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Maslows Theory

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Maslows Theory

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  1. Women In RecoveryEmpowering the Spirit, Mind and Body A 6 week Recovery Program designed to Empower Women and learn to make healthy life choices

  2. Week 2 priorities Easier Said than Done!!

  3. Today’s Agenda • Quiet Moment • Check-in • Hierarchy of Needs • Priority Activity • WIRE Toolbox

  4. Quiet Time Sit quietly for a minute or two, and focus on where we are now.

  5. Check-in • Name, Feeling Today, Last Use • 12-Step meetings/Recovery Activities– How did it go? • Check in on meetings • Did you go? What happened?

  6. Needs and wants

  7. Abraham Maslow • Psychologist • Father of humanistic psychology • Developed a way to understand and explain human needs

  8. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

  9. Specific needs withinHierarchy • Physiological : Hunger, thirst and sex • Safety : Security & stability, dependency, protection, freedom from fear. • Social : Affection, belongingness • Esteem : Strength, reputation, confidence, importance • Actualization :Self fulfillment, cognitive needs

  10. Wants and Needs • Sometimes it is hard to distinguish the difference between these: • Needs: a physiological or psychological requirement for the well-being of an organism • Wants: to desire greatly; or wish for • Understanding basic needs helps to: • Prioritize needs • Recognize the difference between a need and a want

  11. Interesting, but how does this apply to recovery?

  12. “Needs & Wants” Discussion • Identify some specific needs and wants you are addressing at this time in your life • What type of feelings or sensations do you experience with these? • How do YOU distinguish the difference between a need or a want? • How does this help your recovery, your family?

  13. Break time!

  14. Discussion – Putting RecoveryFirst • Will people think I am being selfish? • Maybe • Does that mean that I put my recovery before everything else…? • Family (Children) • Financial Security (Job) • Relationships (Spouse or Friendships)

  15. Activity – Priorities • Get five small pieces of paper • List the five most important things in your life • Put one on each piece of paper with your initials • Sort them in order of importance • Experience what happens when the disease of addiction wins…

  16. Selfishness, Self-less-ness,& Being Self-full • As women, we are often uncomfortable focusing on “I”, and are afraid of being selfish • We often become selfless, we lose all sense of ourselves, always doing for others • Recovery is a time for learning about yourself, and healing yourself • Take a look at yourself to see who you are

  17. What is a sponsor? • What is a sponsor • A guide for recovery • Temporary sponsors • The sponsor should be • Clean and sober for at least 2 years • Available to connect by phone or in person at least one time per week • Has the kind of recovery similar to what you want • (Note that face to face meeting with sponsor may count as an alternative recovery activity if it lasts one hour or more)

  18. Recovery Tools 2 • Priority List in planner • Phone Lists • Self-care contracts

  19. Week 3 Assignment • Gather stuff, maybe one or two pictures, or magazines, poems, etc. to personalize your binder • Attend two recovery activities:12 step meetings or other group • Be here next week !!!

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