Recovery 101
What is a trigger?
A person, place, emotion, or situation that increases the urge to use
If a monkey, a squirrel, and a bird are racing to the top of a coconut tree, who will get the banana first?
None, coconut trees don’t grow bananas.
What is the name of AA’s basic text?
The Big Book
What is black-and-white thinking?
Seeing things as all good or all bad with no middle ground
Basketball players learn not to move this foot, the term for the axle around which a wheel turns.
What is a pivot
Name 3 common emotional relapse triggers.
Stress, anger, loneliness, boredom, or anxiety
A woman pushes her car to a hotel and then proceeds to tell the owner that she is bankrupt. Why?
She is playing Monopoly
What is the action word at the core of Step 3
Surrender
Expecting the worst possible outcome
What is catastrophizing
In the NFL, each of these measures 10 yards by 53 1/3 yards.
What is an end zone?
What emotion is most often underneath anger?
Fear or Hurt
How many times can you subtract 10 from 100?
Once. Next time you would be subtracting 10 from 90.
What are the two parts of the disease described in the Big Book?
The physical allergy and the mental obsession
Downplaying the seriousness of behavior or consequences
What is minimizing
How many rings are on the Olympic flag?
5
The ability to manage and respond to emotions in a healthy way
Emotional Regulation
If two’s company and three’s a crowd, what do four and five make?
9
According to the Big Book, what is the root of all our troubles?
Self- centeredness
Making excuses to support unhealthy behavior
“justifying” Thinking
What retired basketball player tried out for the Chicago White Sox in 1994?
Michael Jordan
Taking ownership of actions and consequences
Accountability
What has three feet but can’t walk?
A Yard Stick
Which Step transitions from internal work to relational repair?
Step 9
"Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others"
What is the most dangerous thinking error in recovery?
“I got this” / overconfidence / self-reliance
What is the only sport to be played on the moon?
Golf
Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard played golf on the moon on February 6, 1971