Coping Skills
Trauma Brain
Fight, Flight, Freeze
Types of Trauma
Trauma Facts
100

Talking to this kind of person can help decrease intense emotions. 

A Trusted Person
100

When we are experiencing trauma our brain has a hard time with remembering what?

Important parts of what happened (timing, who was there, what we did, what others did, where everyone was, what time it was, etc.

100

What type of response is it called when we feel unable to move?

Freeze response

100

When someone violates out physical boundaries and causes our body hard.

Physical abuse
100

_ in every 4 girls experience sexual abuse between the ages of 0 and 18. 

1

200

This is an activity that people participate in a group that usually have teams.

Sports

200

The emotional part of our brain that responds to fear is called the? 

Amygdala 

200

What type of response is it when we feel the need to run away, avoid, ignore, or distract from the trauma?

Flight

200

When a caregiver does not take adequate care of us when we are too young or too ill to do so ourselves.

Neglect
200

Trauma can impact the way we _____ in school. 

Learn

300

Listening to _____ can help relax our mind.

Music

300

When we have experiences trauma our brain tries to help us not avoid it by causing us to have these types of thoughts and memories.

Intrusive 

300

What type of response is it called when we feel like fighting, yelling, or pushing people away to avoid the trauma?

Fight

300

When someone uses threatening language toward us, shames us, makes us feel less than, or intimidates us. 

Emotional abuse

300

Trauma can impact ______

Everyone

400

Guided _______ helps us calm down when we are thinking about something we don't want to. 

Imagery

400

A brain that has been traumatized looks out for danger and can get stuck in this type of response.

Fight, flight, freeze

400

When someone sees, hears, smells, feels, or tastes something that reminds them of trauma their response might be to _____, ______, or ______.

Fight, flight, or freeze

400

When someone violates our sexual boundaries or exposes us to inappropriate sexual content when we are too young to consent, do not consent, or do not know what is being exposed to us. 

Sexual abuse

400

Trauma sends these chemicals through out body which causes anxiety, stress, tight muscles, body aches, trouble sleeping, etc. 

Cortisol and Adrenaline 

500

Tensing our muscles and then relaxing them by muscle group is also called _______ ______ ___________

Progressive Muscle Relaxation 

500
Despite trauma and the way our brain reacts our brains are able to ____!!

Heal

500

When we have trouble building trust and safety in relationships, this is an example of our brain being stuck in what type of response?

Fight/Flight

500

When the adults in our home are fighting, threatening each other, using power/intimidation to control each other, or throwing/hitting things. 

Domestic Violence 

500

Trauma does not

define us