Emotions
My emotions do not last forever, they are only _____.
What is temporary.
_____ ______is a mechanism including the brain and the body that send signals to and from each other .
What is a feedback loop?
The _____ is responsible for producing our thoughts and our emotions.
What is the brain?
Therapy should not last _________. If therapy is extending too long, this is an indication that progress is not being made.
What is forever?
____ ____ are things you can learn to help regulate your emotions.
What are coping skills?
Emotions are part of automatic _______ that result from assessments and predictions in our environment.
What are reactions?
When we are feeling this emotion, our body's heart rate increases, our breathing rate increases, our digestion stops, and blood travels to our vital organs.
What is anxious, nervous, scared, worried?
When we are experiencing intense emotions, we disconnect from our _____ ______.
What is our thinking brain?
These types of people benefit from therapy the most.
What is anyone? Therapy has no limits on age, gender, status, or any socially constructed characteristics. It's for those who need it!
________ is engaging your 5 senses to bring yourself into the present moment.
What is grounding?
These type of emotions can be uncomfortable and unpleasant, but they are essential parts of the human experience.
What are negative emotions. They are important in protecting us, they help to keep us safe.
Our body is constantly reacting to cues in our environment based on predictions made in our ______.
What is brain?
When we are disconnected from our thinking brain, we can use coping skills to do this when experiencing intense emotions.
What is reconnect. We can learn skills dedicated to helping us reconnect to our thinking brains when we're mad, scared, or stressed, such as mindfulness and grounding.
A common myth about therapy is that people who are ______ go to therapy.
What is crazy/broken?
Grounding, yoga, breath work, art, and exercise are example of this, where the action takes you away from the emotion you are experiencing and into the present moment.
What is mindfulness?
Since emotions are temporary, they can be quantified as an _______. Meaning, they happen episodically, they are state dependent, and they are separate from who we are as a person.
What is an experience. We are not our emotions, they are an experience and separate from our true selves.
We can interrupt the feedback loop occurring in the body and the brain with these.
What is our thoughts?
These two things work together to ensure safety and protection.
What is the brain and the body?
Social workers, marriage and family, and psychologists are all types of this.
What is therapists?
When the _______ _______ are engaged, we can reconnect to our thinking brains during periods of intense emotion.
What are the five senses - sight, touch, audio, smell, and taste
Learning ways to calm ourselves, change our thinking patterns, and control our emotions is known as this concept.
What is emotional regulation?
What is safe!
Known as our thinking brain, this part of the brain is responsible for critical thinking, decision making, and rationalizing.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
Art, imaginative play, and physical exercise can all be forms of _____.
What is therapy?
This practice is known for calming, assisting with anxiety and depression, and brings you into the present moment. It can be practiced in many ways, any where, any time.
What is Mindfulness?