Mind and Body
This type of nutrient helps build and repair muscles after a hard workout.
What is protein?
This grounding technique uses your senses by finding 5 things you can see, 4 you can touch, 3 hear, 2 smell, and 1 taste.
What is the 5-4-3-2-1 method?
This common emotion often gets a bad reputation, but it actually serves as a boundary marker to show us when something feels unfair.
What is anger?
This two-letter word is the most basic tool for setting a healthy boundary with others.
What is "No"?
Professor Plum, a candlestick, and the Library are potential solutions in this classic murder-mystery board game.
What is Clue?
This is the chemical messenger in the brain often called the "feel-good" hormone, which is boosted by physical exercise.
What is dopamine (or serotonin)?
This coping category involves activities like drawing, journaling, or playing music to safely express difficult emotions.
What is creative expression?
This is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person
What is empathy?
This is the recommended amount of sleep for adults 18+ need per night to support emotional regulation and brain development.
What is 7-9 hours?
This red planet is the fourth one from our Sun.
What is Mars?
This physical response happens when stress causes your muscles to tighten up, often leading to headaches or shoulder pain.
What is muscle tension?
This practice involves focusing completely on the present moment without judging your thoughts or feelings.
What is mindfulness?
This term describes a sudden, intense wave of fear that peaks within minutes and causes physical symptoms like shortness of breath.
What is a panic attack?
Taking a break from this specific daily activity has been proven to significantly lower anxiety and comparison traps in adults.
What is social media?
This ocean is the largest body of water on the planet.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Often called your "second brain," this bodily system produces about 95% of your body's serotonin and is deeply impacted by your stress levels.
What is the gut (or digestive system)?
This strategy involves stepping away from a stressful situation to change your focus, like counting to ten or taking a walk.
What is a distraction (or time-out)?
This is the psychological term for a situation, word, or memory that instantly sparks a strong emotional or traumatic reaction.
What is a trigger?
This is the unhealthy habit of ignoring your own needs just to make other people happy or avoid conflict.
What is people-pleasing (co-dependency)?
Due to its massive size, it is the only country in the world that is also classified as a continent.
What is Australia?
This part of the brain acts as the emotional alarm system and triggers the fight-or-flight response.
What is the amygdala?
This is the practice of consciously changing negative or unhelpful thoughts into more realistic, balanced ones.
What is cognitive reframing (or thought challenging)?
This concept explains that emotions are temporary states that peak and fade away, much like these natural ocean occurrences.
What are waves?
This is the psychological term for treating yourself with the same kindness and understanding you would show a friend who is struggling.
What is self-compassion?
This continent holds the highest number of countries in the world.
What is Africa?