Life Skills
Looking after oneself in a way that promotes positivity for the mind, body, and spirit.
What is Self-Care?
True or False: It is possible to find meaningful and fulfilling employment once in recovery.
What is TRUE?
The ability to understand, use, and manage your own emotions in a positive way.
What is Emotional Intelligence?
This is commonly known as the “cuddle hormone” and is produced during social bonding.
What is Oxytocin?
This is a nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem.
What is Narcotics Anonymous?
This is a very helpful skill in living a life of recovery, promoting a consistent schedule.
What is a Routine?
This is important to create when looking for employment, as it shows off your work experience, education, and skills.
What is a Resume?
The term used to describe the meeting of the emotional mind and the reasonable mind.
What is Wise Mind?
This is a brain chemical that, in the right quantities, helps you feel calm, confident, and patient.
What is Serotonin?
This is an international fellowship of men and women who have had a drinking problem.
What is Alcoholics Anonymous?
Learning these will help you with misunderstandings, anger, and unresolved feelings.
What are Communication Skills?
This is vital in employment, as it shows your ability to use critical thinking, creativity, and team work to create solutions.
What is Problem Solving?
The ability to exert control over ones emotional state.
The two categories of neurotransmitters in the brain.
What are excitatory and inhibitory?
Excitatory: they stimulate brain activity
Inhibitory: they have a more calming effect
This is a nationwide, nonprofit organization which offers free support groups to individuals who desire to gain independence from any type of addictive behavior.
What is SMART Recovery?
Practicing this maintains health, prevents disease, and improves overall wellbeing.
What is Hygeine?
The persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success.
What is Perseverance?
The word used to describe putting yourself in someone else's shoes and understanding why they may have particular feelings.
What is Empathy?
This is a neurotransmitter that affects how we feel pleasure and is crucial to our internal reward system.
The year that the Alcoholics Anonymous book first appeared.
What is 1939?
This act releases endorphins, and improves both physical and mental health.
What is Exercise?
The reduction of the intensity of a conflict or potentially violent situation.
What is De-escalation?
The method that is used to measure how an individual is doing emotionally, and how to move down to a state of lesser emotional distress.
What is taking your emotional temperature?
These are neurotransmitters that act on the opiate receptors in our brains.
What are Endorphins?
The letters in S.M.A.R.T. stand for this.
What is Self-Management And Recovery Training?