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This lesson introduces key concepts from the neuroscience of stress and early adversity in order to contextualize how certain emotional, cognitive, and bodily responses can develop across the lifespan.

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This lesson proposes a framework for understanding how different forms of childhood adversity can influence personality development, emotional patterns, and ways of relating to others throughout life.

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This lesson examines how adverse childhood experiences can impact long-term physical and mental health through neurobiological, hormonal, immunological, and epigenetic mechanisms.

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This lesson explores how adverse childhood experiences can give rise to persistent negative thought patterns and how these influence self-perception, relationships, and decision-making in adulthood.

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This lesson explores how people develop specific ways of emotionally adapting to early experiences and how these adaptations influence relationships with oneself and others in adulthood.

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This lesson examines the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and violence in intimate partner relationships, considering individual, relational, and intergenerational factors that shape these patterns.

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This lesson explores how early attachment experiences are registered in the body and nervous system, and how these imprints may be felt today in the ways we bond, seek support, and respond to emotional closeness.

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This lesson invites reflection on how connection—with oneself, with others, and with the world—is experienced based on patterns formed in childhood as adaptive responses to relational experiences.

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This lesson invites exploration of how intimacy, trust, and alliance with others are experienced, based on relational patterns formed as adaptive responses to early experiences.

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This lesson invites reflection on how empathy is experienced and how contact with others’ emotions may feel like closeness, overload, or disconnection, depending on prior relational experiences.

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This lesson invites exploration of how safety is experienced when receiving affection or support, considering early learning, commonly activated fears, and the possibility of gradually expanding closeness with others.

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Explore personal agency as the capacity to recognize options and choose how to respond, even when situations cannot be fully controlled.

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Recognize automatic patterns and regain direction through more conscious observation of thoughts, emotions, and actions.

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Explore how identity and emotional independence are experienced, drawing on separation–individuation processes and patterns that may have formed early in development.

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Explore how personal control and emotional responsibility are experienced and how they influence responses to life events.

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Explore how self-awareness and self-understanding are experienced, as well as one’s relationship with introspection, uncertainty, and personal learning.

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Practice mindful observation of internal changes as a way to strengthen self-awareness and personal agency.

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Recognize emotions (anger, anxiety, sadness, and emotional pain) as signals and explore how they manifest in you in order to respond with greater clarity and inner safety.

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Understand how different patterns of internal organization shape emotional responses, relationships, and adaptation to stress.

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Explore how you experience emotional self-regulation, identifying patterns of balance, overload, or dependence on external regulation, and understanding their adaptive function.

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Practice a simple strategy to generate a sense of calm and inner safety during moments of emotional activation.

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Practice gentle bilateral stimulation to reinforce the sense of calm from the “safe place,” observing its effects and adjusting the pace according to your response.

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Differentiate between what is and is not under your control in stressful situations, and identify practical, mental, and restorative resources to respond with greater flexibility.

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Apply a structured four-step strategy to manage intense emotions and respond with greater clarity during high emotional activation.

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Recognize emotional, relational, and physical signals that indicate the need for rest or care, and respond to them in a timely manner.

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Understand how present-day situations can activate emotional memories from the past and learn to differentiate them from the here and now.

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Understand how triggers work, how avoidance reinforces them, and how their impact can be reduced by reclaiming agency in the present.

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Learn to identify automatic negative cognitions and formulate more realistic and constructive alternatives to expand freedom of response in activating situations.

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Identify automatic negative cognitions, understand their origins, and practice generating more realistic and functional alternative thoughts.

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Learn how to use the SICER Log to observe, organize, and understand emotional reactions by identifying patterns among current situations, beliefs, and bodily responses.

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Apply the spiral technique to reduce the intensity of mild to moderate distressing emotions using guided imagery and body-based attention.

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Use positive memories as an internal resource to generate well-being and observe how current emotional states influence access to emotional memory.

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Understand what executive functions are, how they can be influenced by adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and recognize their impact on academic and everyday life.

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Apply practical strategies to sustain concentration on a task, recognizing cognitive, emotional, and contextual factors that affect attentional focus.

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Design a personal planning and time-organization system that translates real priorities into sustainable actions and reduces overload and anxiety.

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Apply practical strategies to slow down automatic impulses and make decisions more aligned with personal and academic goals.

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Apply simple strategies to remember tasks, steps, and procedures at the right moment, using encoding techniques and external supports to reduce forgetfulness and distraction-related errors.

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Apply psychological flexibility to recognize when a strategy is no longer effective and adjust it in real time.

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Apply realistic and sustainable sleep hygiene habits to maintain rest routines that improve attention, memory, emotional regulation, and academic performance.