Dad Jokes
It takes this many tickles to make a squid laugh
What is ten tickles (tentacles)?
A state of nonjudgmental awareness of what’s happening in the present moment, including the awareness of one’s own thoughts, feelings, and senses.
Mindfulness
A community-based program that was created to help those struggling with problematic drinking get sober with the support of their peers through daily meetings and discussions surrounding addiction.
AA
Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired
One of the arguments for the disease model of addiction is that addiction can change the physical structure of the brain. True or False
What is True?
What is an Eggnostic?
What is one example of a mindfulness exercise?
Using your 5 senses.
Identify the step: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
Step 3
Name some post acute withdrawal symptoms
Anxiety, irritability, mood swings, poor sleep ...etc
Over time, the brain adapts in a way that actually makes the sought-after substance or activity less pleasurable.
Tolerance
Something a nosey pepper might do
What is get jalapeño business?
Mindfulness helps focus on the _____
Present
CODA
Co-Dependents Anonymous
Signs of mental relapse
Thinking about people, places, and things you used with, Glamorizing your past use, Lying, Hanging out with old using friends, Fantasizing about using, Thinking about relapsing, Planning your relapse around other people's schedules
Addictive drugs can release 2 to 10 times the amount of _______ than natural rewards do
Dopamine
A fish wearing a bowtie
What is sofishticated?
Focus on your ___________ techniques to calm down.
Breathing
Who helps you work through steps?
What does it mean to 'play the tape through'
Remind yourself of the negative consequences you've already suffered, and the potential consequences that lie around the corner if you relapse again.
What age is your brain fully developed?
25
The reason Derek is suspicious of stairs
What is, they're always up to something?
Destructive thoughts about yourself, such as "I'm never going to get better.'
Negative self-talk
The opposite of addiction is not sobriety (abstaining from behavior), the opposite of addiction is _________________
What is connection?
Name the 3 stages of relapse
Emotional relapse, mental relapse, physical relapse
______ powers the ability to think, plan, solve problems, make decisions, and exert self-control over impulses.
Pre frontal cortex