Emotions
This feeling is sometimes referred to as seeing red.
What is anger?
This coping skill comes naturally, we just have to pay attention to it
What is breathing?
This strategy focuses on filling up the belly with air and releasing it.
What is balloon breathing?
The sense that takes in visual information.
What is sight?
These control your behavior
What are thoughts?
This feeling is sometimes referred to as feeling blue.
What is sad?
This coping skill uses numbers to focus our brain
What is counting to ten?
This breathing strategy makes you feel like it's your birthday!
What is blowing out candles?
The olfactory sense.
What is smell?
This is a method of being self-aware that often involves meditation
What is mindfulness?
Sometimes called anxiety, this feeling can make us nervous or scared.
What is worry?
This skill gets your body moving!
What is exercise?
This strategy helps you concentrate on only your breathing.
What is meditation?
The sense that interprets sound waves.
What is hearing?
The age that the human brain is considered to be fully mature and developed.
What is 25 years old?
The desire to have something that belongs to someone else
What is jealousy?
This is an area set aside to allow someone to sit and relax when feeling overwhelmed
What is a calm corner/space?
This strategy uses the arms of another person wrapped around you tightly
What is hugs?
This sense interprets flavors via the tongue.
What is taste?
Named after a reptile, this part of the brain is the oldest and controls our fear response
The lizard brain
The ability to stop and think before acting
What is impulse control?
This coping method allows the mind to focus on words and can spark imagination or curiosity
What is reading a book?
This strategy focuses on helping another person, and you both get to feel good
What is an act of kindness?
This sense involves the largest organ in the body.
What is touch?
The part of the brain that controls decision making and problem solving?
What is the pre-frontal cortex?