This foundational 12-step principle, often quoted as a slogan, encourages staying present by focusing only on the 24 hours ahead rather than future outcomes. It’s also the title of a book used in some recovery circles.
What is One Day at a Time?
This artist told us to “Lose Yourself” in the music, the moment.
Who is Eminem?
In Forrest Gump, life is compared to this sweet treat.
What is a box of chocolates?
If you mix red and blue paint, you get this color.
What is purple?
Which weighs more: a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
What is neither, they weigh the same?
This is the first step in admitting you have a problem.
What is Step One – Admitting powerlessness over substances?
In her song “Praying,” this pop singer describes her journey through abuse, addiction, and recovery.
Who is Kesha?
This TV show followed six friends hanging out at Central Perk.
What is Friends?
This country has more vending machines than people per capita.
What is Japan?
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
What is the letter M?
HALT stands for these four warning signs that can lead to relapse.
What are Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired?
This artist moonwalked his way into pop music history with the album Thriller.
Who is Michael Jackson?
This animated movie about emotions inside a young girl’s head made us all cry.
What is Inside Out?
This is the only letter that doesn’t appear in any U.S. state name.
What is Q?
A rooster lays an egg on a rooftop. Which side does it roll down?
Roosters don’t lay eggs.
This popular phrase reminds you that helping others also helps yourself in recovery.
What is You have to give it away to keep it?
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This band told us “you can’t always get what you want…”
Who are The Rolling Stones?
This actor played Deadpool and is known for his sarcasm.
Who is Ryan Reynolds?
The Eiffel Tower can grow taller in this kind of weather.
What is hot weather (due to metal expansion)?
If there are 3 apples and you take away 2, how many do you have?
What is 2 — because you took them?
This defense mechanism is when you tell yourself, “It wasn’t that bad” after wrecking relationships, careers, or health with substances.
What is minimization?
This rapper famously turned his life around and now has the hit show Power.
Who is 50 Cent?
In The Lion King, this character told Simba to “remember who you are.”
Who is Mufasa?
This condiment was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.
What is ketchup?
What’s so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
What is silence?