Coping Skills
A coping skill where you take slow breaths to calm your body...
What is deep breathing?
Changing a negative thought into a more helpful one...
What is reframing?
When you feel very anxious, upset, or overloaded...
What is hyperarousal?
When you feel threatened, your response is to prepare yourself to confront the danger...
What is 'fight'?
A basketball hoop is ____ feet tall...
What is 10 feet?
A skill where you focus on what you see, hear, and feel to stay present...
What is grounding?
Being able to bounce back after something hard...
What is resilience?
When you feel numb, tired, or shut down...
What is hypoarousal?
When you feel threatened, you run away from the danger...
What is 'flight'?
The Utah Jazz is a league of _______ players...
What are basketball players?
Writing thoughts and feelings in a notebook to feel better...
What is journaling?
A person who listens, supports you, and helps you feel safe...
What is a trusted support person?
The zone where you feel calm and able to think clearly...
What is the Window of Tolerance?
When you feel threatened, you feel like you can't move or do anything...
What is 'freeze?"
A 'love' is a score in...
What is tennis?
Doing something you enjoy- like art, music, or walking - to cope with stress...
What is a healthy distraction?
Setting a small goal and taking one step toward it...
What is problem-solving?
Connection between what you do, feel, and think...
What is the cognitive triangle/connections between thoughts, behaviors and feelings?
When someone has experienced trauma, levels of stress hormones...
An NFL football weighs....
What is one pound?
OPEN ANSWER: toss out your favorite coping mechanism!
ANYTHING
Staying hopeful even when things are tough...
What is optimism?
When something happens that overwhelms your ability to cope...
What is trauma?
OPEN ANSWER: toss out a strength of value you have that keeps you 'on the road' when you're 'driving the bus'!
ANYTHING
The most decorated Olympian of all time is...