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The part of the brain responsible for learning and reasoning
What is the cortex?
Everyday stressors happen in this range. Emotions like disappointed, annoyed, irritated, offended, frustrated.
What is 0-20 on the anger scale?
These kinds of words increase our anger
What are fire words?
Do triggers happen at the start or end of the Anger Sequence?
Triggers happen at the START of the Anger Sequence.
The part of the brain responsible for emotions
What is the limbic system?
In this range, we feel emotions like mad, upset, angry, p***ed off, exasperated
What is 20-80 on the anger scale?
These kinds of words lower our anger and help us feel more calm
What are water words?
These are traumatic childhood events that can trigger stress and anger even when we're grown
ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences)
The part of the brain in charge of safety. Our reptilian (lizard) brain.
What is the brain stem?
We experience emotions like infuriated, raging, so angry that you could explode, f***ing p***ed, “seeing red” in this range
What is the 80-100 range?
True or False: self talk does not help to reduce our stress and anger
False: self talk DOES help to reduce our stress and anger
What are examples of triggers?
stress, disrespect, embarrassment, arguing, feeling overwhelmed
True or False: Anger makes it harder to access our cortex
TRUE: Anger does make it harder to access reasoning through our cortex
In this range, anger is manageable and we can use our tools (like self talk) to calm down.
What is the 20-80 range?
The term means how we speak to ourselves
What is self talk?
True or False: Choices are the step before the Anger Threshold in the Anger Sequence Model
FALSE: Choices happen after the Anger Threshold