Name That Emotion
Coping Skills
The Body & Brain
Triggers/Reactions
Just For Fun
100

This uncomfortable emotion arises when you believe others are judging you negatively often leading to avoidance or hiding?

What is Shame? 

100
This breathing exercise involves breathing in for 4 seconds, holding for 4 seconds, exhaling for 4 seconds, holding for 4 seconds. 

What is box breathing?

100

When you take slow, deep breaths, the body signals safety to the brain by stretching receptors in this organ?

What are the lungs?

100

This is the first step in the emotion chain: the event or situation that sparks your emotional response. 

What is a Trigger?

100

This US state is known as the "Sunshine State".

What is Florida? 

200

When two contradictory emotions occur at the same once- such as happiness for a friends success and sadness for a friend's success but sadness for your own loss- you are experiencing this state. 

What is Ambivalence? 

200

This strategy builds long term resilience by focusing on daily practices like sleep, nutrition, exercise, and social connection. 

What is Self Care?

200

This front part of your brain helps with impulse control, decision making, and calming strong emotions. 

What is the frontal cortex?

200

This type of trigger often comes from inside the body, like hunger, fatigue, or pain. 

What is an internal trigger?

200

This U.S. President is featured on the $2 bill. 

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

300

When someone avoids close relationships out of fear of being rejected or abandoned, they often struggle with this painful emotion?

What is Loneliness?

300

When urges feel overwhelming, this skill teaches you to "Ride the Wave" instead of fighting or giving in. 

What is Urge Surfing? 

300

When emotions are well managed, the brain stays in a balanced state often called the "window of _____". 

What is tolerance?

300

Your heard racing, stomach tightening, or palms sweating are examples of these physical signs or emotions. 

What are body cues/physical reactions?
300

This U.S. State has the most active volcanos. 

What is Alaska?

400

This emotion combines anger and sadness, often showing up when someone feels both hurt and wronged by another's actions? 

What is resentment? 
400

This coping strategy involves writing down worries or emotions then shredding, burning, or tearing the paper as a way to release feelings.  

What is Journalling/Expressive Writing?

400

This stress hormone is released by the adrenal glands and helps the body prepare to respond to threats. 

What is cortisol? 

400

This defense mechanism involves blaming others for your own uncomfortable feelings or reactions? 

What is projection? 
400

This famous Austrian composer wrote twinkle, twinkle, little star as a set of variations. 

Who is Mozart? 

500
This moral emotion often arises after realizing you violated you own values, and can lead to rumination or attempts to "make things rights"?

What is Guilt? 

500

What does the Acronym "HALT" stand for?  

What is...

Hungry 

Angry 

Lonely 

Tired?

500
This part of the brain acts as the "Relay station", sending sensory information to other brain regions for processing. 

What is the Thalamus? 

500

When someone experiences the same emotional reaction in different situations, it's often because of this conditioned learning process. 

What is Classical Conditioning? 

500

The powerhouse of the cell, this organelle generates ATP through cellular respiration. 

What is mitochondrion?