Healthy Relationships
Reactive communication often escalates this.
What is conflict?
This step involves generating multiple solutions without judging them.
What is brainstorm?
This part of the brain acts as the alarm system and triggers fight, flight, or freeze. It reacts without thinking
What is the amygdala?
This skill helps you manage thoughts, emotions, and behaviors in service of long-term goals rather than short-term relief.
What is self-regulation?
This NFL Team is the Star of the NFC East and is going to be a Super Bowl Contender next year.
Who are the Dallas Cowboys
Connection helps regulate this system in the body.
What is the nervous system?
When emotions take over, we often do this instead of problem-solving.
What is avoid or procrastinate?
This brain area stores memories and emotions together and can pull old feelings into new situations.
What is the hippocampus?
Relapse begins long before substances are used, starting with this stage.
What is emotional relapse?
This foundational recovery book, often called the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonynous, was first published in this year.
What is 1939?
Supportive people act as “extra” of these resources.
What are bioenergetic resources?
Good problem-solving is about progress, not this.
What is perfection?
This part of the brain helps you pause, reason, and weigh consequences but goes offline when emotions overwhelm.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
Reacting is automatic, fast, and emotion-driven. This alternative is intentional, slower, and goal-aligned.
What is responding?
Gen Z uses this slang phrase when someone is making a valid point in a passionate, confident way and people are saying, “Don’t interrupt… this is going somewhere.”
What is “let him cook”?
This communication style avoids conflict but often builds resentment.
What is passive communication?
The first step in the problem-solving model is to do this.
What is define the problem?
When stress or trauma is repeated, the alarm system becomes this.
What is hypersensitive?
When emotions are not regulated, thinking becomes this and behavior starts following feelings instead of values.
What is distorted?
This U.S. state is known as the “Crossroads of America” because more interstate highways pass through it than any other state.
What is Indiana?
This theory says humans are wired to assume we are not alone, and connection lowers stress.
What is Social Baseline Theory?
This final step focuses on follow-through and action.
What is implement the plan?
This music-based regulation strategy starts by matching your current emotional state and then gradually guides you toward a steadier, more regulated state instead of forcing a mood change.
What is the ISO playlist?
Self-regulation often weakens first in the body, thoughts, and this third area.
What are behaviors?
This everyday food never spoils and has been found still edible in ancient Egyptian tombs.
What is honey?