Recovery Dharma/ Refuge Recovery
This individuals teachings are used in Recovery Dharma.
Who is Buddha?
We are alike not different.
What is to "Pay attention to the similarities rather than the differences".
A person who has been abstinent for a long period and who is prepared to support a newly abstinent member.
What is a sponsor?
Self-Management and Recovery Training
What is SMART Recovery?
· Avoid feeling isolated and alone in your struggle
·Regain control of your life
·Learn from others who’ve experienced the same or a similar struggle
·Surround yourself with people who don’t judge you
·Talk openly about your experiences and feelings
·Relieve stress, anxiety and depression
·Gain a new perspective on your problems and your addiction
·Better understand addiction as a disease in which relapses happen and find ways to sidestep triggers
·Get referrals for treatment centers, therapists and doctors and others who can be helpful to your recovery
What is ways that recovery meetings are helpful?
Mentors, Wise Friends, Sangha
Staying focused on today.
What is "one day at a time".
“We admitted we were powerless over alcohol/drugs and that our lives had become unmanageable.”
What is Step One?
Key Areas of Awareness and Change.
Refusing to act on urges to us
Managing life's problems in a sensible and effective way without substances
Developing a positive, balanced, and healthy lifestyle.
People in a meeting, God, Nature, Music, Love, Reality, the universe.
What are type of higher powers?
This Recovery meeting believes this act should be done daily.
Meditation
Connecting to one part of a meeting/ story, but not the entire meeting/story.
What is "take what you can/need and leave the rest".
Going to breakfast after a meeting with others at the meeting, getting coffee with a friend in recovery and picking up the phone to call when struggling are examples of.
What is fellowship/ working the program?
Type of psychotherapy model used.
Rational Emotional Behavior Therapy (REBT)
After just one use, this drug can be seen in the brain and in toxicology screens for three to six weeks.
What is Marijuana?
The 8 fold path is made up of what principles and philosophies.
1. Wise Understanding
2. Wise Intention
3. Wise Speech
4. Wise Action
5. Wise Livelihood
6. Wise Effort
7. Wise Mindfulness
8. Wise Concentration
Referring to the common triggers involved in relapse. When temptation strikes, make sure you’re putting your mind and body in check.
HALT (Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired)
12 step meetings for family and loved ones.
SMART focuses on this in meetings.
What is present-day events and the causes of self-destructive behaviors.
Come back to programming, call a friend, call your sponsor, etc.
What to do after a relapse?
The Four Noble truths include what four teaching and commitments.
1. There is suffering. We commit to
understanding the truth of suffering.
2. There is a cause of suffering. We
commit to understanding that craving
leads to suffering.
3. There is an end to suffering. We
commit to understanding and
experiencing that less craving leads to
less suffering.
4. There is a path that leads to the end
of suffering. We commit to cultivating the path.
Stress and over-complication can lead to temptation. Maintaining simplicity can cut the distraction and ensure focus on recovery.
Keep It Simple, Stupid (KISS)
Year and place that 12 step recovery was founded.
AA was founded in Akron, Ohio when in 1935 one alcoholic, Bill Wilson, talked to another alcoholic, Bob Smith, about the nature of alcoholism and a possible solution.
Everyone turn to a person sitting next to you and tell them three things you enjoy about having them in group.
A set of persistent impairments that occur after withdrawal from alcohol, opiates, benzodiazepines, antidepressants and other substances.
What are PAWS (Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome)