Brain Basics
This side of the brain is more logical, language-based, and analytical.
What is the Left Hemisphere?
When we “flip our lid,” this part goes offline.
What is the Prefrontal Cortex?
This response looks like anger, snapping, or controlling.
This term means your nervous system automatically scans for safety or danger.
What is Neuroception?
This state is calm, connected, and social.
What is Ventral Vagal (safe/connected)
This side is more emotional, present focused, and picks up social and non-verbal cues.
What is the Right Hemisphere?
This system is responsible for feeling, known as the "feeling brain" as well as memories, habits, and attachment.
What is the Limbic System?
Avoiding, leaving, distracting, or staying busy.
Does neuroception happen consciously or automatically?
What is Automatically
This state includes anxiety, fight/flight, and mobilization.
What is sympathetic?
This lobe helps you notice body sensations like tension, temperature, and movement and helps with reading writing, and math.
What is the Parietal Lobe?
Flipping your lid means you lose access to this ability.
What is clear thinking, regulation, and rational decision making?
Feeling stuck, blank, or unable to act.
What is Freeze?
True or False: Only physical danger triggers the nervous system.
What is False?
This state includes shutdown, numbness, and low energy.
What is the Dorsal Vagal?
This lobe stores emotional memories, helps give meaning to experiences, feelings, and understanding language.
What is the Temporal Lobe?
True or False: When flipped, skills disappear because you forgot them.
People pleasing or over-apologizing to stay safe.
What is Fawn?
Name two things that can signal safety to the nervous system.
What are eye contact, calm voice, connection, predictability, environment?
The goal is not to stay in ventral forever but to do this.
What is return to or come back to safely?
This part of the brain helps with impulse control, planning, and emotional regulation.
What is the Prefrontal Cortex?
What brings the thinking brain back online first?
What is safety or feeling safe?
Numb, exhausted, disconnected, “what’s the point.”
Which reacts first: body or thinking brain?
What is our body?
“States, not traits” means this.
What is temporary body states, not personality flaws?