Key Terms
Learning how to manage trauma symptoms and how to cope without the use of substances.
A. Seeking Safety
B. Searching for Wellness
C. Hunting for Security
D. Finding Nemo
What is "seeking safety?"
This form of grounding means "to focus your mind."
A. Mental grounding
B. Physical grounding
C. Soothing grounding
D. Landing a plane
What is "mental grounding?"
Examples: Playing a category game, imagining, counting to 10, saying the alphabet, describing an activity in great detail.
This is a typical indicator that substance use has become problematic.
A. You're able to quit when you want to quit using.
B. Your substance use interferes with other responsibilities.
C. You don't spend any time using.
What is "use that interferes with other responsibilities?
______ is not sufficient to overcome alcoholism or addiction.
What is "willpower"
This step involves asking a higher power to remove short-comings
What is step 7? "Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings"
A pattern of harmful use of drugs and alcohol that impacts one's ability to stay safe.
A. Recreational Drinking
B. Legal Use of Substances
C. Substance Abuse
D. Substance Misuse
What is "substance abuse?"
This form of grounding means "focusing your senses."
A. Mental grounding
B. Physical grounding
C. Soothing grounding
D. Landing a jet
What is "physical grounding?"
Examples: running water over your hands, digging your heels into the floor, jumping up and down, stretching, noticing your body.
The best way to stop using substances.
A. Cold turkey / giving everything up all at once
B. Warm turkey / giving everything up for x amount of weeks
C. Harm reduction / cutting down gradually
D. There is no "best way" to stop using.
D
What is viewed as the only viable alternative for the addict or alcoholic?
What is "life long abstinence"
In this step, my list looked like this.... · Wanting things my way · Wanting special treatment · Wanting others to meet my needs
What is step 4? Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
A response in which one can experience trauma flashbacks, negative emotional states, nightmares, and hypervigilance.
A. Adjustment Disorder
B. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
C. Acute Stress Disorder
D. Reactive Attachment Disorder
What is "posttraumatic stress disorder" or PTSD?
This form of grounding means "talking to yourself in a very kind way."
A. Mental grounding
B. Physical grounding
C. Soothing grounding
D. Landing a rocket
What is "soothing grounding?"
Examples: Say kind things, think of favorites, remember a safe place, say a coping statement.
What does the journey of recovery look like over time.
A. A hill
B. The ocean
C. A mountain
D. Quicksand
What is "a mountain?"
12 step groups believe that alcohol and addiction are considered a ______.
What is "chronic disease"
I knew that my higher power could help me feel sane again.
What is step 2? "Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity"
A term for healthy detachment or distraction techniques.
A. Doing absolutely nothing
B. Mindfulness meditation
C. Grounding
D. Relaxation techniques
What is "grounding?"
This is where your focus should be when you are practicing grounding.
A. In the past
B. In the present
C. In the future
D. The goal is to not pay any attention at all
What is "in the present?"
A. Self-help groups
B. Church sermons
C. A college course
D. A block party
What are "self help groups?"
Abstinence is not enough...the Twelve Steps also help you work on these personal flaws.
What are character defects?
In this step my list looked like this.... My Mom because I took money from her, My friend because I lied to her about everything, My boss because I didn't show up for the big presentation.
What is Step 8? "Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all "
A stimulus that prompts the recollection of a previously traumatic incident, or a stimulus that prompts a type of substance craving.
A. Enkindling
B. Sudden Prompt
C. Intrusive Memory
D. Trigger
What is a "trigger?"
Grounding is a highly active strategy that works via _______ and connection to the ______ world.
Bonus Question for 100 points: Name at least three grounding techniques.
What is "distraction; external".
Examples: Counting to 10, run cool or warm water over your hands, say kind statements, play a "categories" game with yourself
The answer to all of our problems (Big Book p. 417).
What is ACCEPTANCE?
What are the three legacies of AA?
What is "recovery, unity and service"
It's OK to say "I am wrong"
What is Step 7? "Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it"