🧘🏽 Emotional Regulation & Coping Skills *coming soon *coming soon
Course overview
Lesson Overview

14.3 – How Stress Impacts the Brain and Body: Stress changes how your brain and body communicate. When you feel pressure, your brain signals your body to release hormones like cortisol and adrenaline. These chemicals speed up your heart, tighten muscles, and make you ready to fight or flee. That’s helpful in short bursts, but long-term stress keeps your body stuck in survival mode. This can weaken your immune system, affect your sleep, and even make it harder to focus or remember things. The brain’s emotion center, called the amygdala, becomes overactive, while the part that helps you think clearly—the prefrontal cortex—slows down. This is why it’s hard to make calm decisions when you’re overwhelmed. Chronic stress can also affect digestion, skin, and mood stability. But the good news is that your brain can recover with proper rest, support, and healthy coping skills. When you learn to calm your body, your brain begins to follow. Understanding these connections helps you care for yourself from the inside out. Your body is not your enemy—it’s trying to protect you, and you can help it by creating moments of calm.

About this course

Strategies to manage emotions effectively, build resilience, and respond to challenges with balance and control.

This course includes:
  • Guided mindfulness and emotional regulation exercises
  • Coping strategy planners and reflection tools
  • Real-world scenarios to practice emotional management skills

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