stage of change does this describe?
What is contemplation?
According to a commonly used recovery concept, the opposite of addiction is not simply sobriety, but what?
What is connection?
A state of mind where you are thankful and taking notice of the good things in your life rather than the bad.
What is gratitude?
This is built when people consistently follow through on their words, respect boundaries, and demonstrate reliability over time.
What is trust?
A person experiencing a strong craving notices the urge without acting on it, reminds themselves that it will eventually decrease, and allows the feeling to pass. What coping technique is this?
What is urge surfing?
Creating consistent times for sleep, meals, treatment, responsibilities, and recovery activities can help make new behaviors easier to maintain. What is this called?
What is structure?
Recovery involves caring for multiple areas of a person's well-being, including their physical health, mental/emotional health, relationships, and sense of purpose or meaning. What approach focuses on treating the whole person?
What is holistic recovery/healing?
This term describes choosing an immediate reward or relief even when waiting could lead to a greater long-term benefit.
What is instant gratification?
A person in recovery identifies what behaviors they are and are not willing to accept from the people around them and communicates those limits clearly. What are they establishing?
What are boundaries?
Before acting on a craving, a person mentally considers what is likely to happen immediately afterward and where that choice could ultimately lead. What recovery coping strategy is this?
What is playing the tape forward?
A person recognizes the consequences of their substance use and wants things to be different, but they are still unsure about giving up the behavior. What is this called?
What is ambivalence?
This part of the brain plays an important role in decision-making, judgment, and impulse control and can be affected by chronic substance use. What is it?
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This acronym reminds people in recovery to check whether they are Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or ______ before making an impulsive decision.
What is tired?
A person becomes so focused on managing another person's emotions, substance use, and problems that they begin neglecting their own needs and boundaries. What is this dynamic commonly called?
What is codependency?
This coping technique involves identifying an unhelpful thought, examining whether it is accurate or helpful, and replacing it with a more balanced perspective.
What is cognitive reframing?
What are the five stages of change in the Transtheoretical Model, in order?
What are Precontemplation, Contemplation, Preparation, Action, and Maintenance?
In recovery, developing new habits and behaviors can help the brain “rewire itself” and create new patterns. What is the brain's ability to change and adapt called?
What is neuroplasticity?
A person has been doing well in recovery for several months and begins skipping meetings, ignoring warning signs, and telling themselves they don't need to put as much effort into recovery anymore. What is this mindset called?
What is complacency?