5. Quiet time
Check-in Mini Check-in
Self-esteem and self-efficacy
Polluting Messages & Low self-esteem
feed addiction
Compliments Activity
Recovery tool - affirmations
6. Name
Feeling
Last use
12 step meetings?
What happened?
Success with last week’s recovery
tool (HALT)
7. Webster’s dictionary defines it as
simply a "confidence and satisfaction
in oneself."
However one chooses to define it, self-esteem
is based on
Understanding
Accepting
Liking oneself
8. How competent you believe
you are
A person's judgments of their
own capabilities to follow
through with reaching
personal goals
9.
10. Many of the messages we
have heard were lies
People in our lives
sometimes criticized and
blamed us –
so they wouldn’t have to be
responsible
We heard them so many
times that we began to believe
them…
At this point in our lives,
these dishonest messages
may seem like the truth!
An important part of
RECOVERY is
Learning to recognize
these “old tapes” and
11. Response
Format
1 = Not at all true
2 = Hardly true
3 = Moderately true
4 = Exactly true
1
I can always manage to solve difficult 1 problems if I
try hard enough
2 If someone opposes me, I can find the means and ways
to get what I want
3 It is easy for me to stick to my aims and accomplish
my goals.
4 I am confident that I could deal efficiently with
unexpected events.
5 Thanks to my resourcefulness, I know how to handle
unforeseen situations.
6 I can solve most problems if I invest the necessary
effort.
7 I can remain calm when facing difficulties because I
can rely on my coping abilities.
8 When I am confronted with a problem, I can usually
find several solutions.
9 If I am in trouble, I can usually think of a solution.
10
I can usually handle whatever comes my way.
12. Low Self-Esteem is a self-fulfilling
prophecy
If you think you can, you’re right
If you think you can’t, you’re right
--Individuals with low self-esteem may not expect to do well.
--They sometimes avoid trying to accomplish things because they are
sure they will fail
They may not give themselves a chance to
experience success
• As a result, their self-esteem remains low.
13. Individuals with low self-esteem Do not expect to
do well
Sometimes avoid doing new things because of
fear of failure
Do not give themselves a
experience
Keeping their self-esteem lower
14. ….
How you think and feel, and your body’s
response…
15. Have you ever heard of “fear
of success”?
Have you ever experienced
it?
19. Help each other tape picture frames
on your backs
Write a positive word or sentence
on the paper that describes what you
know or think about each woman in
the group
20. Read your paper aloud, using “I
statements”
I am ______________
How did it feel writing on another
person’s back?
How did it feel to have others write
on your back?
How is it for you to accept
compliments from other women?
21. Recording NEW tapes Must be
In present tense
Positive vision
No-no’s - Absence of
negative terms
Write these on the Post-its so that
they are easily accessible
Write these on the sticky notes so
That they are easily accessible
Editor's Notes
Quiet time today will be a breathing exercise. Please see Women’s Video
for demonstration of the breathing exercise.
Understand that self-esteem grows from messages, and how that relates
to recovery. Distinguish between self-esteem and self-efficacy.
During check-in today we will ask people to add a comment about how it
went last week using the recovery tool of HALT.
It is important for the participants to understand what self-esteem and selfefficacy
mean and the difference between those two terms. Sometimes even the
counselors are confused about this, so review this section before group and
make sure that you understand it.
Pajares, F. (2002). Overview of social cognitive theory and of selfefficacy.
Retrieved 6/1/2007 from
http://www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/eff.html
This section explains how low self-esteem relates to addictive behavior.
Creating self-efficacy and self-esteem is a strong weapon for fighting addiction.
Addiction feeds on negative messages and we just can’t afford to pollute our
system with those messages. The first step in changing that is learning to
recognize old tapes. This leads to the next slide which talks about polluting
messages and introduces the concept of the tape recorder. Ask whose voice it
might be. Be prepared that some participants may identify a parent’s voice, but it
could be their peers, their teachers or their current sexual partners that criticize
and tell them that they are not good enough
This is an activity that helps participants recognize that sometimes even
positive messages or compliments can be challenging. One metaphor for this is
“starving at the feast” and having a barrier to nurturing. Give each participant a
piece of paper and have them draw a picture frame on it. Tape their picture
frames on their backs. Participants then write a positive sentence or compliment
about each woman in the group in that woman’s frame with washable markers.
Suggest they write about something that they have noticed or thought about that
person. Sometimes it helps to maybe give them a couple of examples, but once
they start writing they see other people’s examples on the frames.
Rhonda Eppard, previous experience as addiction counselor
This Recovery Tool is jokingly called Sticky Note Therapy, a simple way of
getting affirmations posted in each participant’s life. Give each participant a
Sticky Note pad and a pen and then lead them through creating three different
affirmations so that they understand the guidelines of writing an affirmation.
present tense
positive vision
an absence of any kind of negative terms. I call this the “No-nos in
affirmations”.
Everybody should write at least one affirmation on their sticky note pad.
Suggest sticking one on the mirror and saying the affirmation out loud while
looking themselves in the eye. Sometimes that is too challenging for people.
Anywhere they choose to put the affirmation will be OK. Explain that this process
requires repetition, and remind them how often they heard the negative
messages. They need to hear the positive messages at least that many times.
Note: Throughout this session ask participants to notice the physical
sensation of pleasure felt when they open up to positive messages. Make sure
every participant experiences this at least once. Relate that feeling back to the
“short-cut” to good feelings that their addiction provided. Make sure they understand that letting themselves feel the pleasure of self-esteem and selfefficacy
protects them and takes the power out of their addiction. Point out that
they can move that power back inside them where it belongs with their new tool
of positive messages.