What Is Neuroplasticity?
The brain’s ability to change and learn.
What is neuroplasticity?
Practice helps the brain get better at something.
What is learning?
Habits happen because the brain likes routines.
What are patterns?
Big feelings can make clear thinking harder.
What is stress?
One small action repeated daily can help the brain do this.
What is change?
Neuroplasticity means the brain can make new ___.
What are connections?
The brain learns best by doing, not just thinking.
What is practice?
Doing the same thing over and over makes habits this.
What is stronger?
Calming skills help the brain feel this.
What is safe?
This makes neuroplasticity stronger: intensity or consistency?
What is consistency?
This shows the brain can change at any age.
What is learning?
Making mistakes helps the brain do this.
What is learn?
Unhelpful habits don’t disappear — they need to be this.
What is replaced?
Practicing coping skills helps feelings change over time.
What is regulation?
This explains why “fake it till you make it” can actually work.
What is behavior shaping brain pathways?
Doing something many times makes this happen in the brain.
What is strengthening pathways?
Repeating a skill makes it feel easier over time because of this.
What is brain change?
This explains why habits can feel automatic.
What is repetition?
This explains why recovery can feel uncomfortable at first.
What is the brain rewiring away from familiar patterns?
This principle explains why doing the opposite of an urge can weaken the urge over time.
What is pathway weakening through non-use?
This phrase means that repeated thoughts or behaviors shape the brain.
What is “neurons that fire together wire together”?
This explains why skills feel awkward before they feel natural.
What is the brain building new pathways?
To change a habit, the brain needs this, not just stopping.
What is a new habit?
Strong emotions can temporarily reduce access to this brain area.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
Recovery works because the brain can do this.
What is change?