Coping Skills
You can express your emotions no matter what they are by using this coping skill
Music
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Step 9
Common place/places
These people USUALLY show you unconditional love
Family
When you have a mental health disorder & a substance use disorder, you have this
Dual Diagnosis
Most commonly used when angry
Deep Breathing
Chapter 7 of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous covers this step.
Step 12
Most common gatherings that could trigger you
Scheduled events
This person can SYMPATHIZE with you
Peer/Friend
Founders for AA/NA
Bill W & Dr. Bob
Jimmy K
This helps you center yourself and find a balance
Meditation
This section in Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions contains the phrase "Our whole problem had been the misuse of willpower. We had tried to bombard our problems with it instead of attempting to bring it into agreement with God's intention for us."
Step 3
Someone you need to let go of
Old using friends/relationships
NA/AA support groups
This technique is used to encourage you to think positively about yourself and things in life
Affirmations
An activity used to enhance our emotional, mental, and physical health.
Self-Care
This is named the "number one offender" in the section of the Big Book concerned with Step Four.
These are examples of negative emotional triggers
Anxiety/Depression/Guilt/Shame
This person motivates you/guides you in your recovery
sponsor
A desire or dream you try to achieve in a certain amount of time, no matter the costs.
Goals
Use this to express your internal feelings
Journaling
Which step asks you to make a searching and fearless moral inventory of your past?
Step 4
These are examples of internal triggers
Isolation/Boredom
This is a familiar term used in AA/NA that is always with you
Higher Power
________________ is the pleasure chemical in our brains that plays a major role in substance abuse and addiction
Dopamine