Communication
You may decide to take this when you know you are getting too angry to continue the conversation. The trick with this is that you specify a time to come back to the conversation.
What is a time out?
Things we can do to help us when we are feeling a lot of big emotions, specifically emotions such as anger, anxiety, or stress.
What are coping skills or calm down skills?
This is an example of a milestone that you have experienced.
What is (any milestone)?
The addictive chemical in cigarettes and vapes.
What is nicotine?
Judging someone based on outward appearance before knowing anything about them.
What is prejudice/discrimination/stereotyping?
When you use your body language such as head nods and eye contact to let the speaker know that you are listening.
What is active listening?
An effect of long-term stress on the body
What is constant headaches, problems sleeping, shortness of breath, etc.?
You have this over your choices.
What is control/power?
The only thing that can assist in sobering someone up.
What we think is good, desirable, and important to us.
What are values?
You may use this when wanting to express your feelings about a topic but not wanting to use attacking language.
What is an I statement or an XYZ statement?
The icy example that describes that most of our anger is below the surface.
What is the anger iceberg theory?
We made these during this lesson to sketch out what our life has looked like so far.
What is a personal road map?
The part of the brain which alcohol affects.
What is all of the brain?
This is an example of where our values come from.
What are parents/church/society/peers, etc.?
When you repeat back to the speaker what he/she just said in your own words to confirm that you understood them correctly.
What is reflective listening?
This is an example of a hidden issue in the Yellowstone analogy.
What is acceptance, respect, control, power, etc.?
This is the example used to describe how much freedom to choose one may have.
The legal driving limit for BAC.
What is .08%?
The sum of the characteristics and behavior patterns of a specific group of people.
What is culture?
This is when something is getting in the way of the message being communicated.
What is interference?
The part of the brain that controls our fight, flight, or freeze response.
What is the amygdala?
This is one of the problem solving techniques described in this lesson.
What is the four-step problem solving technique/S.T.A.R.?
A drug which slows our body down.
This is one of the three types of values.
What is ideas/material/experiences?