Neuroplasticity
The brain's ability to change, grow, and rewire itself.
What is neuroplasticity?
A person asks you to copy your homework, and you feel uncomfortable but say yes anyway because you are afraid they won't like you. This indicates a leak in this personal structure.
What is a boundary?
True or False: Experiencing a mental health struggle or high anxiety means that a person is weak.
What is false?
According to the valued framework, this type of self-worth does not have to be earned, proven, or bought.
What is inherent (or unconditional) worth/value?
In our pipe cleaner activity, this color represented the old, automatic, paved highways in the brain.
What is red?
Your group chat starts roasting a friend who isn't in the chat. A healthy move would be to do this.
Shut it down, leave the group chat, check on your friend.
This is linked to double the risk of experiencing symptoms of depression and anxiety.
What is social media?
This is one of the 5 tools you can use to boost neuroplasticity and it is one of Ava's favorites.
What is expressive writing?
True or False: Once a brain has experienced trauma or negative cycles, it is permanently locked into those patterns and cannot change.
What is false?
This internal voice tries to convince you that you have to be perfect to be loved, or that you aren't good enough.
What is your inner critic?
True or False: Teen boys and teen girls process and show emotions and mental health issues in the exact same physical and emotional ways.
What is False? (Boys often externalize - anger, behavior - ADHD,conduct disorder, substance abuse; girls often internalize - perfectionism, people pleasing - depression/anxiety).
This phrase describes the conscious choice you make when you decide a painful pattern stops with you.
What is breaking the cycle?
This is the term for the brain's ability to prune away old, unused pathways when we stop repeating a bad habit or negative thought cycle.
What is pruning?
When dealing with stress, this specific coping strategy involves intentionally focusing on 5 things you can see, 4 you can touch, 3 you can hear, 2 you can smell, and 1 you can taste.
What is the 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique?
Statistically, this percentage of youth ages 6-17 have a mental health disorder in the U.S.
What is 16.5% of 1 in 7 youth?
Finish this defining quote from the Valued Workshop: People may interrupt your story but...
What is..."They can't erase what you've already written because you are the author of your own story"?