🛡️ Student Mental Health Series *coming soon
Course overview
Lesson Overview

9.05 – What Happens in Your Brain During a Crisis: During a crisis, your brain’s alarm system—the amygdala—takes charge, pushing out logic and flooding your body with adrenaline. Your heart races, your muscles tighten, and your thoughts blur because your body is preparing to fight, flee, or freeze. This automatic reaction helps in real danger but becomes harmful when it stays switched on. Understanding how the brain’s emergency circuits work helps you reclaim control afterward. Once you know that shaking, crying, or zoning out are biological responses, not personal failures, you can learn to guide your recovery. Deep breathing, stretching, and naming what’s real right now tell your brain the threat is over. With practice, you train your nervous system to return to balance faster. Each time you calm yourself, you strengthen new brain pathways that replace panic with awareness and peace.

About this course

Trauma-informed mental wellness lessons that help students manage emotions, build resilience, and stay safe in real-world situations—like bullying, grief, violence, and poverty. Built for schools, youth programs, and Medicaid-compliant services.

This course includes:
  • Step-by-step guidance for handling social pressure, conflict, and unsafe situations
  • Stories and messages that encourage students to speak up, stay safe, and take control of their future
  • Flexible learning options for classrooms, after-school programs, and independent use

Our platform is HIPAA, Medicaid, Medicare, and GDPR-compliant. We protect your data with secure systems, never sell your information, and only collect what is necessary to support your care and wellness. learn more

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