Coping Skills
Talking to this kind of person can help decrease intense emotions.
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.
What type of response is it called when we feel unable to move?
Freeze response
When someone violates out physical boundaries and causes our body hard.
_ in every 4 girls experience sexual abuse between the ages of 0 and 18.
1
This is an activity that people participate in a group that usually have teams.
Sports
The emotional part of our brain that responds to fear is called the?
Amygdala
What type of response is it when we feel the need to run away, avoid, ignore, or distract from the trauma?
Flight
When a caregiver does not take adequate care of us when we are too young or too ill to do so ourselves.
Trauma can impact the way we _____ in school.
Learn
Listening to _____ can help relax our mind.
Music
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
What type of response is it called when we feel like fighting, yelling, or pushing people away to avoid the trauma?
Fight
When someone uses threatening language toward us, shames us, makes us feel less than, or intimidates us.
Emotional abuse
Trauma can impact ______
Everyone
Guided _______ helps us calm down when we are thinking about something we don't want to.
Imagery
A brain that has been traumatized looks out for danger and can get stuck in this type of response.
Fight, flight, freeze
When someone sees, hears, smells, feels, or tastes something that reminds them of trauma their response might be to _____, ______, or ______.
Fight, flight, or freeze
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
Trauma sends these chemicals through out body which causes anxiety, stress, tight muscles, body aches, trouble sleeping, etc.
Cortisol and Adrenaline
Tensing our muscles and then relaxing them by muscle group is also called _______ ______ ___________
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Heal
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
When the adults in our home are fighting, threatening each other, using power/intimidation to control each other, or throwing/hitting things.
Domestic Violence
Trauma does not
define us