Coping Skills
Healthy Eating
80s & 90s Movies
Communication Skills
Interesting Facts
👑 Final Jeopardy
100
This common physical coping skill involves taking a brief walk, running, or dancing to quickly burn off excess adrenaline and boost endorphins.
What is Exercise (or Physical Activity)?
100
Doctors recommend limiting foods with high amounts of this sweet, white additive, which causes rapid blood sugar spikes and energy crashes.
What is Added Sugar?
100
In 1993's blockbuster Jurassic Park, this specific species of dinosaur serves as the main pack-hunting villain that stalks the children in the kitchen.
What is a Velociraptor (or Raptor)?
100
This fundamental part of communication involves waiting silently without interrupting while another person finishes their sentence.
What is Patience (or Pausing)?
100
This red planet in our solar system is home to Olympus Mons, the largest volcano discovered by astronomers.
What is Mars?
200
This boundaries-related coping skill simply involves using this powerful two-letter word to protect your time, energy, and mental health.
What is "No"?
200
Eggs, chicken breast, tofu, and lentils are excellent dietary sources of this macronutrient, which is essential for building and repairing muscles.
What is Protein?
200
This 1986 action film starring Tom Cruise features elite fighter pilots competing at the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School.
What is Top Gun?
200
This process involves repeating what you just heard back to the speaker in your own words to ensure you understood them correctly.
What is Paraphrasing (or Reflecting)?
200
Human fingerprint patterns are unique, but so are the individual prints found on this specific sensory facial feature of dogs.
What is the Nose?
300
This sensory coping practice involves listening to binaural beats, upbeat tracks, or calming nature sounds to quickly shift your emotional state.
What is Music Therapy (or Listening to Music)?
300
Often called "good bacteria," these live microorganisms found in yogurt, kefir, and kimchi help maintain a balanced and healthy gut microbiome.
What are Probiotics?
300
In 1997's sci-fi comedy Men in Black, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones use a flashing silver device called a "Neuralyzer" to do this to witnesses.
What is Erase their memory?
300
These types of questions cannot be answered with a simple "yes" or "no" and are ideal for keeping a meaningful conversation flowing.
What are Open-Ended Questions?
300
This iconic European tower can actually grow up to 6 inches taller during the hot summer months due to the thermal expansion of its iron structure.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
400
This self-compassion strategy involves treating yourself with the same kindness and understanding that you would offer to this close person in your life.
What is a Friend?
400
This sunshine-associated vitamin is crucial for bone health and immune function, but it is rarely found naturally in foods unless they are fortified.
What is Vitamin D?
400
This 1982 Steven Spielberg film features a young boy named Elliott who befriends a stranded, candy-loving alien trying to go home.
What is E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial?
400
This validation technique involves explicitly recognizing and naming the other person's emotions during a difficult conversation.
What is Emotional Validation?
400
This nocturnal mammal is the only species in its class that is structurally capable of true, sustained flapping flight.
What is a Bat?
500
Named after a 20th-century doctor, this systematic relaxation technique teaches you to warm your limbs and slow your heart rate using heavy, warm body suggestions.
What is Autogenic Training?
500
This term describes the internal psychological cues of physical fullness that signal your brain it is time to stop eating.
What is Satiety?
500
In the 1999 sci-fi classic The Matrix, Keanu Reeves' character Neo is offered a choice between two colored pills; he swallows this specific color to see the truth.
What is the Red Pill?
500
This critical conversation rule means focusing strictly on the current problem rather than bringing up a laundry list of past mistakes from previous arguments.
What is Staying Present (or Avoid Kitchen-Sinking)?
500
This standard item found on your computer keyboard is officially the most frequently struck key during normal human typing.
What is the Spacebar?
500
This fictional, utopian hidden valley city located in the Kunlun Mountains was introduced in James Hilton's 1933 novel Lost Horizon and is now a universal synonym for a permanent earthly paradise.
What is Shangri-La?