Calm Down Corner
Listening to this can alter your brainwave speed, lower your heart rate, and immediately change your emotional state.
What is Music
This type of statement focuses on the speaker's feelings rather than blaming the listener, typically starting with "I feel..."
To allow for proper digestion, you should stop eating large meals this many hours before trying to fall asleep.
What is 2 to 3 hours.
Expecting the absolute worst-case scenario
Example: Thinking, "If I don't get the dance solo, my whole life is ruined," is an example of blowing things out of proportion.
What is Catastrophizing
This traditional Japanese dish features seasoned vinegared rice, often served with raw seafood and seaweed.
What is Sushi
In this 1982 Steven Spielberg film, Elliot famously uses Reese's Pieces to lure a stranded alien out of hiding.
What is E.T. the Extra - Terrestrial
This written activity allows you to externalize your private thoughts, track emotional triggers, and clarify your feelings.
What is Journaling
This communication technique involves repeating back what you heard in your own words to ensure accurate understanding.
What is Active Listening aka "Paraprhasing"
Taking one of these hot, relaxing personal care steps 1 to 2 hours before bed can help lower your core body temperature and induce sleepiness.
What is a shower or bath
These short, positive statements are repeated to challenge negative or self-sabotaging thoughts.
What are positive affirmations
This is the only natural food that never spoils, thanks to its low moisture and high acidity.
Hint: Bears tend to consume this.
What is Honey
Tied with Ben-Hur and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, this 1997 disaster epic holds the record for the most Oscar wins with 11 statuettes.
What is Titanic
This deep breathing technique involves breathing in for 4 seconds, holding for 4 seconds, exhaling for 4 seconds, and holding again for 4 seconds.
What is Box Breathing, aka "Square" breathing
Crossing arms, rolling eyes, and sighing are forms of this silent communication that can escalate a conflict.
What is nonverbal communication (or body language)
This type of light, emitted in large amounts by smartphones, tablets, and TVs, tricks your brain into thinking it is daytime, thereby halting melatonin production.
What is Blue Light
This cognitive skill involves identifying negative thoughts and actively challenging them with realistic, evidence-based alternatives.
What is Cognitive Reframing (or restructuring)
This fictional, rectangular frozen seafood snack is the favorite food of SpongeBob SquarePants.
What is a Krabby Patty
Agents K and J use a sleek, silver device called a "Neuralyzer" to wipe the memories of civilian bystanders in this sci-fi franchise.
What is Men In Black
This physical coping mechanism involves tensing a specific muscle group for a few seconds and then consciously releasing the tension.
What is Progressive Muscle Relaxation
This style is a middle-ground approach where both sides give up something to reach a quick, mutually acceptable agreement.
What is compromising
If you have been tossing and turning in bed, sleep hygiene guidelines recommend getting out of bed and doing a quiet activity elsewhere for this period of time.
What is 15-20 minutes (15-30 minutes is also acceptable)
Focusing only on the negative details of a day while completely ignoring the positive things that happened.
What is Ignoring The Positive aka "Mental Filtering"
This massive annual competitive eating event takes place on July 4th at Coney Island, New York.
What is Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest
Though he didn't receive a single dollar in salary for directing this 1993 Holocaust drama, Steven Spielberg won his first Best Director Oscar for it.
What is Schindler's List
This physical, non-verbal outlet uses rhythm and movement to express and release trapped trauma or stress.
What is Dance aka movement therapy
This "win-lose" style features high assertiveness and low cooperation, where one person pursues their own concerns at the other's expense.
What is competing
True or False: You can successfully make up for a week of bad sleep hygiene by "sleeping in" on Saturday and Sunday.
What is False (Sleeping in disrupts your internal clock for the upcoming week)
This type of coping strategy focuses on changing the actual situation causing the stress, rather than just managing the emotions.
What is Problem Focused Coping
This classic Canadian dish consists of french fries topped with cheese curds and brown gravy.
What is Poutine
In The Big Lebowski, the main character is incredibly protective of this household item because it "really tied the room together".
What is a rug