Support Groups
What is the role of a sponsor in 12-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)?
What is someone who has experience in recovery and provides guidance, support, and accountability to a person working through the steps?
This professional is often a crucial part of a recovery plan, helping individuals navigate challenges and create strategies for relapse prevention.
Who is Therapist/Counselor?
Addiction was a lifelong battle for the Star Wars actress. She often spoke and wrote about her experiences with drug and alcohol use disorder and recovery, as well as her bipolar disorder. Fisher died in 2016 at age 60 after going into cardiac arrest on a trans-Atlantic flight.
Who is Carrie Fisher?
the practice of regularly writing down your thoughts, feelings, experiences, and reflections. It can take various forms and serve multiple purposes, including personal reflection, goal setting and planning, creative expression, and gratitude development.
What is Journaling?
The most important person at a 12 step meeting
What is the Newcomer
In order to create new ___ ____. You may need to find new ways to celebrate, have fun, new plans for how to spend your evenings, etc.
What is Healthy Routine?
This famous actor starred in The Hangover and A Star is Born. His struggled with alcohol abuse progressively worsened during his rise to fame.
Who is Bradley Cooper?
You should "H.A.L.T." when you feel triggered, and check for these feelings.
What is Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired?
This organization provides a network of support for individuals in recovery and their families, especially for those affected by addiction.
What is Al-Anon or Nar-Anon
A critical coping strategy for maintaining recovery that involves distancing oneself from people, places, or things associated with addiction.
What is avoid triggers?
This famous child star developed problems with alcohol and drugs by the age of 14. She has since gone on to play in films with Adam Sandler and even had her own talk show.
Who is Drew Barrymore?
What are two ways breathing exercises help manage cravings in recovery?
Deep breathing helps calm the nervous system, reduces anxiety, and distracts from cravings.
A term for when someone finds it difficult to stay connected to a recovery community or loses contact with their support system.
The process of integrating strategies for coping with and recovering from mental health disorders into everyday life
What is relapse prevention?
The AIDS crisis inspired the singer to address his addictions. He says when his friend, the young AIDS activist Ryan White, died in 1990, he felt a lot of regret that he had spent the previous decade absorbed in alcohol and cocaine misuse. He sought treatment in 1990 and established an AIDS Foundation 2 years later.
Who is Elton John?
A __________ is a technique in which a person creates images in the mind that can influence what the mind and body do now and in the future.
What is visualization?
The term for a group of people who share common recovery experiences and offer emotional support to one another.
What is a support group?
3 stages of relapse
What is emotional, mental, then physical?
This actress previously struggled with cocaine abuse before getting sober. She was the first black news anchor in Nashville, and known for her popular TV talk show.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
is the cognitive skill, usually developed through meditation, of sustaining meta-attentive awareness towards the contents of one's own mind in the present moment. Non-judgemental acceptance.
What is Mindfulness?