Understanding Trauma
Triggers
The Inner Wounded Child
True of False
100
Trauma involves what happens inside a person after an experience overwhelms their ability to _____
What is "Cope"
100
_________ and becoming ___________ are a normal part of trauma. They occur until the trauma is processed and resolved.
What is triggers and becoming triggered
100
My inner child is that part of me that remembers what it's like to be ____________.
What is Young?
100
By addressing unresolved childhood experiences, you can better understand your triggers and improve your emotional well-being. True or False?
What is true? This is key in transforming past hardships into present healing
200
According to the author of the book (Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.), "The Body Keeps the Score, _________ can negatively impact the mind and body.
What is "Trauma"
200
List at least 3 things that can trigger trauma:
Sounds, smells, people, places, thoughts, feelings, media, situations
200
Reparenting is a technique for h___________ the inner wounded child.
What is healing
200
You cannot recover from past trauma - True or False?
What is false. 
300
Name 3 ways that trauma can show up in your body:
1. _________
2. __________
3. __________
Your heart - racing heart beat, pounding, tightness in your chest, etc.
Your thoughts - racing thoughts, overthinking, cognitive distorted thinking
Your breathing - shortness of breath; panicky
Your feelings - feeling unmotivated, anxious, irritable, etc.
Your body - stomach aches, headaches, feeling stuck
Your behaviors - avoidance; isolating, shutting down
300
feeling excluded, feeling powerless, feeling unheard, scolded, blamed, disrespected, like a bad person, unloved, etc., are negative ways that we can feel _______________
What is triggered.
300
Earning t_________ is another way to heal your inner wounded child.
What is earning Trust
(according the the Pschye2go video)
300
I will always be defined by my trauma - it's who I am now.
What is False!
Your trauma doesn't define you. It's something that happened to you and you coped the best way you could at the time.
400
Trauma can negatively impact many aspects of one's life. Name at least 3.
relationships, physical and mental health, behaviors, inappropriate coping strategies
400
Events or stages that are a pattern of responding to a trigger is called a trigger c_________.
What is trigger cycle.
400
Name at least 3 things that every child deserves to experience or feel
to feel safe, loved, heard, important, protected and respected.
400
Talking about trauma only retriggers it.
What is false? Talking about trauma helps reduce the stigma.
500
By changing your thoughts from "what's wrong with me?" to "this is what happened to me and how I learned to survive it" is an example of ____________.
What is "reframing".
500
Name a least 3 coping strategies for dealing with triggers
What is grounding techniques (5,4,3,2,1); breathing techniques, distractions, movement, being creative, talking to someone, journaling, gratitude lists, writing a letter to the person that caused you harm; etc.
500
Identify how the inner wounded child can show up in adult life. For example - having trust issues.
500
It's important to recognize the trigger as soon as possible to process it (the trauma). True/False
What is true:
- Identify the details of the triggers
- Recognize being triggered as soon as possible
- Attribute all or most of the arousal/activation to unresolved trauma
- Be with and determine the discomfort or dysregulation
- Work to regulate your nervous system
- Work to resolve the trigger with trauma processing